The nature of the weed high is to make me lose focus, and it kills the part of me that is responsible for having the motivational drive to do things, so it makes me very lazy to boot. I think about doing stuff, instead of actually doing anything when I'm stoned. I become a passive burnout even with very limited use. It also has always made me extremely panicky and anxious out of nowhere. It is the opposite of relaxing. I have never met a soul who benefitted from the use of this drug. I've known all types of people who smoke it, and the story is always the same. They will defend their overuse of weed to grave, with the same common arguments such as "it's less harmful than alcohol" while they waste thousands of dollars on their nasty bad habit that gets them nowhere except smell bad with black lungs, and makes them less interesting to be around. Every time you see these potheads they are stoned, for the obvious reason that they are very dependent on it which they will never admit to.
When I'm stoned, it really does make me stupid. I am an absolute dumbass, useless fuck when I'm baked. When I'm off the stuff, I resume the course of my life as a successful engineer. When I'm stoned, that part of my life doesn't mean shit. All I care about is being lazy and getting another hit. I will spend $20,000 on weed without thinking twice about it, while irresponsibly cutting out money from other important financials, until I regain my intellectual ability after going through the hell of withdrawal and realize how I was chasing a high that I had too much of a tolerance to feel anymore. However, due to the deluding and addictive nature of the drug, I had to fully get off the stuff before I was able to admit to that. Cannabis has a strong addictive potential, as is exemplified by my severe addiction to something that made me plain stupid and lazy. The cravings to smoke this garbage and the nightmare of withdrawal were so intense that it took me 5 years of attempts to finally quit.
I know a lot of smart people who smoke pot every day. However, all of these people are running a big risk to their long term mental health, and all of them would be better off and even smarter if they never smoked this stupid trash. Smart people are still capable of making dumb decisions, as there are many different types of intelligence. Cannabis is a parasite that attacks humanity in an attempt by mother nature to slow down the technological progress of mankind and it should be ideally be eliminated from this planet. Legalizing it would be like setting off one big dumb bomb for everyone.