Posted by Kendama

Look I have to be blunt I have probably been more involved in the drug scene from an early f'n age than all of you. I spent years thinking pot was the most harmless and innocent drug. And i loved bein high. Now... I look at the facts of my life

My grades dropped immensely durring critical high school years due to pot making me feel "too cool for school"

I would have $1000's of extra money if I never spent money on pot/paraphernalia.

My friends began to smoke ciggaretes and hang out at a trap house all day smoking pot. Everything revolved around smoking and getting money to smoke. They weren't having addiction cravings like they would with meth/heroin- but it's all they cared to do. Two of them used to get grades but after smoking all the time chose to drop out. It is now senior year and while most of the regular kids are graduating/going to college, these bums have no friends and smoke solitary in their house. Trust me, they rarely EVER go outside, and they are in complete bad health not worrying about what they eat or getting exercise.

It is also a gateway drug. It is. It's true.. It doesn't mean if you smoke pot you will do other drugs. It means, from a general viewpoint, pot leads to curiosity of other drugs in a large percentage of users. Nobody starts with heroin or coke or meth, its always pot.
I even remember thinking smoking legal and doing acid was not that big of a deal. I actually am happy I have done LSD in my life because the immense trips it gave me caused me to think about my life and I started to work out and eat good and such.

All in all- weed is very medicinally AND recreationally beneficial, but it can easy be abused and ruin the lives of people who do not have the maturity to limit how much they devote their lives to it. My life would be COMPLETELY different if I never smoked. different friends and reputation and everything. Don't downplay it as "harmless". It may not be medically harmful, it may have benefits, but it can set many people down less-than-desirable paths.

Marijuana and THC should definitely be limited legally to adults. I personally think any teens who haven't tried pot are probably boring and no fun, but I wouldn't want my kids to go down the path of getting into a stoner "trend". If you are not contributing a lot to society, my opinion is you have NO business wasting your time and money smoking pot.

On the up side, being high is great fun for things like music festivals/cuddling/movies/video games and it is much safer and better in EVERY way than alcohol is.