I'm personally hoping that cannabis get's legalised and i've been smoking it since i was about 13 (smoking most days), bearing in mind i'm coming up to my 16th birthday in about 2 months. I used to lack motivation to life in general, hated people, hated school, hated my family (i'm ashamed to say it but i did) and worst of all i was pretty suicidal to be perfectly honest but since i started smoking it my life has improved: A* student in school now, my hatred for people and my family has died and in general i'm a lot happier now.
I'm not saying it's all pros because frankly my memory isn't the greatest now and my eye to hand coordination has pretty much disappeared but that's all the bad side effects i've had. Personally i think it should be legalised for several reasons:
I recently got pulled by the cops and i got searched.. they found about half gram of some nice weed, i was pretty sad to see it go, and if i get caught again i'll be in a lot of sh*t (criminal record, fines, therapy, drug tests and my house will most probably be searched and i don't want that). I've learnt my lesson though, if i'm going to break the law i best not get caught.
I also personally believe it's better than most legal drugs, for most people anyway, it's relatively non-addictive (i say relatively because i've met people willing to steal money in triple digits from their family, this is what i expect from an addict).
It would help fight the war on drugs that actually need fighting, like heroin and cocaine, especially in my local area as theres a major heroin problem...
That's all from me.
I've also seen people make hash with car tyres, that cannot be good for you.
It is, the cop that caught me the other day said that if i'm brought in again i'll have a criminal record for it and won't be able to leave the country and that'd ruin my plans to go to Amsterdam one day