About unintended consequences:
If pot becomes legal, which I hope never happens, will it be legal for the food companies too? Of course it will. Legal means legal. Will food companies offer brownies laced with marijuana? Marijuana cookies? Marijuana baked into pizza crust? How about many other baked goods like bread, muffins, cakes, and pies?
Other unintended consequences: 63% of people are already overweight and obese. If marijuana is given to elderly people (and others) to treat poor apetite, don't you think it will have the same effect on everyone eles who uses it? So what will the general effect be on the U.S. population? Will we have ever rising numbers of overweight/obese people? Diets are already being undermined in various ways, and this will just add to it, in my opinion.
When marijuana users get the "munchies", they don't get the munchies for healthy whole foods. They get the munchies for high-calorie salty snack-foods like chips 'n' dips, cheese 'n' crackers, or sugary items like pie 'n' ice cream etc..
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