How so? Not everyone that smokes a joint on Saturday night is a high school kid or a college student. Try to see through the stereotypes. Do you really think all that weed grown/imported into the US is used by kids or lefties.
I think pot should be legal. It is indeed bad for you, but so are many things in this world.
Alchohol is clearly a more dangerous drug than pot. You can get so drunk in a couple of hours that you can't even stand up, or worse, you die of alchohol poisoning.
You can't overdose on pot, it's impossible. You can only get so stoned, no matter how much pot you smoke. Which blows out of the water the whole arguement about the BC Bud being so dangerous because of the high THC content. If you have strong pot it just means you smoke less.
Look at tobacco and the hundreds of thousands of people it kills each year, yet it's legal. How can the government say that pot is too dangerous to legalize, yet the two legal recreational drugs we have today kill so many?
Up top the article mentioned that pharmaceutical companies came up with Marinol for sick patients as a replacement for pot. Drug company to patient: "Don't smoke pot, that stuff is dangerous, but here ya go, take this THC pill instead. Is it good for you? Who knows, but Marinol is our synthetically made THC which is patented, which means we make money when you take this. We don't make money when you smoke pot because we can't patent a plant. So remember, unpatented drugs that you take are bad for you because we don't get our cut. Got it? Great!"