Originally Posted by: schmangeBut in what way?
It doesn't hurt your brain cells on a permanent basis.
About the only thing more harmful is if you smoke a whole bag to yourself or smoke tons every day. Then you're damaging your lungs.
And it's not addictive. When you run out, you don't have withdrawal symptoms or feel obligated to commit a crime to get more money for some.
The only addictive part of it is that you like smoking and wouldn't mind having some more.
And on a side note, I'd rather smell pot than cigarrette smoke any day.
Especially American cigarrettes. They stink like cigars.[/QUOTE]
My only real quarrel with anyone that promotes pot is that they seem to forget that people all react differently to things. In my own personal experience, my mental stability does not work well with any mind altering substances. I've had plenty of bad experiences with pot. Others don't have quite as bad of experiences, but I always feel like I've been poked when people say that nothing bad ever comes from pot, because truth be known... all my experiences with it really sucked.

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As far as cigarrettes go, I quit about 20 years ago. I was coughing all the time and had a tickle in my throat. One night I couldn't get to sleep from coughing so I got up and squashed my brand new pack of smokes into dust and never smoked again. Hell, I used to smoke a pack of Export A's every day. Not only smoke em, but smoke half a cigarrette and stub it out, then relight it so it'd taste stronger.
Now I can't even stand the smell.