Some fact's: Weed dispensaries do not sell hard drugs and they pay taxes, the earned money go's back in to the community true the spending of the employee or owners pay-check. "Normal" (most common street) dealers in US often sell soft drug......s (weed) but also hard drugs (coke,meth,crack) the chance of getting in contact with these hard drugs is much bigger when you have a policy of prohibition, they do not pay taxes and have the possibility to invest the earned money in other illegal activities maybe even terrorism ;). The only way to have some harm reduction is true legalizing or some kind of regulation (example: http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2009/11/transform-launch-new-guide-to-legal.html) . So there are clear rules and guidelines for quality of the product, price, strength. And if the user will not be fined or send to jail for using, he can ask for help and addiction counselling because they will not be sent to jail (fear), true this the problematic users will have an early chance (every time they buy) to ask for addiction counselling and the vendor plays a big role in this as well they need to be qualified and have a good knowledge of the product and of the health risk true the different way's of use, they must be able to explain this very clear to the user's/customers to reduce the little harm there is.
You can get addicted to every substance on earth. The difference between hard drugs en soft drugs is that you can subconsciously create a mental withdrawal to every substance on earth inc. a softdrug like weed. With hard drugs there is a mental withdrawal but also a physical withdrawal there lies the difference. Alcohol is a hard drug, cannabis sativa/indica (weed) is a soft drug it does not matter if it will get stronger in thc content the substance thc is still a soft drug (if you have problems with stronger weed just use less, do not talk crap about it and do not use the stronger weed as an argument because it's just BS normal people know that a 25cl glass of beer is less dangerous than a 25cl glass of vodka beacuse the one is stronger then the other).( It is impossible to have n overdose on thc witch leads to death by the substance itself (source wikipedia: tetrahydrocannabinol)proven overdose that leads to death figures: LD50 (rat's) 1270(m), 730(f) oral (dissolved in sesame oil) mg/kg
LD50 (mice) oral : 482 mg/kg.) Learn the fact's form an honest opinion with the goal of harm reduction on the back of your mind because health/freedom is important.
Some fact's: Weed dispensaries do not sell hard drugs and they pay taxes, the earned money go's back in to the community true the spending of the employee or owners pay-check. "Normal" (most common street) dealers in US often sell soft drug......s...