I bet your only exposure to marijuana was watching reefer madness as a kid and believing it.
Funny, you are wrong. I never watched such theatrics, but I did watch several friends go down the road to oblivion and even death. Did a bit of research over the years- MJ is THE gateway drug and a destroyer on its own merit.
If a component of MJ s useful, then it, like opiods etc can be extracted and prescribed or even OTC. Smoking a doobie ain’t medicine, just tom foolery.
I am all for liberty with responsibility- however, when the activity by nature removes the actors’ responsibility context from the equation (as research by so many well respected sources describe consistently), it is violating the social compact- and is as it ought to be- a crime or tort. Alcohol and others notwithstanding.
Now go hide behind a tree in a dark parking lot and buy for an illegal substance (from a trafficker who violates many laws and puts many others at risk of violence-for the love of your money) that can alter your brain chemistry for life, lowers your ability reason and exposes you to several well known dangerous side components- just make sure you don’t harm me or mine.
Blessings.