I live in Victoria, BC, Canada, pot is almost as common here as tobacco depending what neighbourhoods you're in, hell most apartment buildings have a few hallways that smell faintly of marajuana, police have pretty much given up enforcement for posession, only really confiscate it if you got a bunch on you, they go after grow ops, because that's the business end and you can enforce that without putting thousands of people in prison.
About half my friends smoke it, and hell I do periodically, and lemme tell you, I've worked in environments in which i was surrounded by drug users of all sorts, and when I say pot should be legal medical or not, well it's because out of all the drug users I've come across, I've NEVER met a stoner who wasn't friendly or at least nonviolent in their attitude while in public, drunks crackheads and meth users... well not so much y'know... quite the opposite.
Just saying convenience stores would get hella rich, and you'd have less violent crime if weed was cheap and legal and readily available.
As far as medical use, it acts as a pain killer muscle relaxant appetite booster, and just generally helps people get their mind off their problems for awhile... I've known people with cancer that wouldn have died without pot, like starved and had no will to live and no energy to fight it.
People who struggle with chronic pain who have a resistance to all sorts of over the counter pain killers, have found it helps a lot.
I say just legalize the shit all out, medical or not, it's not nearly as destructive as booze when it comes to violent acts while under the influence, and it can help people who need a bit of relief. I mean sure you would hafta have warnings about some of the side effects of pot use like short term memory loss, and let people know that as a psychoactive drug, it can mess with your head, and affects different people differently... But I say why waste money enforcing all the drug prohibition laws on the most common and least harmful drug on the streets...Put the money saved from the enforcement costs, and the taxes on the stuff that would undoubtedly be huge proffit government-side, to work on healthcare and education that seems to be the first target for cuts in like every government.
About half my friends smoke it, and hell I do periodically, and lemme tell you, I've worked in environments in which i was surrounded by drug users of all sorts, and when I say pot should be legal medical or not, well it's because out of all the drug users I've come across, I've NEVER met a stoner who wasn't friendly or at least nonviolent in their attitude while in public, drunks crackheads and meth users... well not so much y'know... quite the opposite.
Just saying convenience stores would get hella rich, and you'd have less violent crime if weed was cheap and legal and readily available.
As far as medical use, it acts as a pain killer muscle relaxant appetite booster, and just generally helps people get their mind off their problems for awhile... I've known people with cancer that wouldn have died without pot, like starved and had no will to live and no energy to fight it.
People who struggle with chronic pain who have a resistance to all sorts of over the counter pain killers, have found it helps a lot.
I say just legalize the shit all out, medical or not, it's not nearly as destructive as booze when it comes to violent acts while under the influence, and it can help people who need a bit of relief. I mean sure you would hafta have warnings about some of the side effects of pot use like short term memory loss, and let people know that as a psychoactive drug, it can mess with your head, and affects different people differently... But I say why waste money enforcing all the drug prohibition laws on the most common and least harmful drug on the streets...Put the money saved from the enforcement costs, and the taxes on the stuff that would undoubtedly be huge proffit government-side, to work on healthcare and education that seems to be the first target for cuts in like every government.