Salutations YourBaker,
I'm somewhat conflicted over the idea that marijuana use prior to full brain development can be harmful.
Considering how "newbies" get generally "initiated" to cannabis
BEFORE any proper habit skills can ever be acquired, eventually (...), e.g. as with alcohol in families where parents care to "educate" their teenagers hoping to help prevent consumption disorders (instead of wait to "fix" them)... All while although thoughtful alcohol education is performed using a glass (to induce an early notion of appropriate dosing) - which for cannabis users typically turns into a 40 oz bottle equivalent knowing that a ~300 mg or so cigarette/"joint" format
systematically promotes consumption abuse. In other words if one picks the "bad" side he shall find himself in a situation where
DOSING ABUSE is the
very 1st aspect of cannabis to be ever experienced,
besides further self-vilification under the form of a
man-made THC-centric genetic selection (vs "legal" full-CBD if/when lucky to get options...), now complemented by
non-detection "legal" Pest Control Product soups actually mixing tiny amounts of foreign contaminants by the dozen to maximize their synergy since it's a known fact the effects don't just add up: they multiply, hence a possibility to design sprays which even top-notch laboratories and a skilled workforce can hardly catch, assuming they're well motivated... Now compare this to the alcohol practices, especially where artisanal home-made production is allowed...
What if a large part of the so-called cannabis "harm" actually resides in a
multi-factorial socio-toxic context condemning new adepts to
discover & learn cannabis habits the wrong way? Add to that a simple fact of early life:
practice makes perfect. I mean, humans
need training to do things correctly, like to ride a bike for example, or learn how to play music or just appreciate it, etc. Persistent taboos may be raised by simply expressing my following argument but how rational/reasonable/realistic is that to expect "pure" young persons on their way to adulthood to acquire
instant self-control once left alone with a 40 oz bottle and
NO GLASS in some
clandestine environment (not to mention a self-poisoning 300 mg fatty!)?...
If
training is essential for the development of
self-control skills then perhaps making cannabis "legal" only after 21-yrs old as in my province necessarily translates as more
contaminated statistics IMO, because there are legal adults being asked to switch from pure to plain master over night, many years after they're allowed to drive a car, mary and start a family. Unprepared and stigmatized by public-funded TV shaming adds, etc., etc.
More exactly, if
self-control must be acquired through
1st-person experimentation (e.g. including a
human right of trial-and-error...) to avoid self-vilification factors associated by a socio-toxic portion of society (and its failed law) to cannabis then there's an obvious paradox right there since the 25 yrs-old limit for learning new skills must also happen to prove valid for cannabis initiation. Which means for some people it's going to be much too late; m'well at least i can tell i didn't have to wait my 21st birthday to learn riding a bike, nor appreciate & play music, quite on the contrary. Ah, and the bike had 2 round wheels, not one triangle + one square... Or it was no piano devoid of any strings inside, etc.
Good day, have fun!! ☮