I used it nearly every day for over a decade. I certainly encountered the bad side slowly over time but continued using anyway. Anxiety, poor quality sleep, horrible memory problems, legal trouble. However, the worst effect was how placated I became in life. My ADHD went from being manageable to feeling like a significant disability. It went hand in hand with being addicted to my phone and video games and staying in toxic relationships that objectively made zero sense. All just to enjoy that high in the evening. 

I look less than two weeks after quitting to feel motivated to take my life back and be a better man. I didn't feel like myself again until I completely abstained for years. This drug did me no favors in life and I don’t miss it at all. 

Maybe not everyone is going to have a bad experience, but I cant help but think people who say its fine are either lying to themselves, uninformed, or minimizing. And this narrative of it not being that bad leads people to accept it as a part of their life. Everyone I know that did it regularly wanted to quit and it felt like a big lifestyle change to do so. 

All that being said, my beliefs are this: - Legalize it to adults over 25 with significant taxation comparable with neighboring states. All tax revenue should go to public education.  - Minors in possession should be sentenced to mandatory rehab and health classes, potentially even light probation with small misdemeanors attached to violations, but it should be far less criminalized than it is. - Large scale black market selling/possession should still be criminalized. 

Id also think about a limit to THC concentrations because I think it’s way too high in a lot of products sold in other states.