You are simply adding to my statement about people who don't understand how the world works. There are negative side effects to smoking Marijuana. Like you said, it has nothing to do with being healthy or unhealthy. Just like you find it's a personal choice to take it or not, many others feel it effects the people around you. You can't argue against facts with opinion. Neither side will win.
The only people who I've ever heard complain about the side effects of my weed-smoking habit were people who were blatantly against it. And for that reason only. I had my step-father complain about how he got headaches from the smell (him being an alcoholic and at that time, a heavy smoker, but hey) and had me smoking outside, even in the middle of the winter. You act as if those side effects are fact but they do not even exist in a way that is necessarily only true for usage of weed. Ive experienced such side effects with the alcohol usage of my stepfather when he turned violent. There are undoubtedly people who can experience the negative side effects of people playing violent video games, especially those who believe video games are evil. I can experience the negative side effects of people having the freedom of having kids as much as they want, resulting in overpopulation and I can experience the side effects of people who want to deny others their freedom just because there are others who can't take the responsibility do deserve it. I can go on like this all day. That how freedom works. We have to share the same space on a single planet and what one does affects another, both negatively and positively. Where I stand, no-one else can stand, the air I breath, no-one else can breath. Every step that I take towards a goal diminishes the chances for another to accomplish that same goal. There are many people who cannot deal with freedom responsibly, but that cannot be a reason to deny others the right to their freedom. But now I, a former stoner and responsible drug user, am explaining the essence of freedom and probably life to a sober, smart person who has the facts supporting he 'knows how stuff works'.
If you wish to be free from the negative side effects of all that is human, feel free to lock yourself in and never set a foot outside again.
One person ruins it for everyone. Extacy and Acid were both created by the government as helpful 'drugs'. Humans learned to abuse them, and they became a hazard. So they get outlawed. In a sense, anything that is abused can become negative for not only yourself but the people around you. You are simply adding more opinion and no facts to your statements which makes everything you say a moot point.
If you would take everything that could be abused and make it against the law there would be nothing left. Everything can be abused. How about every single piece of technology being used in warfare. Einstein didn't come up with e=mc^2 for people to make atom-bombs, and as such Hoffman didn't discover LSD for people to abuse it (get your 'facts' straight about government having created it) and indeed, MDMA wasn't created for people to abuse it. There's always gonna people abusing stuff just because they feel they can.
This argument holds for just about anything. You can use anything to cause damage to another. It is not the thing that is abused that is the cause of evil, it is the way people deal with it. It's is the will to abuse or the lack of will to be considerate, be respectfull or the be responsible.
It wasn't my article. Also, if you had actually read what I wrote I simply stated that THE ARTICLE focused on people who don't understand how the world works. Not that all pot smokers don't understand. Hell, Carl Sagan was pro-pot, and the man was a genius. You didn't see him at giant meetings in front of city hall holding a banner with a giant pot leaf while smoking a blunt though. It's just that there are thousands of legal problems with legalizing maryjane now that it has been illegal for so long. First the mental barrier of it being a 'drug' and is 'a gateway drug to cocaine or heroin" has to be removed. Then the legal battle really begins.
This I agree with you. But it is only because it has been placed in a "bad", "criminal" and "evil" perspective by the ones who just didn't want others to use it. People against drugs have to keep making stuff up to make a point that does not exist. They tell you they know how stuff works which in turn people believe so they too can deny others their freedom because 'that's not how stuff works'. In the NL, where I'm from we are actually well on our way. I can remember when it was allowed to smoke tobacco on the train. But if I wanted to smoke a joint i could. I would sometimes ask the other people in the cabin if they were okay with it before I smoked and there were never objections. You can't smoke on trains anymore though.
I don't have to read what anti-drug people have to say. There is nothing in this world that can prove my way of living is wrong. In the same way there is no proof or a single fact that shows you you're living live the way it's supposed to. Even if there are somehow facts that do so, they cannot be proven. There may be numerous cases and researces that prove how bad smoking is, it is not a proof that one should not smoke. I don't come up with facts for the simple reason that they have nothing to do with this. What fact were you expecting anyway, to proof that drugs should be illegal? What do the facts that Chaosphere posted actually tell you??
Dude, seriously. You have no clue what you are talking about. You must be either religious or in another way mentally impaired. There will never be a sane person, who responsibly used any kind of drugs that will tell another they are bad. I hope for your sake you will never find out 'how stuff works'.
Go back to sleep.