There are legitimate chronic pain management issues among people who want to obey the law, and that is why they wish to change it, and I have come to understand that (thank you, phylo)
I would like to support that desire without supporting a culture that seems to want to fit their life into drugs rather than fit drugs into their life. My personal experience with it (as an undergrad) was that it just makes you lazy and stupid. That period for me, as an engineering student, is littered with the memory of bright people who partied away their opportunity and squandered their gifts. My family experience with it is that weak people are not able to walk away from it when it is necessary to do so, and it corrodes what little willpower they can muster as well as numbs their perception of the very real consequences
The best compromise would be let people grow their own, but no commercial enterprises attempting to make ever more potent strains and ever higher profits. I think Weed Inc. has the potential to become just another Pfizer, if you had to grow it to partake it would eliminate any obstacle such as needing a prescription while putting some hurdles in the way of mass every day consumption and unseriousness about the process
I think there is just something maladjusted about wanting to be high just to be high, it is just escapism from life
