Originally Posted by narwhal

I will make no bones about it--when I retire and move to the beach house full time, I am going to quit on the booze and be a cocktail hour pothead instead. My psych professor in college did one of the longest studies ever on costa rican banana pickers that smoked 20-30 joints/day. The results were suprising. Smoking a joint once a day does less damage than breathing smog (to the brain and the lungs). Of course, I will never encourage this behavior in my children, and won't do it in front of them, unless I hit like 80 Y.O.