Saagar's probably right about weed, but banning it will make things much worse.

The most dangerous drug in the world is alcohol. 88000 additional people die directly from the effects of alcohol every year in America alone. That's not including the increased domestic abuse, impact of alcoholism on millions of people's lives and the family and friends of those people or innocent bystanders like pedestrians and other car drivers and passengers when people under the influence of alcohol crash into them and cause grave bodily harm.

Yet we tried Prohibition. It didn't really work. It massively expanded the power and complexity of organized crime groups some of which built the infrastructure and distribution centers that are still used to this very day for illicit drugs.

Weed is not good for the cognitive health of people whose nervous systems are not yet fully developed. (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3930618/) Weed addiction is also increasingly common. (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6223748/)

While marijuana is not killing anywhere near as many as alcohol is or even at the same rate, there is very likely some amount of negative impact of marijuana for individuals who don't have an actual medical need for it. That all said, banning it would be a massive mistake.

Instead, cannabis like alcohol and even moreso like tobacco products should be taxed. Use that revenue to fund programs that continue educating children and adults on the actual impact of this drugs. Alcohol consumption is falling wi9th my generation (Gen Z), and I suspect marijuana consumption will fall with Gen alpha and the children of Gen Z. The more people become aware about the negative impact and effective alternatives with less negative impact the quicker they switch. (Diet coke now outsells regular Coke. Alcohol has found it self replaced with nonalcoholic beers and marijuana. Marijuana joints getting replaced with edibles.)

This does mean I do not support legalizing cocaine, heroin, or fentanyl (or other illicit drugs). But it does mean I support safe usage sites, using taxpayer dollars to run studies to keep furthering the science, and giving people the information they need to make informed choices about the drugs they decide to consume. Like warning labels. Banning advertising to children on TV and on Youtube.