Confusion

[Osilon]

Drugs make you stupid, weed included, cigarettes give you nothing at best.

I'd like to detest this part. Marijuana actually does very little compared to other drugs. Compared to other widely used drugs (alcohol, tobacco, opiates) a smaller percentage of cannabis users become dependent. Marijuana has repeatedly been proven to NOT cause cancer, heart disease, brain damage, liver disease, emphysema, or any other significant health issue, and its addiction potential is about on par with coffee. There are hundreds of thousands of deaths each year because of alcohol or cigarettes, but you aren't likely to find a hundredth of that amount caused by marijuana in all of history. The reasons it is banned are purely commercial: Hence its name, it grows like a weed, meaning anyone can grow and sell it. It isn't controllable by companies like pharmaceuticals and alcoholics. It can be grown by anyone, because it is a natural drug, something that distinguishes it from crack, meth, cigarettes and alcohol. As an elsewhere-forumgoer put it:

1) Because the government can't regulate it to get its cut (sin taxes). It takes a lot more effort to cultivate tobacco or brew alcohol than it does to put a plant in a pot and watch it grow.
2) Because society has decided that it doesn't want it around. Then again, I have a hard time trying to figure out why I would want to ingest something that a) makes me needlessly hungry, b) compels me to sit in the corner for three hours contemplating the wonders of string, c) impairs my ability to count and do other basic math, and d) provides a false escape from the world around me.

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