it was a personal choice for me.  all drugs i try are. no pressure to try it.  i won;t try andything that is hopelessly addictive or known to be worse than sitting in a traffic jam.
i figure weed is less harmful overall than drinking, though i do both. i do it to get a new realization, a new outlook on things i have done 10 thousand times before.  i mean playing hack gets boring, then you do it stoned its much better.
i don;t smoke when i ski becasue skiing is still fun without it, i don;t need to change my state of mind for it.  going for a walk on a nice warm day to waterloo park is fun, but it is a hell of a lot more fun stoned
more or less jsut try it if you feel like it.  can't get addicted to the softer drugs like pot or shrooms (though some claim to have been, and it does seem like it, just have self restraint).
i smoked pot mroe last year than anyother and had 106 days skiing, and had a better GPA than ever before, so don;t give me bullshit that it makes you quit things.  it may help you decide what is more important, some people just choose to be lazy stoners.  then again, alot of people who don;t smoke at all are mindlessly addicted to television.
if god created a plant and bud that i find and abuse, who the fuck are you to judge me?-fat mike.
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