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Originally Posted by Skybird
Point 1, I worked in a psychiatric clinic once. I know that both doctors and psychotherapists would strongly disagree with the opinion that the psychological habit of wanting to reapeat joyful experiences with smoking pot are as harmless as you make it appear, not to mention to say it is "safer than sex today". You can fall victim to psychological addictiveness as well
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You can also fall victim to the gestapo like tactics that are associate with the war on drugs. Case in point: a police helicopter spotted a crop of marijuana plants growing in someone's backyard. A warrant was then issued to raid the home on this suspicious that illegal drugs were being produced on the premises, and in the raid the unarmed homeowner was shot and killed. All of this would be bad enough but for one additional factor: it wasn't marijuana plants the guy was growing, he just happened to be a run of the mill joe with an interest in gardening.
I don't just see the supposed dangers of this drug which seem to serve only to drive the production and distribution underground (criminalizing pot is about as effective as prohibition, and alcohol has many dangers associated with it to both the individual and society that pot does not); my position on it, I giess you could say, is that its the criminalization of the drug that is detrimental to society, and not the drug itself.