1. Female
2. 20-29
3. Yes, smoked and ate marijuana
4. Yes, but note that I did a ridiculous, extraordinary amount of weed, and I was just starting to get into smoking at the time (no tolerance).
5. Nausea, no vomiting. For about 30 minutes (although time perception is altered on weed so it could be for less time) till I passed out.
6. Am allergic to alcohol, and I did drink a few beers that night. I definitely think alcohol intensified my nausea.
7. Recreational, although it's not just all fun and games for me. I like to use it for introspection/deep thought, meditation, calming purposes, etc. So in that light, it could be said that I use MJ for psychological purposes, thus medical purposes.
8. No, I believe weed only intensifies your own emotions/attributes. If you're lazy to begin with, weed will just make you lazier. Since I'm lazy, weed just made it that much easier to be lazy. But in no way was weed the cause of my laziness (which has affected my life).
9. N/A
10. N/A, although I do have asthma, and weed seems to keep my asthma attacks down to a minimum (maybe bc I'm calmer all the time?).
11. I buy from an illegal source bc I have no medical reason to buy it legally.
12. No, but I've always wanted to try it. Why,do you have any?
13. Regarding availability, MJ is in reality pretty hard to find for the average person, at least where I live. Ppl here usually get weed through close friends or family members. It's not like ppl are on every street corner peddling weed (I wish it was like that!). In fact, it took me 2 years of steady searching to finally find a source of weed.

As for MJ being a gateway drug, I don't believe that to be true. If you start out using ANY drug, the average person will become curious and want to try out other drugs. The only reason why weed is singled out as the gateway drug might be bc weed is a little easier to find than other drugs (but as stated earlier, it's still hard to find and getting even harder to find), so it's most likely that your first experience with drugs is with weed. Also bc weed usually generates fun highs and rarely if ever does weed cause a bad trip. Bc of this, ppl usually end up with a good experience with MJ, causing them to imagine that other drugs can give a similar experience. But overall, like many others have said, it mainly just depends on the person.

Here in Hawaii, during the past 20 years or so, the police have been focusing on cracking down on marijuana growers and marijuana in general. I strongly feel that it is because of this MJ is now extremely hard to find in Hawaii. I also strongly feel that this is why Hawaii is now leading the nation as far as ice (crystal meth) use. I strongly feel that if the police and DEA didn't focus all of their attention on eradicating marijuana, then Hawaii wouldn't have such a big crystal meth epidemic.