I’ve toked my share back in the day. And, I have close friends who still do. I run my own business (much more successfully before the One was enshrined) and my friends are middle aged, successful business owners and/or professionals.
MJ should be controlled like alcohol: a legal age to buy and use, penalties for abuse, and heavily taxed.
People on this board who say mj is the precursor of failure or heroin use are simply wrong.
At least you recognize that there is no utopian pot of gold at the other end of the rainbow. Those folks are headed for a world of disappointment.
We rushed the medical marijuana law into existence here in Michigan and now things are catching up with us. We now have “patients” selling their “medicine”. Robberies of dispensaries. Prescriptions being handed out for everything from headaches to mosquito bites. Now dispensaries are figuring out that pulling on the ear of city councils is a good way to help eliminate the competition. In fact I read about a dispensary owner who opposes legalization because it would put him out of business.
I guess I’m more in favor of decriminalization than outright legalization. Give a guy caught smoking on the street a $25 fine. Impaired driving laws would still apply. Let people grow and smoke as much as they want in the privacy of their own home.