@SacredDigits

I can respect that, at least your critisism comes from actual experience.
I've always been something of an "active-stoner", so i don't really see it as a drain

I smoked on a handful of occasions and never really saw the pull of it. I got really high once and couldnt stop laughing which was funny for a bit. But otherwise it was really nothing special. Id get drunk or take mushrooms hands down.

I dunno, I hate the taste of shrooms, but at the same time, I hate that shaky feeling you get when you come down from acid. So really, it was all about when I wanted to hate life: before the trip or after. Acid was more intense, but shrooms were more...I dunno, less likely to get you in serious trouble.

@Sacred....I was *very* creative when stoned. wrote some fantastic papers. Even wrote one....first and only draft....that made it into the next semester's classwork. I found pot to be *extremely* motivating!

Maybe I smoked the wrong pot.

Or maybe it's true what they say, "It accentuates your personality" and I'm just naturally lazy.

I think I need to smoke about a pound of bud after this match. gameID=66618

"It accentuates your personality". Yea, but what if you're an asshole?!?

Thanks for getting it, Pantera. :)

In my early days of smoking it used to make music sound amazing. Really amazing. I got turned on to heaps of music that previously did nothing for me because I heard it when I was bent.
I also used to enjoy films more (not anymore because I fall asleep).
Also if I watched documentaries I used to get really profound thoughts like "wow... people live in China! And speak Chinese to each other!" (not really profound but it used to seem profound in a kind-of Bill and Ted way).

@spyman

Incredibly true. I used to get stoned and draw these really abstract, profound, metaphorical meanings from things that are impossible to understand in a sober state

Two Marijuana truths (for the "secret" smokers)

1. It DOES affect you.

2. People can tell that you've smoked that day. In other words, it's not a secret.

Now I don't smoke, and I really am not very fond of pot. For a couple reasons.

1) It reeks, absolutely reeks.

2) I dislike the idea of losing control over my actions, and potential brain damage (which can occur from lighting up too young.)

3) It destroy's social gatherings for me. Someone lights up and I have to leave, I can't stand the smell.

4) Laced weed.

That said I'm in favour of a law to make smoking and possession of a small amount of it legal including growing 1-2 plants, though not the selling of it. I have some friends who do it and I have a great deal of respect for, and while it isn't a lifestyle choice for me. I'm cool with it being their lifestyle choice, and I don't feel they should be arrested for lighting up.

@damian 1 and 3 I can understand. As for 2, my understanding is that it can aggravate symptoms of schizophrenia in teenagers if smoked heavily. 4 is an urban legend.

@AverageWhiteBoy

Laced weed is in no way an Urban Legend. They're are some really shitty dealers who lace their stuff.

No so sure about urban legend...
http://www.schizophrenia.com/prevention/streetdrugs.html

Their ARE extremely shitty dealers who will do things like sell you a combination of meth and heroin and call it "ecstasy." There are economic reasons for that. But lacing pot simply doesn't happen. It's the cheapest drug there is. There is no economic incentive to cut it, and nothing worth cutting it with.

And no, the schizophrenia thing is not an urban legend. Lacing is.

Not true, some dealers will lace their stuff to either:
A) get you addiccted to harder stuff that you must then buy from them
B) give you some form of "roofie" and put you in a position where you can be taken advantage of

In my job I see the drain booze has in society every single day so many resources and money are wasted I have only ever been to one person who had a panic attack due to weed

If you live for pot, you're a loser, and the reason why people hate most people who smoke- like beer, or anything else- it has it's place in life if it doesn't consume you. EVERYTHING in moderation I say. I haven't smoked in about 6 months, but would never discount it's attributes...
For those who have psychiatric issues- don't use it

Maybe laced weed is an urban legend were you are. But not around here.

As dangerous in some ways as laced weed is padded weed. There's a number of other herbs that look like...herb and are cheaper to get. So an unscrupulous dealer can fill his weed out with oregano and whatnot. Not only are you getting ripped off, but not all of those plants are as...smokeable...as weed itself and could cause problems.

Pot can make mundane chores quite tolerable. Get high, put some music on the headphones and wash the shit out of the dishes. If I get high enough I can clean the whole damn house.

I don't use marijuana because it is terrible for your health. Anyone who says otherwise is blowing smoke. It has its place in medicine, but it's kind of like chemotherapy. It is a near miracle drug for certain conditions, but it harms you as much as it helps you.

As a police officer, I am responsible for arresting users. It is kind of annoying to arrest people for a soft drug like weed, but it is not that big of a distraction from real crime (where I work). I don't make that many drug arrests because I work in an area that doesn't have a big drug problem.

Alcohol is worse for your health

Hmmm... COPD from smoking MJ or scirosis of the liver from alcohol abuse. Seems both have their health issues and neither very good. But alcohol only directly affects the health of the person drinking where as pot has second hand smoke issues the same as tobacco.

Alcohol effects far more than the liver,can and frequently does cause epilepsy,diabetes,causes high blood pressure and that's just for starters,and copd is such a catch all phrase doesn't necessarily have to be dangerous

OK, how about cancer and diabetes and high blood pressure for smoking as well. Most of what you just listed can be attributed to *both*.

Diabetes and smoking I don't think so u got proof,and I thought we were just talking about weed causual user doesn't smoke enough to do much harm whereas even a casual drinking is effecting their health

Diabetes and smoking...

http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/prevention/checkup-america/smoking.html

You think wrong, now don't you.

I'm a type 2 diabetic. I know what I'm talking about.