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What are your opinions on people who use marijuana?

Recreationally rather than medically. Do you perceive them as bad people or totally the opposite? In my opinion, I prefer it to people smoking tobacco and it doesn't bother me in the slightest (although I don't really use it myself). Any other added thoughts?

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  • 9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    As someone who enjoys the odd recreational drug (and may I add an A* student with bright prospects) whatever people choose to do to their bodies is their own business.

    In my opinion cannabis is safer and more beneficial than alcohol. Alcohol has no benefits as far as I'm aware other than making you extremely cocky and idiotic. Have you ever heard of cannabis induced fights, rapes or abuse?

  • timmer
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Whether or not someone uses marijuana is not a characteristic you should use to form an opinion of that person. I have known incredibly kind, intelligent, successful people who smoked pot regularly in their young adult years, and I've known plenty of jerks who never touched the stuff! I don't use pot becuase it's illegal, but I strongly feel it should be legalized, taxed, and regulated for safety. If I could smoke weed legally and know it was a safe product produced by a reputable company, I would enjoy smoking pot and would probably drink less. Let's hope some day politicians wake up. Back to your original question though, consider forming an opinion on whether people should use marijuana, rather than forming an opinion about the person based on their use of marijuana.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I smoke it and I'm not a lazy lay about like one of the comments says. I've been work since I was 15 and have Never been out of a job. I pay my tax and bills, so why can't I be allowed to have a relaxing smoke after a hard days work? It's not like I'm going to be staggering around the town center, vomiting and pissing in the street or starting fights and shouting all the time, which is a common sight in the town center, at the weekend, when everyone is drunk...

  • 9 years ago

    Personally it doesn't bother me. It's there decision to smoke. People will have there opinions for their actions but it's never nice to judge. I don't smoke but I know a lot of people that do, and let me tell u that they are some of the greatest people u will ever meet;)

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It doesn't bother me, and although I had never SEEN it before (until quite recently), it does seem to make some people talk extremely loud and be paranoid about EVERYTHING. (A couple of my housemates are recreational pot smokers, and while they seem to take it fine, their girlfriends display both of these behaviours.)

  • 9 years ago

    I can't criticise, because I enjoy a G&T/ glass of wine/beer, which are my drugs of choice, though it's strange perhaps that I would not even consider trying m.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    why do i need to have an opinion on people smoking marijuana ??

  • 9 years ago

    No they are not bad people, mostly brain dead lay abouts that contribute nothing to society, but no, theyre not bad people.

  • 9 years ago

    The same way I feel about people who drink, have premarital sex, eat, breath, abuse children, and worship them selves.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    I think it's nobody else's business but their own.

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