
Stoner here, but I didn’t start taking cannabis until my 30s. I’m firmly in the camp of not giving drugs to anyone until their brain has finished developing - which includes alcohol, too. Intoxicating substances impact neuron growth and produce negative outcomes for people who haven’t finished maturing yet.
What happens if someone is illegitimately removed from this database? How can you show whether it was a glitch, or deliberate? How do you know if the information they have about you is even right, or get it changed if you need to? Where’s the accountability?
See the UK Post Office accounting scandal, in which a persistent computer error went unfixed for decades and caused hundreds of post office employees to be fired and dragged through courts for corruption that never happened. A good chunk of them committed suicide. The government and the software company both knew about the bug causing the issue, too, but prosecutions continued. “If the computer says it, it must be right”, sort of danger.