[Huck]

I asked a friend who smokes pot and this is what he said:

True, and if they want to be slackers, it's their business. Free country and all. My only real complaint with pot is it gives me the munchies something awful. One decent bag of weed and I'm gonna pack on a few pounds of snacks in no time. Go on sabbatical from pot? Pounds come right off.

I've found pot to be an excellent lubricant for certain types of work--like cleaning. Back when I was a line cook, I used to smoke up before breaking everything down at the end of the night. No one had shinier stainless steel in their kitchen!

Pot increases the heart rate, and gets the brain going. That can sometimes give you scattered thoughts, and make it harder to focus on one thing. Productivity can then suffer. But if you've got the right task laid out before you, it can be quite a nice buzz. I find pot and coffee to be a nice combo. The coffee counteracts some of the unwanted side effects of the pot.

Thanks to my friend for sharing these thoughts.

[Max in Utah]

Pot is not much of a problem for those who don’t overdo it and it has some medical uses. Sometimes I wish I could smoke a little to relieve night time restless leg syndrome, because it completely relieved the symptoms in as little as five minutes. Ten minutes after that I would be asleep. A blessing!

[CDHart]

I have a friend who is on chemo and he says it's a Godsend for the nausea from chemo or any other nausea, also.

Carolyn