drinking smoking and weed Options

[ReggieM]

Is smoking weed that harmless?I know for certain alcohol and cigs can mess up your life but other than the mtv commercials whats wrong with weed?

[cyb3r0ptik]

i used to think that pot was OMGZ so horrible.
sooooooo horrible. like... disgusting and dirty and the worst drug in the world.

until i smoked it for the first time may of last year.

and i would have to say....
during the time that i've smoked it..

i have been able to stop taking my anti-depressants, because it helps with my stress and mood levels.
i have been able to cope with my FMS (chronic pain condition called Fibromyalgia) much better than before.
aside from my own personal health, it also helps with MS, glaucoma, lung cancer, among other health issues.

and it's all in all, non medicinally, a social drug.

I've been a drinker for a long time, and i work in bars. I can easily say, I would much rather smoke a joint or a bowl, and get high, than get drunk any day.

Pot doesn't make you get up from your table and get into bar-fights, or pick fights with somebody just because they looked at you wrong. It doesn't make you act like a complete and total fool in the way that alcohol does.
Sure, you laugh a lot at the stupidest stuff (like ... your friend's face), but it can also open your creative side. I've made many graphic arts and digital pictures that i'm still super proud of when i've been under the influence of pot.
i've been able to analyze and realize things that i would never have even thought of if i were sober.
it's like a light goes off in your head and out of nowhere you think "omg! i just realied that the reason why i dont like ______ is because ____________ happened! no, seriously dude, think about it!" and you go off on your story and everybody understands.

what do you get from drinking?
a night of puking? bruises that you can't explain? hungover?

how often do you hear about high-driving accidents as opposed to drunk-driving accidents? how often do you hear about fights that happen when people are high, as opposed to drunk people?

i mean, granted, any kind of smoke you inhale into your lungs is going to be hazardous, but pot is nowhere near as harmful as cigarettes. considering the fact that avid pot smokers will smoke 2, maybe 3 joints a day... maybe more, if your'e more social... 5 joints a day, but still....
avid cigarette smokers will smoke up to 1-2 packs a day. (that's 20-40 cigarettes a day)

pot isn't legal because the government will not be able to tax it.
you can grow it yourself relatively easy... a hell of a lot easier than it is to make your own alcohol.
they tax the hell out of cigs, and alcohol. they can't make money off of pot, and they wouldn't be able to control the "drug trafficking" that would surely go into overdrive if it was legal.