Moral Responsiblility

Our tax dollars pay the salaries of elected officials who claim that the marijuana laws were passed as their moral responsibility to protect the people from themselves. I don't know about anyone else, but I believe before someone can claim moral responsibility they have to have the morals to be able to accept responsibility for their actions and decisions. Our elected officials have documentation proving that marijuana is a safer and less dangerous affordable natural option to alcohol and the so called approved medications. So I ask this:  Knowing marijuana is safer and less dangerous than alcohol and ignoring that knowledge, isn't that the same as intentional or negligent endangerment?
I find it degrading and humiliating that our tax dollars pay the salaries of officials who have passed and enforce a law that defines my ability to be recognized as a respectable and responsible citizen by whether or not I accept their opinion of what I can possess to consume as the right choice and only choice for me.
Our leaders keep implying they want a more educated and responsible citizens, yet at the same time people are continually being treated as criminals  for using the knowledge and information we have available, mostly in part to the advances of science and technology. We also can't forget history and how educational it is.
Personally, I having a difficult time understanding how the possession of marijuana should have any bearing on our ability to be recognized as respectable and responsible citizens. I mean if you take in consideration the amount of damage and number of deaths associated with the products our government has approved as the only legal options. Surely you can't be expected to accept them as the right options for everyone.
Statistically speaking it is proven that even those items are abused and more addictive than marijuana. Just because more people use marijuana doesn't mean it's being abused. It just means more people are wanting better choices or options. People are starting to return to the grass root (no put intended) ideas that this country was based on.