America has such a short memory. The reason drugs are illegal now is because they didn’t use to be illegal and we had a big problem. Some of them were even commercially mainstreamed in products to solve every malady under the sun. If you took enough, you just didn’t care about the malady anymore.
Pot, like alcohol tends to remove inhibitions which sometimes ends with the person doing stupid or criminal acts. Though not proven, I believe that unlike alcohol, some of pot’s effects are permanent, especially with the young. The prefrontal cortex is not fully developed until a person is about 26. This is the part of the brain that keeps you from doing stupid or evil stuff. It might explain why a lot of liberals have no conscience.
No, nanny-statists overstated the problem in order to grow government, just as they do today with e.g. globull warming.
Some of them were even commercially mainstreamed in products to solve every malady under the sun.
Product labeling requirements are enough to address that problem.