I know a lot of people feel very strongly that marijuana be made legal for recreational use and, whilst I admire people for standing up for what they believe in (providing what they believe in doesn’t harm innocent people or animals), I can’t help think “I wish some of my friends would put as much energy into feeding starving children or saving gorillas from extinction as they do in moaning about why they can’t be legal potheads”!

Now, I don’t care either way about whether it is made legal for recreational use. I can understand why people think it should be legal to use recreationally but my question isn’t about whether it should be or not but why it’s so important and why people are so passionate about something that is a want not a need.

Is it really that important and if so, why?