Is The Leafy Green A Vice, A Dangerous Drug Or A Casual Pastime?

Drugs are bad. This consensus has driven the questionable War on Drugs in the United States, the criminalization of anything with the word "hallucinatory" in the description and the mantra repeated by at least three generations of parents in North America.

But of all the red-lighted substances in the legal gamut, the most controversial drug by a mile is marijuana.

Is marijuana a vice, or is it just "a lot of fun," in the words of occasional user Derrick King?

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