Reply to "Friends have said marijuana is healthier than alcohol"

hi

Teo and everyone how are ya? I followed your link to this message board and like it already.

Marijuana like any other thing can be detrimental if heavily used. Although they say more people have died from eating cheese than from smoking marijuana, to me its not a matter of death but rather of living your life more fully. It affects you more than just physically and not in a completely objective measurable way as we are all different. its good in some ways and not in others.

now I must tell you that I have been smoking it for at least 12 years (I'm 29 now) as I have an addiciton to it. Personally, it makes me so lazy that I sit there and do nothing and feel as if life is passing me by when I could be doing so much for myself and others even. so Last month I decided to quit and have smoked only like twice since (which is really good for me since i usually smoke it from morning till night). and I have been more active and seeing things a bit clearer lately.

sometimes, though, when used for spiritual insight I have felt that I could understand some things deeper than in my normally sober frame of mind. BUT I am just beggining meditation and agree with Inda with the natural high theory and dont quite subscribe to completely avoiding psychcoactive substances, because man mushrooms and acid I feel tell me so many of the universes secrets ( i know I sound like a total druggy), I didnt know much about any religion when I first took acid, but while on it the first time I saw teh entire universe as One. I became a spiritual person at this point. I was about to give up on teh idea of there even being a god until I experienced this. my only source of spiritual knowledge came from catholics and baptists and I wasnt comfortable at all with it.

but anyway just wanted to share my thoughts on this. I am not saying that everyone should or everyone shouldnt smoke or drink or whatever. it all depends on how you appraoch it.

<3 Glenn <3