My major reason for supporting legalization is that when you legalize marijuana, you decrease the incentive for police to search cars, most of the time by tricking people into giving voluntary consent, so that's a good thing.

On the other hand, smoking marijuana all day is most definitely not a good thing. I never really thought about the health benefits.

Very little research is even allowed as it is a schedule I drug. Further, all the research I've read still points to it being significantly less dangerous than alcohol.

To be honest, I have trouble trusting most of the research due to the political nature.