Commentary For years, marijuana advocates claimed that if only America would loosen restrictions, we’d all see how beneficial the drug is. But now, more than 10 years after the first efforts to do just that, we are seeing that the critics were right. Liberal pot laws and increased usage are far from the panacea pot-lovers claimed. Starting back in 2012, Colorado passed a law to allow private use of marijuana. Soon the state of Washington joined the Centennial State in loosening its pot laws. And many more came in the following years, especially when the states began to realize it could tax “legal” marijuana and bring millions into their state treasuries. Now even the federal government is looking to loosen the reins and is preparing to take pot off its Schedule One prohibitions, a move said to be the first step in decriminalizing marijuana. But now these states are finding that it is time to pay the piper, as a raft of ill-effects are spreading like wildfire all across the country.…
The Dutch are doing a billion business with it for years. Decades. You can't even imagine how many "tourists" are going to Amsterdam for a "joint" annually.
The general opinion of all Doctors used to be that Marijuana caused Schizophrenia. As a young adult, I knew somebody who had smoked Marijuana/Cannabis when he was in his teens. Apparently, by the time he was a young adult in his 20's, he was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. The Doctors said that it had probably been caused by smoking Cannabis when he was younger.