[hristov]

I cannot answer your question because I have only used pot two or three times in my life, but I can give you some advice: don't take the word of a drug user about whether drugs are good or bad for you. Drug users, like most people tend to suffer from self delusion, and you really do not want to be a victim of that.

There are very few people in the world that can be brutally honest about themselves and their lives. Very few people are willing to admit that a voluntary choice they took has caused a serious permanent damage in their lives.

[endlessvoid94]

While I agree with the second part, I think it's a fallacy to connect it with a fictitious group of people labelled "drug users".

True, there is a class of people who "use" drugs and a class of people "abuse" drugs, but in the common vocabulary, there's unfortunately no distinction between the two. And there really ought to be.

We (society) get all of the negative consequences of drug abuse and none of the positive consequences of responsible drug use.

[roel_v]

You're basically saying that only non-users can make a cost/benefit analysis of drug use. One could equally well claim that a portion of non-users have an anti-drug bias for self-justification reasons. Where does one draw the line? The only solution is to not rely on 'opinions' and naked theory, but on data. Which is hard, but even when accounting for error margins, there is to the best of my knowledge no reason to accept that people who have at one point in their lives illegally used controlled substances have a statistically significant bias that distorts everything that comes from them.

[r0s]

There is no evidence to back up your bogus, overreaching claim. You make no distinction between use and abuse.