i think philippine(my, yours or ours) culture is not matured enough yet to handle legalization of soft drugs...
i live in amsterdam for the past 6 years, where soft drugs is tolerated ... (n.b. somewhat legal )... i can get any flavor of marijuana i like in a coffee shop, anytime... a lot of us do not know the real facts about marijuana, and one fact fact is, mas matindi pa effect ng magic mushrooms(among others) kesa sa MJ. you dont hallucinate with MJ, but with mushrooms - kaleidoscope world and dating.
its not that you smoke it, magiging violent ka na, wrong notion...MJ is a downer nga, a relaxant, similar to drinking a few bottles of beer without the heavy belly. and what do you need to do pag naka downer/relaxant ka? you stay home and sleep...yung mga peepz na nagiging violent when they smoke it, mindset lang nila yun..since we(our culture or media) made them think na magiging violent sila pag naka smoke, then they do just that: become violent.
funny thing here sa holland is, you can get caught drunk driving, but not when youre under the the influence of MJ. another fact is that holland has one of the lowest crime rate in the whole europe(maybe the world??)..if our logic says that MJ makes people crazy and violent, i guess this country has disproved us.
but just like any drug out there, pag inabuse nakakasama pa rin talaga ...BUT our notion that MJ is addictive is not TRUE. it aint addictive at all.its a mindset, and a wrong one at that. now opium, coke and heroin, those are addictive..
but in my opinion, the MJ issue, to legalize it in the phils? nope, not yet! we aint ready for it.