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Oh okay, gotcha. I agree with everything you said, especially legalizing drugs, except this:
At correct doses... (that's the kicker) https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/medical-marijuana-faq
We have literally seen kids to adults during epileptic attacks be made to take cannabis, with massive, visible reduction in their seizures shortly after; no other natural substance can do this so fast of which I know.
The typical ∆8-/∆9-THC strains can also significantly boost appetite for people struggling with theirs. They strongly increase pain tolerance. They aid sleep (or they stimulate if taken in microdoses). They shut down anxiety (again, at correct, small doses, such as likely not when smoked—which is the absolute worst way to take it, or anything else for that matter).
I guess my point is that we know the harm that it causes already. There are specific fenceposts by which people should abide:
There's a whole ton of literature to back this all up which is why I think examining its problems is sort of spinning wheels. Compare that to the fact that it can prevent people from digging into heroin, etc. and I'd go with this stuff any day.
A little off-topic but just for readers' information here: the miracle material out there is probably actually infrared light. I'm convinced that if God exists, He/It emits pure infrared light; even NASA uses red light panels to heal its astronauts' wounds faster: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/22114-red-light-therapy
As for a miracle drug in the realm of mind-altering substances, it's probably psilocybin (or really psilocin if one wants to get technical): one single, well-designed trip can annihilate perfectionism or obsessions (and thereby depression or anxiety resulting from any such mental ruts): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin_therapy
And none of these are any more addictive than sugar, as far as I know from all the research that has been poured into them—certainly not worse than alcohol or nicotine.
Sincerely,
A teetotaler