Give us all a break. 'Technical people' are just as (if not more likely) to be biased than ordinary people.
Marijuana is safer than cigarettes and alcohol but it is hardly harmless and we definitely don't know enough about its effect on the brain especially amongst younger users. But of course you will often see such concerns dismissed.
And few people are seriously proposing that we regulated it less than alcohol and cigarettes, so where exactly is the irrational bias?
It doesn't have to be magical hippy juice to legalize it, being safer than alcohol or tobacco is reason enough to legalize it. Hell, the clear racial motivations for the initial banning and the continuation of it are reason enough to legalize it.
"it is hardly harmless and we definitely don't know enough about its effect on the brain especially amongst younger users"
I'm a great deal more worried about tobacco and alcohol binging in youths, or in the privacy nonsense and the social stuff, then I am about some weed.
If you really want to argue "Think of the children!" look at Portugal's decriminalization for the past decade, and see if they have any numbers for you. Stop scaremongering.
Actually, I think there is something about the cold logical mind that deals with logical computers that is more likely to come down on the legalization side.
If we say that legalization is rational and its irrational emotional concerns that keep it illegal, it would make some sense, right?
See, when I talk face to face to people who are against it, they usually accept all the logic to legalize it, then say something like, "well, yes, but I just don't like the idea". They then shut down.
So, I do think there is something in it. Not universally, but I reckon there is a correlation.
Weed is hard to study because it's a schedule 1 drug. Change that and you will have a massive surge in the amount of studies done on it. It's safer than alcohol, we know that much. Not that it should matter. I'm an adult and should be able to put whatever I want in my body.
Marijuana is safer than cigarettes and alcohol but it is hardly harmless and we definitely don't know enough about its effect on the brain especially amongst younger users. But of course you will often see such concerns dismissed.