Most everything you people are saying here are attempts to justify drug use. For example, continual bringing up alcohol as compares to weed. This is like a childish argument of "Suzie gets to, why can't I," or similar to "why should I go to hell, someone else did something worse than me." It's all a rationalization of chasing after and prioritizing a person's own pleasure-seeking over and above the interests of society.
None of you have pointed to any studies which conclusively prove your points, yet you demand those who disagree with you to post them, ad nauseum. I have posted one, wherein it even stated there is NO CONCLUSIVE agreement among researchers as to the detrimental, long-term, effects of drugs because there have been little or no studies performed on longevity. I also posted the known acute and chronic detrimental effects and possible chronic detrimental effects. Yet, you all act like you have some hidden and superior knowledge that would supercede current knowledge and state that people should have the right to take narcotics/weed, that is has no effect on our society, and/or that it is safe and should be legalized and freely used in our society, unless and until the real experts come up with something to absolutely prove you wrong. I don't think this will ever happen for any of you.
Where is the attempt by any of you to "understand" or have a "meeting of the minds?" Ain't there.
And with all the caustic comments most of you are posting now, in addition to calling me names because I disagree with you, continue to prove me correct: your minds are made up and you have no desire to think contrary to how you've made up your minds, therefore, there is no point to any of this because, as I previously stated, there is nothing, then, to "discuss." I am more convinced by what I have experienced and seen personally and anecdotally and learned in my psychology courses while at college than anything you've rehashed here (all the excuses for why drugs should be legalized).