Then where should the line for 'potential' be drawn, hypocrite? That social need outweighs the liberty of the individual is the train you are on, and if so keep trucking all the way to China. We currently aren't regulating a damn thing, the pushers are. So we still do MORE potential harm by allowing a black market to thrive than to regulate a legal substance, regardless of what it might be.

As long as there is an appetite for it, people will find ways to get it because it does what they want it to do. By making a differentiation between 'soft' and 'hard' you really only make the 'bad' drugs worse.