That's an extreme view, don't know where you are getting positive-only information feed. Like any mind-altering substance, it has its positives and drawbacks wh

That's an extreme view, don't know where you are getting positive-only information feed. Like any mind-altering substance, it has its positives and drawbacks which are different from person to person. For me personally, the benefits far outweigh drawbacks. In society where things like alcohol and cigarettes/tobacco are perfectly fine although they provably destroy endless stream of families, lives and bring one of the worst possible (and costly to society) ways to die, having cannabis illegal is unfair and illogical. US prisons full of small time weed offenders, an event that effectively ruins one's professional life. Read a bit about history and why it was banned in US, which then pushed it to the rest of the world. Even to places like India where its used as religious plant for millennia. I strongly welcome legalization and hope the movement comes to Europe, and rest of the world soon. Society is better off if it is legalized (and regulated for things like access to minors/psychiatric patients, strength, purity etc). Now to advise it as panacea for mental issues is plain stupid. Go see an expert, that's why we have them. Same would go for stuff like LSD.