[FairOpinion]

I am glad you were able to stop, and realized how much better you feel without it. Thanks for sharing your story.

I don't know the ramifications of occasional use, as long as it is truly occasional. The problem with occasional use, as I understand it, is it that it is very hard to keep it occasional and many occasional smokers of pot end up using it regularly, and it leads to other, stronger drugs and so on.

[MrLeRoy]

it leads to other, stronger drugs

Recent studies by the RAND Corporation, and by economist Steven Pudney of the University of Leicester, have deflated the "gateway theory."