I know what point you were getting at and that's entirely true there are a lot of drugs out there that can do more harm than good, but the reason I asked you "do people take this drug for recreation" was because weed is something that more than too many people do without even understanding the harm it can do. Alot of the drugs that are prescribed by doctors or that you see on the tv are man made drugs and the side effects are displayed and available for you to understand and take heed. When do you see commercials or ads stating the dangers of merijuana?
It's purely ignorance at its best and the people who smoke on a daily basis only focus on the way it makes them feel not what it's doing to them or how it can effect them long term.
To say that merijuana is a cure for cancer is a fucking joke.