I'd dry-vape it if it was legal, not because I give two shits what our backwards law says (in UK), but because I'd like to know what I'm getting.. I wanna walk into a place knowing it's clean, not laced with any extra junk and has the strain as well as the approx. percentages of Cannabinoids etc. in it. Ideally I'd grow my own exactly as I need it.
I've suffered from Depersonalisation/Derealisation since I was 12 (due to chronic stress in the lead up to a Leukaemia diagnosis at the time). DP/DR can be induced by weed, but it's due to the THC. When it's the right strain and is paired with higher CBD it'll actually lessen it. Naturally, if I do want it, I have to avoid high THC strains.
I also suffer from Akathisia which was permanently induced by SSRIs that I never should have been prescribed in my teens. I've tried a couple well balanced strains and the relief from the nearly-endless torture of Akathisia was wonderful. If I could source that consistently it'd be a godsend.
I'm absolutely in favour of liberty and I think it can have tremendous benefits for a lot of people, but the main issue we face with it is ultra-high, unnatural levels of THC alongside a lack of other cannabinoids. The stuff your parents had might have been 6-12% THC if they were lucky and there was a healthy entourage effect from all the other cannabinoids (CBD especially, as well as CBG/CBN). Nowadays we're batting up against 25% THC skunk with CBD and other cannabinoids being practically non-existent. And that's before you get to edibles which are both altered in their effects and about five times stronger due to how our metabolism handles it.
I also think the edible doses they have in the US are kinda ridiculous, putting high doses into half a small gummy is going to do nothing to help the image.
We don't need conversations of "weed good, weed bad" based on a monolithic, generalised concept of the stuff and peoples' preconceived notions of it one way or the other. But a nuanced conversation of the types of weed, delivery mechanisms, personal liberties and providing information/education. It is neither intrinsically harmful or negative or completely harmless and positive.
It needs to be fully legalised as a matter of personal liberty first and foremost, so that those with health issues can use it, so that research can be done in regards to different strains/compositions and how they effect predisposed individuals' mental health; and so that those who wish to have it recreationally can identify what types they like and inform themselves better about what choices they make.
Commercial taxation should be tiered based on a mix of both absolute THC levels and THC:CBD ratios; testing for commercial sale should be standardised and regulated in regards to strain, composition-reporting/advertising and pollutants/lacing. Growing should be legal for personal use and sharing (grower assumes responsibility); and private sale should be licensed up to a small limit.