I'll field that. I'm Carrie's husband. I actually manage a recreational cannabis dispensary in Colorado.

Weed can definitely make you *lazy" and worthless, and all those crappy things that everyone thinks. But no matter who the user is and why they're doing it, they're getting the medicinal benefits.

I help people every day use cannabis products to replace their narcotic, addictive pain pillls. Recovering alcoholics, veterans with PTSD. There are even children who don't have to suffer from seizures anymore.

I think that the most damage it can do is when it becomes an unnecessarily high expense. For example, I regret all the money that I spent on weed when I could have been buying BTC for pennies. But hey, health insurance costs a bit too.

I'm sure cannabis has made me unsuccessful by other some other people's standards, but I'm thankful for it every day. I am what I am.

I also think that kids shouldn't really use it at all, unless they have a medical need. Just from experience, it seems like it can affect the way they grow and learn. I would suggest anyone waiting until about 20.

That's my two-cents. :)