from the article: > it lowered the rates of suicide, binge drinking, traffic fatalities, and perhaps ironically, cannabis use in teenagers As someone who's ge

from the article: > it lowered the rates of suicide, binge drinking, traffic fatalities, and perhaps ironically, cannabis use in teenagers As someone who's generally been pro-pot, these benefits sound like an "improvement of really bad things" which, I wonder, is missing the "degradation of good things" anger of the story. For example, impact of smoking pot on obesity? I certainly was the fattest during the periods of my life when I smoked (because it led to things like eating a whole package of cheese at 2am, something I don't do otherwise) Or, on overall social outcomes? Are people meeting more people, making more friends, going on more dates - or are they increasingly sitting high alone in their room? Or, educational / professional ambitious outcome? Are people relatively less motivated to pursue these things as they are, on average, more high? I don't know the answers but I think it would be important to understand those, before we unilaterally celebrate that someone who would have been binge-drinking is just very high instead? Potentially, this type of thing can hurt a much larger number of people than is helped by the things mentioned in the story.