cberg wrote:
If you don't smoke, don't guilt trip those of us who do. You have no idea why we might. Other neurological problems can be more troublesome to some people than anything you mentioned. Cannabis also does not remove people from the real world.
I work for a 9000 person company. I've also been a licensed medical marijuana patient. I wouldn't in a million years call my dispensary nor any of their growers or extraction labs "big business". Come to think of it, if you're ever in Colorado I'll prove all this to you. You're probably going to tell me I'm insane & so is OP. Truthfully I'm sorry you've closed your mind too much to understand this part of others' lives.
In other words welcome to the internet; we will probably do some things that scare you.
Medical usage of cannabis is perfectly legitimate, but it makes up only a very, very small proportion of net use. I've noticed that this is the tactic of pro-drugs lobbyists in the UK (where I live): pour heaps and heaps of attention on the handful of cases of marijuana use where there was a legitimate medical reason for it and manipulate the public into afreeing to legalise it on that basis, which of course is a stepping stone towards complete legalisation. I'd never condemn someone for using cannabis for medical reasons, but that's not what the original poster was talking about.
I wouldn't call cannabis harvesters "Big Business" either, but the companies that employ them certainly come under that heading.