Cannabis s the least risky recreational drug

[mesquite]

And all the way at the bottom of the list? Weed — roughly 114 times less deadly than booze, according to the authors, who ran calculations that compared lethal doses of a given substance with the amount that a typical person uses. Marijuana is also the only drug studied that posed a low mortality risk to its users.

www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/02/23/marijuana-may-be-even-safer-than-previously-thought-researchers-say/?hpid=z4

So, if it is safer than cigarettes, why do we have to make criminals out of the people who use it?

[mysisteringa]

Money... Court costs, probation fees, fines, etc.