This is typical of marijuana threads. They start out with a news headline and quickly degenerate into the pro or con bickering. Nobody on this thread has a voice in Thai Parliament anyways, yet here we are on page 6. Has anyone been swayed from their previously held views?
Most of my friends at home use marijuana and are upstanding citizens and what we would consider 'pillars of their community". Every crack, heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and meth addict I've known also smokes marijuana on a daily basis.
Is it reasonable to bludgeon the good for the sins of the bad ones? I think not. Just as most of us can enjoy a drink or ten without bothering anyone, so too can most people smoke or ingest edibles without bothering those around them. This is where the marks should be set, not at the periphery.