im all for this
i started "self medicating" with marijuana when i was 12/13 years old...
which may be young in some peoples eyes, but when you are considering suicide i think its not such a bad thing..

this stuff saved my life in my eyes and as much as i hate to argue i will argue a few minutes with anyone about it..

with any type of substance people can experience "paradoxical" effects.. so the effect one person feels may not be the same as anothers experience..

one thing i can say is that the potency is important... if your levels are low in the blood and you smoke/ingest something really potent you could have those paradoxical effects... some people experience depersonalization and or derealization... some people experience anxiety and panic...
these things have to be acknowledged and shouldnt be ignored just to justify the legalization... proper studies should be done to examine why these paradoxical effects happen to some people and why such a greatly more positive experience happens with others...
like other medications, maybe its an allergic reaction, maybe the system just isnt able to tolerate the drugs effect such as some peoples experience with other meds...
pain killers almost always make me sick even though they help the pain, but does that mean that they are terrible and should be thrown out or not studied?

this plant works wonders for some, and with the people that it does work... they have very few if ANY side effects - no one has ever died directly from the effect of marijuana which in my eyes makes it one of the safest options to consider... even though the paradoxical effects can make one THINK they are dieing...

this plant can help people with a wide variety of different disorders... the medical application is wide and i think that it deserves proper and honest investigation...
not the biased outlooks the world places on it ...

in the usa hemp was a plant that farmers were required to grow at one point
The Forgotten History of Hemp Cultivation in America

the beginning of the alcohol prohibition and drug wars they launched huge campaigns against these things... it was largely a racist bias against mexicans... they claimed that marijuana (marihuana) made people psychotic killers that would rape women and blablabla... watch the classic film "Reefer Madness"

if you are interested the history of how marijuana and alcohol became illegal and prohibition started is quite fascinating and makes you question the entire "Drug Wars" they started in the usa...