If cannabis displaces alcohol in recreational drug use, it is hard to see that being a bad trade-off, even in all but the rarest individual cases. There is als

If cannabis displaces alcohol in recreational drug use, it is hard to see that being a bad trade-off, even in all but the rarest individual cases. There is also a massive amount of quack medicine out there "treating" cannabis users because that's the alternative to going to prison. Those quacks are not going to give up their gravy train without a fight. Overall the article is disappointing especially coming from Gladwell who I expect would delve into Drug War quackery and scientific fraud. He points out that cannabis is unstudied, and then goes on to the scary anecdotes. His omission of the harm reduction aspect of cannabis is highlighted by his use of non-cigarette nicotine products as an example of hard reduction that is sometimes the object of moral panic. There's no sense of perspective. Are we looking at a hidden public health crisis or a "D&D is harmful to some people" level of concern?