Reply #39: I agree with all that

[ForrestGump]

but that still doesn't mean that marijuana is somehow 'good for you.' Alter your consciousness as much as you want, as long as you're not hurting anyone else, for all I care.

I'd rather have all my faculties intact and, frankly, see absolutely no benefits in drugging myself up on anything, no matter what the circumstances. That's my choice. Amd I 'betetr off' for eschewing marijuana and other drugs, alcohol included? I'm sure I am. But, whatever....

But if some idiot who's nutted out on an addictive chemical messes with my life - and, yes, statistically, I'm sure that alcohol would be the prime culprit - then they are no longer just some jolly drunk or druggie. Like many people, I've had this happen to me and I have zero empathy for the mind-altered f***wit who's lost control. Again, I'm aware that marijuana users perhaps rarely get any more intrusive than ocassionally being really annoying to try to get sense out of.....it's alcohol that's been the catalyst for the mind-altered-freak incursions into my life.