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"The rest just want to forget about whatever is going on in their lives and get high. Why can't people just admit the truth?"

Many people consuming alcohol are doing so for similar reasons.

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I know this. Alcoholics also aren't trying to tell the world that it cleanses your kidneys.

I'm not a user of THC, but it doesn't help the debate when opponents spread huge amounts of misinformation and propaganda on the opposing side of the topic either, often citing debunked toxicity studies, and claiming false links to mental illness, none of which have been shown to be causative. Many of the dangers claimed are observations made from animal necroscopies after LD50 doses or doses non-representative of recreational or medical usage. Not joking, the LD50 of cannabis leaf for humans is roughly 3/4 of a ton, or something like 17lbs of pure THC.

I'm just curious, your opposition seems largely centered on people being high and not the medical effects, are you a prohibitionist too? What about self-induced altered states of mind, hypnosis, etc? Neurochemically active foods (chocolate->dopamine link)? What's the reasoning?

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