If coffee is legal then pot should be too, coffee as a stimulant amps people up and brings them down hard when they cant get any. Pot leaves your system slowly so you do not have these terrible effects. I think the current legal drugs are way more harmful than marijuana and way too many people overlook drugs they do themselves.
Compared to coffee, its not addictive. Try stop drinking coffee for a few weeks and let me know the feeling.
Coffee and tea are addictive and so as pot. However, pot has some harmful addictive effects as well compared to coffee and tea. I think addiction is the problem. I smoke and drink but I can live without having these things for months. It depends a lot on individuals.
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Some people are weak minded and maybe it affects them worse, but I do not think banning it is the answer. Most people would benefit from its medicinal and recreational effects, and the small minority it could possibly hurt would need to live with that challenge.
I think people are addicted to pot like they are video games, binge watching tv shows or any other habit, but chemically its not addictive. Unlike coffee, tea, alcohol and tobacco which are all addictive chemically.