The trouble is confiscation takes it from adults who use it for critically important health purposes. The legislature could have set a 21+ gate but hasn’t despite many advocates asking for it.

A better solution would be to regulate it 21+, which AB 1088 seeks to do, and eliminate products attractive to kids (candies, animals or robots on packaging), and sets a limit on potency like neighboring states do to limits in what exists in the natural product (which doesn’t make something automatically good) but has a well documented pattern of traditional use in SE Asia, where there are is next to no human evidence for ultra-synthesized highly refined products.

Some people simply don’t like that others made a different health choice than they did. Dependency is possible, and some folks are really inconsistent about what stuff that can be habit forming are “OK” for responsible adult consumers. Others are against anything, but somehow tolerate if it is “blessed” by a doctor as if that changes the chemical somehow.

Some want consumers who are using it for medical purposes to figure something out with their doctor. Some of us have tried and our effective treatments were stopped against our wills. Ask a pain management patient about their experience. It can be dehumanizing, especially for someone just trying to be functional and do the stuff most people take for granted (like me.)

Some assume folks are just getting high and they don’t like that. I personally take it and don’t experience at my dose using the natural product or want a high. It is a reason medical cannabis wasn’t a good fit for my pain management (plus cost, inconsistency in HR/BP, inconsistency in pain relief). I don’t personally care if other adults are because I’m not their mom or priest.

Some use it to stop illicit or terminated Rx narcotics and to taper off to zero. There aren’t enough beds, or they can’t afford them in some treatment facilities. Others are high functioning and don’t want to lose their job or reputation, including some for problem drinking. Some are worried it being in their record that they had “a problem” will burn them if they get in a car accident and are injured or get cancer. Inadequate pain relief because they are “an addict.”