If people want to use drugs or alcohol, it’s their business. I’ve used both, and I know what they do.
I’m not into debating the virtues/negatives of any drugs including marijuana and its derivatives.
Cannabis isn’t a drug. It’s a plant that requires zero processing to work. Same goes for poppies (opium), psilocybin (shrooms), mescaline and many other plants we were provided by the Creator to benefit us. Altered states are a GOOD thing when experienced responsibly. The powers that be have brainwashed the public that these things are bad when they are actually what might cause people to start “noticing”.
The gritolological folks would have you believe our brains are what make us, but it is indeed our consciousness that makes us. There’s far more to the human experience that what we’re “allowed” to experience. Unfortunately there are people like LJ who support those who would have us not experience our truest potential.