I can’t wait to hear the rationalizations as the marijuana rehabilitation centers multiply. At least Colorado and Washington demonstrate the value of our federal system. The citizens of those states will be living proof of the danger involved in playing with ones mind.
There are rehab centers but nobody comes in for medical treatment for pot.
The treatment for pot addiction is purely psychological. The same as the treatment for video game addicts, porn addicts, workaholics, shopaholics, overeaters, adrenaline junkies, cutters, etc, etc, etc. Psychological addiction is a form of OCD and these people will always find something pleasurable to use for escape. If you tried to use laws to stop addiction, you would have to outlaw every pleasurable thing.
“The citizens of those states will be living proof of the danger involved in playing with ones mind.”
Then we shouldn't allow alcohol and shouldn't be prescribing truckloads of designer psychotropics and narcotics like candy. Alcohol and all of those synthetic drugs, without exception, are 100% MEDICALLY PROVEN to be physically and mentally dangerous. Many are extremely physically addictive.
Cannabis has been used for thousands of years and is consumed by millions of people around the world daily. There has not been a SINGLE case of proven damage or mental illness caused by the chemicals found in Cannabis. Even when they are abused beyond all reason. Even under lab tests involving doses not possible in the real world. Not a single study shows a direct link to mental illness (the closest show only a casual correlation that can also be found with nicotine).
Nothing in life is 100% safe. Even sitting in a padded room is damaging to your health. I'd say cannabis is the least of our worries and zero resources should be invested in pointlessly trying to outlaw a plant that a child can grow.