I think I can best summarize my feelings on marijuana the way one of my favorite TV Shows, South Park once did.
Stan's Dad, Randy, tells his son this about pot:
Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and ...it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorism, but... Well son, pot makes yuu feel fine with being bored and... It's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or... being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren't good at anything.
Script To The Entire Episode
I guess that's sorta how I feel about pot. Sure, it's
probably not going to be a "gateway drug" and make you start snorting cocaine, it's
probably not going to lower your G.P.A., and it's
probably not going to fund terrorism, but what it does do, is make you content with being bored all the time, and I wouldn't like that.
When you're smoking pot, you're just wasting your money, time, and brain cells. There is no purpose behind it.
It would blow me away if
one single pot smoker on this message board, could honestly look back 20 years from now, and say to me that they are
glad they smoked pot all those times.
You won't be proud of what you're doing now, someday. It seems cool and fun at this age, but someday you'll look back and ask yourself what the hell you were thinking back then.
But anyway, do whatever you want, I guess smoking pot helps the economy. Just don't ever offer me any...'cause I've got sense enough to look down the road and see what it may do to me.
-Ugly Bastard