I don't like anything about weed, and I'm hardly ignorant on the subject.
When I was a kid, more than half my friends smoked it. Because I did not, they often used me as a sort of drug dog. They'd ask me to come smell a room they'd been smoking in to see if they'd aired it out enough and used enough lysol.
I thought it was a stupid habit then (and said so, but nicely), and all I've learned sense then only confirms that.
Above all, I've learned that many IDIOTS on both sides of the debate CONTINUE to express the argument in terms of a two dimensional linear scale of Good/Bad, which is knuckle dragging stupid wrong....
When comparing drugs, food, etc, NEVER think in terms of a linear good/bad scale. NOT EVER.
One can say that Oranges are "good" to consume, and that heroin is "bad" to consume, but if you do it on a flat linear scale, you are an idiot.
Think of all things we can consume as twenty dimensional blobs, or better yet, two hundred dimensional. The effect of one "overall" good substance on your lungs might actually "bad", likewise an overall bad substance probably will have some good aspects.
Also, exactly HOW a substance is used plays a part. While BotTox gets most fame from vanity cosmetic treatments, it has a varity of good medical uses, but is STILL a deadly "kill you dead" toxin if consumed with food in any significant amount.
Which all leads to the following point....
Weed overlaps A LOT with legal things, such as booze (in negative and positives ways). Both are very very very different, but they are roughly on par. Where one is bad, the other often has no ill effect. Both have well documented positive aspects. And admit it or not, both have well documented negative aspects, and BOTH can be a LARGE part of self-destructive lifestyles.
But one is legal and one is not.
As it SHOULD BE.
But I'll lose no sleep if they legalize weed and then treat it very very similar (but not exactly) like they treat booze.
No matter where the line is drawn on legal/illegal, THERE WILL BE SUBSTANCES ON THE EDGE OF THAT LINE, OR EVEN ON BOTH SIDES.
KEY POINT:
Being "no worse than" something legal that has serious downsides is NOT a good argument for making something legal.
But screwing drug cartels is very attractive to me, not to mention that potential taxes.
My main concern is that they treat a redeyed doctor going in to do surgury EXACTLY like they'd treat one who had a hangover.
Again: Weed is stupid. About as stupid as cigarettes.
But overall, its a pretty minor issue if its a minor habit.
