text: how do we as a society go about making marijuana legal? i am strongly for the idea of marijuana being legal. but still controlled. how do we as a society go about changing the laws to make it legal. also how can it be legal in colorado but not everywere else in the us? what do we need to do to change things? alcohol kills people every day. weed does not. i think that alcohol should be the illegal one... i know that i will get negitive responces to this one and if you are against this read this...  http://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm i think a lot of it being legal depends on the tobacco companies. it's simply competition for them if weed is sold legally. and since they have so much lobbying power it would be hard.  but i somewhat agree with you on this one. people will smoke weed regardless if it's legal or not, so why not take control of it and legalize it and make them pay for it and tax it?