The cannabis plant can be used for many different things, smoking is just one of them. Many medical uses are now being found where they can take one strain of chemicals out and use just it. So the person using the medication well not become "high". There is a large number of products that can be made from using the fibers of the plant, this list is very long. How about eating the buds, raw, instead of smoking them. You would be surprised at the nutritional value the buds have in raw form.

Someone said heroin and cocaine come from plants too, just as pot does. Did the person making the heroin or cocaine have to do something to those plants to get those products out of them? Yes, using chemicals you break down the plant to extract what they wanted from the plant. Now does a person have to do anything chemically to a cannabis plant to get the buds from the plant? No, just cut the plant down and there is everything you need.

It comes down to education, from facts, about the plant itself. There is tons of information out there you just have to be willing to look for it, then read it.