It's interesting that when drug companies are trying to sell a drug, they call addiction a dependence when it's really basically the same thing.
I just looked up the study I mentioned before. I would like to get it on the record, Madam Chair. It was a study by Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. This was under a Democratic president, the most liberal president since Jimmy Carter. This was from May 2003. The conclusion of the study was that marijuana was the drug most commonly linked to crime. Among adult males arrested for crimes in five major cities across the United States, 80% tested positive for at least one illegal drug. Marijuana was the most common, and it ranged from 37% to 58%. They did urinalysis, etc.
Surely you can recognize the misery suffered by the victims of these crimes and recognize the link between marijuana use and crime.