I am all l for legalizing the stuff, in fact I am all for legalizing everything. It reduces crime, empties out prisons...etc. People need to be responsible for their choices. It wouldn't make me do drugs, as I have no interest in personally.
However, this idea that pot is harmless, and a magic elixir for everything is the biggest crock of crap. I was just in Vancouver, and went into the little pot palace there, just to buy a pipe as a gift for a friend who's a 'connoisseur'. I have never seen a bigger bunch of space cadets, right from the clientele to the staff working there. I have a couple friends from high school who are heavy users, and have maintained heavy usage into their 40's, and at their most sober moments, they are only half there. Like they are permanently distracted by a squirrel or something. One of them has a smokers cough so brutal, it sounds like he has inhaled a pound of butter, and he doesn't smoke cigarettes ever.
Recreational users? Yeah, I know a lot of people that will light up once a month or so and they are just like anyone else. However, the few people I know that maintain it as a lifestyle? They are basically unemployable, and to be honest, bordering on having a mental disability that would qualify them for hockey helmets and leashes in public. It isn't without it's side effects. And anyone who thinks so, is just trying to justify an addiction.
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