Is pot smoking evil?!

[Dark Jaguar]

Fair enough, but if this doesn't permanently alter my brain chemistry to a point where my personality changes, intelligence lowers, etc., then where's the harm? My personality, or what makes me ME as you put it, hasn't changed dramatically or at all negatively since taking up cannabis as a hobby. Maybe your policy of how you treat your own body differs from mine, but that doesn't mean I should be restricting from having my own policy. That'd be just as bad as if someone forced you to smoke cannabis.



I don't have a strong grasp on how caffeine or nicotine affect my brain chemistry, but that doesn't make me run screaming in the other direction when someone offers me a smoke or asks if I'd like a small coffee with my donut.

I hardly "run screaming in the other direction". Is that how you view people who are clean of the stuff, as a bunch of tightwads who don't know how to have a good time? In fact, in the one occasion I have been offered the stuff, I simply politely declined. I will add that the person who offered it was also polite and respected that.

I actually don't smoke nicotine either, and it's beyond me why anyone who grew up in the era where pictures of horribly blackened lungs were routinely given to children as birthday presents would actually want to take up that habbit.

As for caffiene, I usually don't bother with it (in fact I only get the stuff with cocoa at this point, as I hate the taste of everything else with that in there now). I've noticed that some people "can't wake up without their morning joe", which is odd because I'm pretty sure they used to wake up just fine until they got addicted to the stuff. Mind you, that stuff actually is specifically measured out into the drinks it's put in, though for flavor rather than for full effect and it's by drink companies and not medicine companies.

Anyway, not once here have I said there SHOULD be a law, just that I don't much care about forming an opinion on the actual law, and that it's stupid to smoke the stuff. In fact I specifically said what you do to your own body, save if it endangers others, is your own business. That said, I'm free to openly criticize your choice and say your "body policy" or whatever you call it is not very healthy. I mean it's still smoke we are talking about here. It can still cause lung cancer if nothing else, and it isn't nothing else, as it does cause memory issues. But, your choice. You won't die from it, and the smoke is actually less likely to kill you than tobacco, so hey, you've got that going for you.

But seriously, everyone's got some vice or another. lazy's is obvious, I lack basic empathy, you know the usual.