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?
Not buying it, no sale.
These people are not slaughtering young kids because of pot. That’s ridicules. The truth is, anyone who’d do what the mental case in Uvalde did, was very disturbed before they ever touched pot. No way can you blame cannabis for these horrific mass murders.
The ugly truth is we’re not caring for our own people who clearly have mental issues. Homeless mental cases are everywhere. We all know the story. What a disgrace!
A big reason for this is we’re to damn busy sending billions out in foreign aid, Ukraine, all them. Hundreds of billions! Enough to build and staff dozens of mental hospitals/facilities from coast to coast.
See door #38.
Consider this. The homeless that refuse offers of free housing and a path to normality aren't refusing due to not being able to pass a drug test due to Marijuana, they refuse due to not being able to pass a drug test due to Cocaine, Crystal Methamphetamine, Heroin, Opiod abuse, etc.
I have homeless around here too in Southern California. Your statement about homeless is not credible concerning Marijuana “abuse”. It's legal here, so at this point your argument falls apart, IMO.