I've smoked for half my life, and will continue to do so.

I don't believe in people using weed to relieve stress or get away from things though, you should always face reality.

I smoke it cus over the years i've slowly began to love it, not only for the high it brings but the plant itself. Each strain has a different feel and buzz to it and can give you different feelings of emotion.
People could look at that and say i smoke it cus i'm clearly hooked from the years of smoking it, and they are probably right 10%, i can't deny that smoking for so long has led to me smoking it everyday. But the other 90% is my choice, i choose to do it and enjoy smoking it. It hasn't made me any less of a person for doing so, if anything it's expanded the ammount of people i know and am associated with. Conversations can go on for hours, just on one topic, and the focus some smokes can give me when drawing or thinking of ways to progress my company is immense.
I smoke before i play for my football team at the weekends and set up a goal most weeks, i like to think its cus i've smoked a little something for the inspiration and creativity :p

Overall, weed is just a plant like any other but because people make money from it the governments of our countries don't like that, so make it illegal. Sad to think that alcohol, something that kills thousands of people per year either directly or indirectly, is legal yet weed, a plant, is illegal.

good. i started at 13 and now my mind is ****ed. what i would suggest if you want to smoke weed is to wait till your a bit older. Aparantly weed stops some part of your brain from developing though im not 100% sure on it.