No more then drinking beer in my opinion, not that I have ever seen one drunk, but they may of been over the Australian limit to drive a car say of 0.05 but so what that means bugger all at 0.05 to most people who do drink.
So as to smoking weed well that depends on what type of weed they are smoking. even if I were to have a puff of a normal legal smokes that would blow me away for 5 min I would think, but back in the 1980s when I did smoke some dope leaf and tip of the day was nothing, you were not blown away but just happy like.
Their is a huge difference on what it is that you are smoking, but the question is why are you smoking ?
The crap that people smoke is rubbish nowadays I am sure, only to get smashed like a moron, but it does not have to be such rubbish.
Thank you for input...Here is the deal. I started this thread as a discussion. I am not looking to judge, not looking to play holier than thou. Or how powerful the pot is, I am not concerned with the grades. I am looking for useful information...the real...from real people. I understand the experience...and some of the why's, peer pressure, social acceptance...etc But I am looking for why they continue....is there a possibility of a happy ending. I get it a lot that people try to compare it to alcohol, it is not, other than of altered states. Alcohol does not have the culture or gang affiliation that drugs do. How many examples of life long or extend use scenarios do you have that end with a happy ending. And I am not really talking about hospice or cancer. Some example that a person with a family had a "normal life" that pot improved or even coexisted. Something along those lines.