HN Reader

"Critics have long denounced marijuana as a gateway drug to riskier substances. Some day it could be considered a life-saving one."

That denunciation only ever came from people with low life experience and oversimplified mental models of "bad".

Because they are the original hippies? Does this really have to be a question/article.

Uh, the generation that made getting high an art form are now seniors?

Really poor example for grandchildren etc. Particularly now that plenty of evidence that marijuana can cause psychosis, depression in a subset and a decrease in ambition and drive, and increasingly a cause of traffic accidents.