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Originally Posted by kizzy

But how would you know you had a predisposition to addiction or condition?
If it is legal it could encourage many more people to try it than would if it were an illegal substance.
As said there are already so many problems medically and socially associated with tobacco and alcohol, why throw cannabis in the mix?
The implications of long term recreational use are only just being recognised.
You still meet people that say ''smoking doesn't cause cancer my gran/ grandad/ uncle smoked all their lives and were fine''....
Because you are not affected personally doesn't mean there isn't a problem.

The thing about the bit in bold is that there're so many different developments and supposed new theories put forward by scientists and researchers, about what may and may not cause you cancer (the Daily Mail are famous for this ), that I (personally) kind of take it with a pinch of salt.

And I can see your point about legal cannabis being another problem to monitor but again, I just think it's already going to be a problem because some people (and the majority of people who would be interested in smoking it - let's face it, it's not really hard to get a hold of it ) smoke it with or without the state's permission.