Just adding my 2 cents.... I have been smoking for over 25 years now and I smoke everyday. I have gone periods of time without smoking but personally I just like the peacefull sence it brings. As for being lazy and not getting things done, well that is a lack of self control and allowing pot to run your life.

I work full time in technical support and I can tell you being buzzed at work sure helped me stay mellow and not blow up on some of the stupidest people in the world. As for being parainoid, you should have gotten over that the first year of smoking, know it's not real and don't give into it.

I will take smokers over drinkers any day of the week. Smokers are generally peacefull people, drinkers loose all self control, the personallity changes are terrible and just how absolutly stupid people are who are drunk.... I can show you thousands of articles on a drunk driver killing someone.... please tell me how many stories are there of someone who smoked a joint. Also, please tell me who gets into more fights for no reason at all, definitly not a smoker. I enjoy smoking a couple of joints with friends and getting into some really deep discussions... try that drunk with a group of people, the intelligent thing that will come out of that is who can blow the biggest fart fires.

Yes, you can have pot control your life but if you control it instead of the other way it can make looking at such an ugly world not quiet so ugly.