Aw come on.
Marijuana is now given as a prescription drug!
It does NOT make you violent. It makes you mellow, hungry and sleepy.
Which is not to say that abuse of most anything can cause problems.
“Moderation in all things”.....should be our motto, be it alcohol, cannabis and I suppose some drugs but I will stop there.
In many venues it’s legal and should have been decades ago. Throwing people in cages and seizing their assets over something as mundane as pot, when compared to mass murdering alcohol, is insane IMO. And over the course of many decades, government made criminals of millions of Americans over pot. It’s a disgrace. And all it did was significantly grow the size of government in every direction.
Including excess!
More broadly, just as there are happy drunks, mean drunks, and violent drunks, there are mellow pot heads, erratic and unpredictable pot heads, and violent pot heads. It is not just a matter of moderation or excess but that the effects of a drug can vary greatly from one person to another, even from one occasion to another.
With prescription drugs and over the counter drugs, strict controls on purity and dosage and medical supervision and warnings on labels help to guard against dangerous adverse reactions. With legal recreational drugs like alcohol, and illegal ones like marijuana though it is a matter of individual choice and circumstance. And some people like getting charged up on alcohol or illegal drugs. Indeed, criminals often get high before committing crimes -- and cheap, easily available marijuana is often the drug of choice for that purpose or a key part of the mix.
Again, do not take my word for it. Go to a homeless encampment and sniff the air or interview criminals and ask what drugs are used for what purposes. Or read the studies and reports of those who have done so as professionals. There are even a number of studies that rely on hospital and morgue drawn blood samples that show the involvement of marijuana in violent crime and accidents.
The bottom line is that marijuana has a range of effects and offers dangers to self and others that, in the aggregate, mean that a rise in marijuana use leads to a rise in violent crime. If you doubt it, then ask yourself why, as a matter of common sense, if marijuana use "makes you mellow, hungry and sleepy," why are homeless encampments such dangerous places?