Quote Originally Posted by jakez
Getting bad grades, almost dropping out of school, bringing them back up and going to college and shit... this isn't stuff a pothead goes through, this is stuff a ton of people go through whether they smoke or not. I never smoked until I was like 19 but I still dropped out of high school. And now my friends with GED's are delivering pizzas and shit, while I'm driving a $50k car self employed. Life is what you make of it, weed has no say in it unless that's how you think about it.
Its true bad grades, rough times, etc. can be caused by a variety of reasons. I'm saying, for me, drug abuse (specifically of marijuana) was a primary cause of my "rough time". I have no doubt some people can smoke every day and function well. However, I would be willing to bet they aren't smoking like 50 bong hits an hour.

What I'm saying is that I abused the drug. I would smoke *a lot* of it before school and after school (right before I'd do my homework). And I wasn't smoking schwag either. When I'm somewhat high I can function okay or even very well. But when I'm "50 bong hits baked off my freakin' ass"... well, I'm baked off my ass. Its sort of like my life starts over every 20 seconds and I sort of forget the prior 20 seconds (for lack of a better way to describe it). Again, studies show that marijuana affects short-term memory.I can't even follow a movie plot when I'm baked for cryin' out load, much less a complex math algorithm in my high level computer science class.

I'm not saying smoking it is wrong, or even smoking it every day is wrong. I'm saying people need to remember to use it, not abuse it. I, for one, choose to use it on a weekly or monthly basis so the high is more recreational versus just another everyday experience.