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The Marijuana legalization lobby has been held down for years by the use of one term, "Drug Legalization". It makes me cringe when I hear a proponent or an opponent of marijuana legalization refer to it as legalizing drugs. When you lump a relatively harmless substance in the same group as substances that can take your life the first time you try it it plays right into the hand of the opponents of said legislation. It is much the same here, although I will probably get flamed for this analogy. If we poker players do not distance ourselves from other forms of gambling our cause will always have that cloud over it of being lumped into one category and it is not that simple.