I think pot is better than alcohol because people have much more control when they are high as opposed to being drunk. Plus you don't get hangovers and the buzz is gone after a couple hours. However, I used to be a heavy pot user, and after doing that for a long time, I started experimenting with other drugs like shrooms, acid and meth. This was about 2.5 years ago, and I was completely f*cking my life over. Staying up for a week straight while on crank is one of the most awful things you can put your body through.
Finally, one night I got way too f*cked up. I ate an eighth of shrooms, smoked about a 20-sack of pot and drank two forties. I was having the most intense hallucinations and visuals and was sh*tting my pants out of fear.
The next morning, I was incredibly depressed. I hated what I was doing to myself. I felt terrible for doing all this stuff behind my mom's back, and knew she would be heart broken if she knew what I had become. I've smoked pot a couple of times since then, and haven't touched any other drug. I'm completely clean now, and thankfully, I'm still alive, not in prison, and my brain still fully functions.
So my point is, pot is fun. It seems harmless, and I know a lot of people that can still function on it. But it really is a gateway drug, and the reason I think it should still be illegal is to protect people from themselves.
When you're on drugs, you fall in to a completely different world. But after awhile, you get so caught up in this false reality, that you become completely out of touch with the real world. If you're lucky, you can see how it destroys your life and get out of it before it's too late.
So I'm going to vote for "pot should NOT be legal for recreational use". If you've never done it, don't. It's not worth it. Don't risk ruining your life. I think it could have benificial medical purposes, but that's it.
I still drink, and I'm working on cutting back, but alcohol is a walk in the park compared to what I've done. I'm also a full-time college student and have a very good office job now, but only because I quit doing drugs.
It all started with pot.
