the question of whether it's dangerous or not is more subtle.
it is certainly extremely carcinogenic and overwhelmingly dangerous on that level, which should be important, but doesn't seem to click for many people, including legislators in canada. while true, this doesn't seem to matter, for some reason.
the ambiguity with dope is that it's always been difficult to figure out if potheads are stupid because they smoked themselves retarded or if they were already retarded in the first place. are they stupid because of the pot or were they attracted to the pot because they were stupid? nobody has a clear answer to this. the correlation of immense levels of stupidity with even moderate marijuana use is abundantly clear, but there is no rigorously demonstrated cause and effect. it's probably a poorly understood feedback cycle.
the problem is that our culture sucks. we make shit movies, listen to shit music, watch shit tv, vote for shit politicians, eat shit food, etc and all of it drives home this necessity to fit in and be cool. the tv says drugs are cool, and virtually everybody gets brainwashed by it. it's very difficult to escape the mind control. so, it's difficult to do controlled experiments.
it's certainly true that people are stupid while under the influence of marijuana, and that it can lead to impaired decision making of any and all sorts, including delayed reaction times.
these challenges may be manageable with some effort, but i don't see what the benefit of managing these challenges is. however you crunch it, you end up with a net drain of resources and no discernible benefits. should we not have something to show for the effort of managing the challenges? only the capitalists benefit, and that is not a good reason for legalization.
but when you look at it carefully, that's what the reality is. these arguments for legalization are all a lot of bullshit. legalizing marijuana benefits the producers that profit from selling it at the expense of an array of manageable social concerns. if you think that is worth it, you support it. if you don't think it's worth it, you don't.
i think that legalizing marijuana in canada was a generational mistake that we'll be paying for for decades.
my primary concern is rights for non-smokers. i really don't care about drug addicts. at all.
i support laws that strengthen the rights of non-smokers and continue to decrease the amount of interaction smokers are required to have with non-smokers. i could generalize: i support laws that strengthen the right to a substance-free existence for people that choose to live that way. nobody has the right to force their drug habits on other people.
i have no interest in legislation that legalizes drug consumption.