It demotivates people because it gives them all the satisfaction without doing any of the work for it. Their subconscious ends up associating the strive for feeling good and accomplished with doing more of it. None of this being a direct chemical result, of course. Just someone's mentality growing around their habits as with all things. It just happens to be a bad habit if you use it as a replacement for challenging yourself or being productive.
As for the legal side of things, I can fully agree on the argument of it vs tobacco/alcohol. And even on it's own, it doesn't cause any direct harmful effects to the user nor to anyone around. Except cats. If you smoke it around cats forget you.
It also smells bad, but so does tobacco and alcohol.
this, I think too many people are earning criminal records and doing jail time over something that's no worse than alcohol.
it's not really a dangerous drug. every person I know in college has smoked it.
But sadly, they had to make
something illegal to meet quotas. They tried alcohol before but we all know that didn't turn out well. Way too many people already made a habit out of it and it was widely used in many businesses. Tobacco would be near impossible because it's chemically addicting, the outrage would be insane. Fortunately they've made many laws to keep that at least controlled, because it is something that harms the people around you. Sadly they haven't made laws to not smoke around your own children, growing up was gross. Never really knew what it was like to breathe till I moved out.
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