I think a lot of people take pot too seriously. And I also think people care wayyyy too much about it.
Yeah, I don't care if people smoke, it's no big deal. But for some people, smoking pot is ALL they do and ALL they talk about. It's ridiculous. I've smoked less than ten times, and I get nothing remarkable out of it. The way I see it it doesn't do me any good or bad. It's mostly a leisurely activity.
I know it pretty much has no harmful affects to you physically, but it can fuck shit up in mysterious ways. One of my best friends as you would say, used it as a gateway drug. After getting into pot, he thought ..hmm? what other things could I do that would get me high? Kid wound up in the hospital twice near death from pills and other things, I helped him get back on his feet after that. Tried getting him into MMA and Jiu Jitsu, but he just quit and went right back to everything including pills like adderall. The thing is, is that I don't consider him a friend anymore and I owe it all to his ex pot head/junkie ex girlfriend who got him into this shit.