Get a grip, dude...I know what addiction is like. I was a tobacco addict for 19 yrs! Going w/o nicotine had terrible effects on me b4 I finished the long process of kicking the habit--while going w/o weed doesn't bother me. You are comparing apples to oranges. Pray all you want to...if that's how you choose to waste your time, then so be it.
"Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality." (The Objectivist Feb 1966)
"Everyone has the right to make his own decision/s, but none has the right to force his decision on others."
('The Virtue of Selfishness', Chapter 12)
"The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government ... it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection against the government."
"A rational man is guided by his thinking – by a process of Reason – not by his feelings and desires."
"If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."
"To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: Rationality."
"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."
"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."