[Rockingham]

A dispassionate look at the most recent medical studies indexed on PubMed shows the evidence as to the connection between marijuana and mental illness is stronger than I first supposed. Indeed, for those with schizophrenia, marijuana use makes their mental illness worse. A popular if illegal recreational drug that revs up schizophrenia is harmful by any reasonable measure.

Obviously, we differ in the value we place on modern societies in mostly permitting alcohol use but banning marijuana. Dismissing that as simple majority opinion gives inadequate credit to the experience and considered judgement of mankind. Wide scale de facto marijuana legalization is commonly a feature of undeveloped and usually dysfunctional societies, not of modern ones.

[NobleFree]

for those with schizophrenia, marijuana use makes their mental illness worse.

Whereas alcohol makes it better?

A popular if illegal recreational drug that revs up schizophrenia is harmful by any reasonable measure.

Beat that straw man. Who ever said it was harmless?

Obviously, we differ in the value we place on modern societies in mostly permitting alcohol use but banning marijuana. Dismissing that as simple majority opinion gives inadequate credit to the experience and considered judgement of mankind.

Much of mankind has had little experience with marijuana; it was criminalized in this country after generations of legality, amid a wave of demagogery about "crazy Mexicans" and white-woman seducing Negro jazz musicians.