Around 30% of Spaniards have many doubts about the recreational use of cannabis. Many have tried it and know its effects.
In the eighties and nineties, the British newspaper The Independent defended the legalization of cannabis and other soft drugs in several articles. In the following decade he changed his opinion and apologized to his readers for his previous position, beginning to defend again just the opposite: maintaining the ban.
Analysing these comings and goings with perspective, about the most famous plant in history, from the newspaper The Independent, we can say that it is evident, that nothing is black or white and that the effects of cannabis on society are much less worrying than the havoc that produce other legal drugs that we live with completely normally, such as tobacco and alcohol.
Yes, it is true that human beings have used recreational drugs since they existed, and that only historical evolution justifies that cannabis is persecuted and that in all celebrations of private or public life we always toast with alcohol and/or smoke a cigar in the legal sense of the condition.
Marijuana has been here for centuries despite prohibition. The way in which we have reduced road deaths due to alcohol or cancer due to tobacco has not been by prohibiting these substances, but by informing their consumers.