A surprising number of potheads don't actually respect it when others dislike the effects of weed. I think same goes for other common drugs, notably alcohol. Then again, if you mention to the vast majority of the population that you have used LSD, they look at you like you have 3 heads. They'll never look at you the same way, what's with all this stupid judgemental bullshit? I don't drink, and some people definitely add that to their list of labels of personal characteristics they attach to my sentient being. And when I go to parties it's always pushed on me, so I have to bring a drink like coconut water and pretend I'm drinking haha. Well, I don't have to, but I find it's a good strategy so that I don't have to repeatedly explain to people why I don't ever drink alcohol.
There seems to be a dichotomy where potheads only hang around other potheads a lot of the time, and don't really care to be around the blanket term of 'people who don't smoke weed.' Of course this isn't true in general, but it certainly happens with heavy users sometimes. I was once this way, when I was deep into weed I thought people who didn't smoke weed were living on a lower plane of existence or some nonsense like that. Since I've quit, I've progressed spiritually at a much faster rate though. It's such a variable drug in its effects that there really can't be any sort of generalizations at all, and in my opinion this goes for any drug (and beyond drugs, generalizations are lame unless we're talking about general relativity or something). Although I'm a person heavily oriented to science and math, I think a lot of drug studies are lame as fuck. Weed causes memory loss? Weed shrinks the brain? Like, wtf. It generates a powerful experience, more powerful than people give it credit for, and the way you are altered by that experience is probably what is most important. I think I dislike weed so much, because I smoked it when I lived at my parents house, and they hated it so much and it always made me so terrified to step foot in my own home because I would get raided. Therefore, I think I developed an anxiety reaction to weed because of that, even after I moved out (another reason it should just be legal). One reason I think this is because I can handle multiple hits of acid just fine (well... my mind is blown of course), and RC's like 2c-e and lots of shrooms... so why not weed too? But every time it literally makes me feel like I'm having a heart attack and it's the worst feeling I've ever got from a drug in all my life.
Weed is said to be mind expanding, but honestly how can one ever judge someone in any way at all based on there decision to use or not to use any type of drug in existence? Maybe sometimes it is mind expanding, and other times it is not. There is always the flip side of the coin. Unless they are like drinking gasoline or something haha... but even still... gasoline doesn't really exist, the individual human being does not exist separated from their surroundings.
But yeah, even if you smoke all day I'd recommend not being a fanatic about it. I mean of course that is one's own choice, and some people like to get crazy about it, but personally I find it a tad lame when people put a plant (or any drug for that matter) on the pedestal.
