Bunk, it is a brain altering drug with negative effects for regular users.
I still remember my mom working prison ministry and finding all the violent offenders were pretty much always major pot users.
It is a drug. Best used for the real patient dying from a cancer or other illness of that magnitude. The rest of those trying to jump the train to use pot are simple drug addicts.
So is alcohol. But it is also chemically addictive and causes permanent damage to EVERY organ in EVERY abuser. There has not been ANY damage shown from the chemicals in pot to ANY cell in ANY user at ANY dose.
"I still remember my mom working prison ministry and finding all the violent offenders were pretty much always major pot users."
And I'm sure even more of them were major alcohol and tobacco users. It only proves they are more likely to seek intoxicants. It does not prove that any of that caused them to be violent criminals.
"It is a drug. Best used for the real patient dying from a cancer or other illness of that magnitude. The rest of those trying to jump the train to use pot are simple drug addicts."
Cancer or only of that magnitude?? PLEASE
What about legal heroin for tooth surgery or the classic "chronic back pain" (easy to fake)
What about psychoactive hypnotic drugs for insomnia (easy to fake)
What about highly addictive toxic benzo tranquilizers for someone with slight social anxiety (easy to fake)
What about legal speed/meth just for someone that says they can't pay attention in class (easy to fake ADHD)
What about trying various cocktails/doses of dangerous addictive antidepressants on someone that just needed a shoulder to cry on.
If people ask a doctor for the above they'll get it. I've never heard of anyone being denied. It gives them more business (more sick patients) and "gifts" from big pharma.
Yet, some people scream about a non-toxic, non-addictive plant that any patient can grow for themselves. And if people want to be dopers, I'd rather they grow and smoke their free pot at home than use my tax dollars for any of these Rx drugs.
One day after arguing with a pot head about the probabilities of pot causing a "psychotic break" I decided to see if I could find out how many famous serial killers used pot.
The results? Pretty much all of them. I actually can't think of one that didn't. Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, Berkowitz, Ridgeway, Manson, and so on.
Looks like that "Reefer Madness" argument was not so far off as people have been led to believe.