So today for health we watched a series of interviews from different perspectives on the cannabis debate, each video covered a different thing, the view from both sides (pro and anti cannabis), the view of former drug users and the view of how it impacted another country that did the same.
After watching all of this my opinions on the debate as a whole seems a little biased towards the pro-cannabis side mostly because in the more "professional" side of the debate the person representing anti-cannabis failed to make any valid or good points, and any points that could've made great points like the drug wars in south America were just blurted out and discarded without a second thought, so if they'd had a better representative for it then I'd have a better view of the reprecussions,
But that was thankfully cleared up in the video regarding the view of the public, instead of focusiing on what other countries problems are but instead focus on their lives and the lives of people around them and how they're affected by drugs, Cannabis isn't the most used drug but legalizing it would cut down the use of synthetics which have been proven deadlier than the drug itself, it was great to see that these people are actively trying to help other people off drugs, one is even trying to bring together a community to create an anti-drug expo, this is a much better approach to the argument
The 3rd viewpoint of seeing how it's affected a country from an outside perspective was another well done point, the speaker was straight forward and wanted to make sure his point was being made clear, even if the host was twisting some of his words, he did his best and covered a lot of facts about the legalization and decriminalization of cannabis.
So in final, I agreed with most of these points, I still think it can be a good thing for cannabis to be made legal, as long as the right precautions are taken, I personally have no intentions of doing Cannabis myself but I know of it's effects from friends and my own research, I know it can help stress and several forms of depression, but only temporarily
