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Living in Washington state, I can tell you that I run into habitual pot smokers on a daily basis. Understanding that marijuana might have some derivative health uses, I want to issue a challenge: Find me one successful professional individual, that is active in their community, that uses pot on a daily basis.

Good God, this is trivial. First off, if you express your interaction with pot users as "I run into them" then than tells me you're talking about strangers on the street. Well, how do you know a stranger on the street is a pot user? Probably because he is some dumbass derelict who smokes pot between meth hits and screams that fact to the world while demanding pocket change so he can buy his next beer.

Almost by definition, responsible pot users are NOT visible to people on the street. I know a few - professionals who like pot the way others like fine scotch. If you ran into a person on the street who was an obvious drinker, what would that tell you? It would have to be someone whose drinking was at ridiculously irresponsible levels, otherwise how would you know? A responsible drinker drinks when appropriate and in private, same as a responsible pot smoker.

This sort of basic logic should be obvious, but I'm convinced that a certain amount of propaganda has been distributed to paint pot as worse than cocaine and heroin put together. Quite frankly , I consider pot more harmless than alcohol (and cheaper). Hmmm.

My experience is interacting with people for over 20 years that are habitual marijuana users. Again, I am not saying it should be outlawed, it should be up to the states.

I am glad that you know a few “professionals” that uses pot on a regular basis. But that is quiet a small sample size to make a broad sweeping generalization.

A very thoughtful post.

Therefore, you can never have smoked pot.

Also, if you were high right now, I seriously doubt you would be bothering with FR.

I agree with you and thanks for the post.