Why do you smoke Cannabis?

who dosnt want to be high.

Not trying to offend anyone, this is complete opinion.
I find that smoking all the time, or even once a day, everyday, really doesn't suit My ideal version of life. It dumbs me down, slows me down, and the high isn't really so spectacular (a.k.a. cherished). If I smoke a lot, in a small period of time, I get to the point of really really desiring complete sobriety. I dislike the lingering effects, I want high, not high. Not High, semi high, dumb, slow, fazed, Normal.
However, if you take all of that into account, cannabis is one of life's greatest gifts. It can turn Any Good day, into a Romantic, Dream-like, absolute-fucking-incredible day. If I'm stressed out or in pain or suffering the blues, A few puffs and all of that is turned around. And the strange thing, when I go back to being sober, just the lingering Memory of being high is enough to end any stress, or blues.
I found that I don't really like smoking with other people so much, it takes a very special relationship to find myself comfortably enjoying the high with other people.
If you do it right, with the right supplies and the right settings, a session can become therapeutic, relaxing, exhilirating, extremely entertaining, or simply fun. Sadness, Evil, Darkness, they have no place in a good stone. It
reminds me of flying. The airport was stormy, frosty with rain. But once we took off, and got above the clouds, it was a sunny, beautiful day. If it's already a sunny beautiful day... Then it's one of the best days of your life.
We only live once. I want this one chance to be one of the best expiriences my soul will ever have, at least in human-expirience respect.
It's sad that cannabis-users have been so closely tied to hard drug users, evil criminals, the dregs of society.
Most of us are the coolest, chillest people you'll ever hang with.

I smoke pretty regularly (pretty much every day) and I do it for the same reason I do my other hobbies. I enjoy it. Just like I enjoy fishing, golfing, shooting, long drives. It's a fun way to pass the time. Which all life is. I enjoy myself.

Thanks to everyone who responded, I really appreciate it.

Inferius, that was well said.

I think that at the beginning, the way I used Cannabis was not abusive. That was so long ago that I'm not even sure when it became something different to me. I have genuinely enjoyed this break from smoking, and it has really made me think about what were my reasons for blazing. I would not like to admit it, but Cannabis was owning me in one way or another. A nasty perpetuation that I was caught in the middle of.

I have a great respect for this plant, much more so now that I've stepped back off of it. I feel much more grateful for what it really is, and the things that it can do to help people, if used correctly. I think William Blake said something like, 'the road to enlightenment is through excess.' I wouldn't recognize Cannabis for what it really is unless I had gone too far with it, and now that I have, I feel much more humbled. Being blazed all the time is not as glorious as I used to believe, haha. I look forward to the day when I will be able to smoke with genuinely good intentions. Harvest time is about five weeks away......................

Thanks again to everyone for responding, it has helped me sort this out with myself. Much love and respect.

It gets me high.

I'm actually trying to commit suicide but no joy yet just stoned everyday

I heard it was a gateway drug and my ambition is to be a heroin addict and a convicted psychopathic killer so naturally the best way to start my career was to smoke pot.
Its not working. Maybe Im smoking it wrong.

I used to abuse it quite a bit.
I was stuck in a rut, in the middle of a seemingly constant identity crisis. I was trying to analyze who I was and why I acted, thought, perceived, and felt the way I did. When I first started smoking weed, it allowed me to explore states of consciousness and types of thought I had never experienced before. It enabled me to think geometrically and spatially, for the first time. So I'd get high then start analyzing my life from these multiple new perspectives. I also because obsessed with psychological profiling, and different aspects of neuroscience. But I got so caught up in it that I wound up socially alienating myself, and suffering extreme depression and anxiety from waay too much research and analysis. After a few months I knew who I was on paper, but had no clue how to actually be that person.
It caused me to turn an apathetic shoulder on the other aspects of life, and after awhile I was taking in way less information then I was analyzing. It caused me to fall into a deep rut of pointlessness and apathy. And since I couldnt move my brain out of hyper reasoning mode, I wound up being rather pedantic when I communicated with the outside world.
Consequently, through quitting weed and focusing on school, I went through a notable personality shift. I've since stopped being so obsessive with the sciences, and although I still understand myself quite well, I dont obsessively read into it.
I recently started smoking again, but now I force myself to limit analysis. When I smoke, I have these awesome geometric hallucinations, that trancendentally connect whatever I'm thinking about in an absolutely beautiful and fascinating way. These days, when I smoke, I do it to relax, enjoy changes in perceptions, and get in touch with things. Sometimes I'll sit with a notebook and write down whatever is coming to mind.
I also have ADD. When I smoke, it lets me switch from the frantic, changing, associating radial thought processes that can often plague an ADDer, to a more pleasant, linear fashion.
For example, instead hearing someone say "That's intense" and thinking "Haha, camping, 'in tents'" or something similiarly irrelevant, I'll be able to think "Hmm, yeah that really is pretty intense", and carry out the conversation from there.

Cause I love the taste and the way it makes me chill when Im stressed .Theres nothin betta than gettin home from work and relaxin with afew bongs of wicked bud,its more than a habit its a lifestyle for me.

I smoke to clear my mind sometimes...from all the stress in life, sometimes, I have a hard time not worrying about shit. It also makes any movies I watch even better.