Most of the shootings in Chicago are gang related and they are dope pusher turf wars.
Unlike pot, you can have a beer or a glass of wine without having any change in behavior and/or mental state.
I don’t smoke weed. I tried it a few times when I was younger and I didn’t like the feeling. I don’t think weed it’s even remotely dangerous as the government use to tell us it was, but now there are too many people who defend it like it has all these benefits without any side effects. I think that’s just as dishonest, but I’ve seen more people kill themselves with alcohol than weed. That doesn’t mean the people who drink a glass or two of wine with a meal shouldn’t be able to do so.
Today’s pot is 10x as powerful as that of 50 yrs ago hence many cannot handle it. It has always been prone to wiping people out and putting them to sleep. That caricature is correct. There are also new and more efficient ways of using it and concentrates, some of which are over 90% THC.
Even with the increased strength pot is a minor problem compared to the Ox-Cotin epidemic. I just saw a documentary about the plague sweeping Baltimore (in this case.) One look at these addicts shows how innocuous weed is.