I’m with @thekoukoureport on this, more or less. The War on (Some) Drugs is nonsense. We each have our chosen ‘drug’, whether it’s the fats and sodium in processed foods, the caffeine in tea, coffee and most soft drinks (soda), the sugars in candy and other processed foods (and soft drinks), tobacco, alcohol, ‘legal’ drugs taken for various almost-medicinal purposes (mood enhancers in particular) ... or so-called illegal ‘street’ drugs.
And many of those drugs were legal at one time. Most of the worst drugs, such as methamphetimines, CAT and other highs, such as glue, paint and other inhalant ‘sniffing’ were developed because far less harmful drugs (in particular, marijuana) have been vilified so much. If we were to compare the actual harm done by a comparison of marijuana to almost any of the drugs in my first paragraph, including sugar, caffeine, tobacco and alcohol, we’d probably find that marijuana is the least harmful of any of those (except maybe caffeine, and even then you’d have to prove it to me).
The worst thing that I ever did when I smoked marijuana—and I did a lot of that, and I inhaled deeply (the way you’re supposed to)—was that I overate. Since I overate before I even tried pot, and have overeaten for most of the 35 years since I gave it up, I hardly credit the drug with that effect.
No, the War on (Some) Drugs is a total political manipulation, fabricated to enable more police and prosecutorial power over otherwise ordinary citizens, and a way for politicians to campaign for election because they will “protect” us from “those involved in the drug culture”. What utter tripe. They made the “drug culture” that they now pretend to want to save us from. This is the oldest trick in the politicians’ bag of tricks: invent a bogeyman that only they can “protect” us from.