>>821832You can smoke weed responsibly too though. I used to smoke incredibly often and got the one of 20 of the top scholarship at my university of 20,000, made kick ass grades through high school smoking weed and doing psyches. I've stopped doing them because I feel like I've gotten what I was looking for out of the experiences, but I know many great students that are setting themselves up for the future that have dabbled in drugs.
The thing is, if any one of us got sent to jail for smoking weed, our entire lives would be thrown off the rails. If the laws that made that the case weren't in place, people wouldn't be getting totally fucked up the way they are now.
Now, granted, people making the decision to do the drugs with all that hanging in the balance is an issue to be addressed for sure.
I'm not saying at all that weed's totally harmless, but there can be some really potent positive effects, especially medically/psychiatrically, so it's weird that it's still so vilified. Basically, it just seems that the punishment grossly outweighs the crime and doesn't do much to address the root issues behind substance use
