[jokerthief]

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I quit it years ago too, and don't miss it. Nothing against it, but I enjoyed it plenty and kinda lost interest in getting high.

I also didn't like the way it made my lungs feel. Then again, booze isn't exactly a hero to your liver, either.

I think everyone should smoke it for at least a while, if only to get past all the completely politicized crap and government-backed lies about it, and realize it isn't a quick path to heroin, communism, and a life of child molestation. It's pretty harmless stuff, can be fun, and can open your mind up to looking at things in different ways(the main thing that makes so many people fear and hate it). It doesn't lead to anything except eating everything in the house and being really harmlessly dorky. And unless you're going to start demonizing beer and coffee and the massive legally sanctioned and doctor-encouraged use of psychopharmaceuticals to "cure" every sort of type of mental fart imaginable, it makes no sense to single out other dreugs for persecution. Aside from which, spending unbelievable amounts of tax dollars to police and criminalize this crap, create international mafias over it, and throw tons of harmless citizens into jail over it, is one of the stupidest generations-long endeavors the American people could have possibly chosen to undertake.

/rant off
/for now

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I really wish more people understood/took seriously your rant. I quit smoking bud awhile ago. I'm a guitar player and, contrary to popular belief, I have always been much more creative while sober. I am glad that I smoked however. It does give a certain degree of wisdom. If nothing else, it shows the hypocrisy of the law. I have been close to death many times because of alcohol but never because of weed. I still maintain that I'm a safer driver while high then when I'm sober. (I am much more alert and concerned about safety when high).