Swamp Thing:
"Btw, setting a few things straight.
Smoking weed will cause memory loss, lowering your heart rate, red eyes and not much else. The only really big "inconvenient" is the memory loss, because every other thing is quite trivial and non-important."

Have you even bothered to check on the medical results posted? Your version of downsides for marijuana is speculative and at best it can be explained as your personal experience. You have disregarded everything that has been mentioned by either Aether or me on the subject, but most importantly by various medical researchers.
You also claimed: "the majority will use it to climb the drug ladder to heavier stuff, like cocaine, speed, or even crack cocaine and heroine"
That statement has no validity whatsoever. It is not backed up by any study, and my personal experience tells me otherwise, but hey, if your PERSONAL experience is that most users of pot use it to climb to higher drugs... dont be so rotund when 'setting things straight'
@Grisu:

You can smoke joints without tobacco. In fact, it is the best way to do it, cleaner and more potent. Other than that, you can smoke weed by itself on various forms (Bong, pipe, can, water bong........