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Originally Posted by jaxie

I know of someone who smoked a lot of weed and was so fuddled in the head they killed a pet kitten by standing on it's head while they were out of their head. It wasn't deliberate, it was an accident, but it still makes me sick to think of it and the person who did it has struggled to come to terms with it. So no, there aren't always benefits to it. Drugs are dangerous and if cannibis is ever legalised it should be only for medical use and strictly supervised.

For every anecdote like that, there's about a hundred that pertain to someone intoxicated on alcohol. Maybe we should all supervised whilst we have a drink? Perhaps we could just ban it altogether? Ah, but that isn't going to happen because it's so ingrained within our culture, despite the fact it's far more damaging than weed.

People who are against the legalisation of cannabis are on the wrong side of history. The tide is quite rightly turning in many western countries. Britain isn't progressive enough yet for either the Tories or Labour to campaign on its legalisation for recreational use - in fact I think it'd be electoral suicide - but I give it twenty years before this is no longer a debate, but reality.