Yes it leads to harder drugs.
"We've shown that the marijuana gateway effect is not the best explanation for the link between marijuana use and the use of harder drugs," said Andrew Moral, associate director of RAND's Public Safety and Justice unit and lead author of the study. "An alternative, simpler and more compelling explanation accounts for the pattern of drug use you see in this country, without resort to any gateway effects. While the gateway theory has enjoyed popular acceptance, scientists have always had their doubts. Our study shows that these doubts are justified."
http://www.rand.org/news/press.02/gateway.html
It makes you stink, stupid, dopey, lethargic and spacey
Smell is a personal opinion and to be honest weed smell doesn't really stick to you unless it is really damp outside, trust me i would have been busted so hard, if it did, growing up
"Similarly, healthy cannabis users showed no significant differences from healthy non-users in any of the cognitive domains"
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6883340
It is bad for your lungs, cells, teeth and breath
as i stated, there maybe bad things with it medically but then again everything is if you don't consume it in moderation, but it is no worse then legal drugs today, Tobacco, alcohol, and unless you do not consume either of them and you openly state that both alcohol and tobacco should be made illegal and a criminal act, which both of them have a way worse history then :m: is kind of hypocritical, i mean how can someone accept two items and possible consume one or both and condemn the less of the three?
You often crave junk food afterwords.
You crave a snack not necessarily junk food, personally when i get the munchies i enjoy a salad, and yes some times i will have a bowl of ice cream or bag of chips, but weed makes you enjoy food more, and you crave food in general not per say just junk food. again there is no harm in that, you're cravings can be fulfilled with a regular healthy meal.
It's a bad investment. . . Your money is better spent on good stocks.
point? Anything you do that is none essential, for leisure purposes would be better off spent on good stocks.
My opinion is from personal experience of watching pot heads, counseling them, prying them out of their crashed vehicles, helping them in the hospital, witnessing to them/getting them to church etc...
Again my personal experience, differs dramatically from your's and i am sure there are lot's more like me as there are more people out there like you.
Most car accidents involving weed, occurred while under the influence of alcohol as well , and if i smoke a joint people always say and feel safer with me because i pay much better attention to the road.
"There is no compelling evidence that marijuana contributes substantially to traffic accidents and fatalities. At some doses, marijuana affects perception and psychomotor performances- changes which could impair driving ability. However, in driving studies, marijuana produces little or no car-handling impairment- consistently less than produced by low moderate doses of alcohol and many legal medications. In contrast to alcohol, which tends to increase risky driving practices, marijuana tends to make subjects more cautious."
http://www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/factsmyths/#accidents
Oh, when i was a teenager i was an alter boy at my Sunday church, most times i was stoned on the alter.
this post is for you too cosmictraveler
