Yes..and that herb contains THC. A drug. Cocaine is from the coca plant. Opium is from poppy plants. Magic Mushrooms are natural. Salvia is also from a plant. Shessh, you use "drug" like it's a forbidden word.
Yeah... I agree. It's just that when I think of drug, I think of cocaine, heroin, acid, ecstasy... Weed is nothing like that.
The word 'drug' has a very negative connotation in today's society. I believe that it's better to break down drug use into two categories 'drug-control' and 'drug-abuse.' To control your drug intake, you plan and use only what is required to get the desired effect. During your experience you maintain control over your body (within reason) and simply allow your mind to be free. Drug abuse however is an obsessive use of a certain drug or using drugs in a situation that could bring about harm to yourself or others. As such, I endorse drug use so far as you do not use drugs in a way or amount that will get you addicted or otherwise harm yourself or others. For my personal record, I've been known to smoke some MJ and I've done peyote once.
To some people, sex is a drug... why isn't sex illegal? People can abuse it. Some things just make no damn sense.
Alcohol is the only drug that'll get me reliably social. I pretty much stick with that. Weed is pretty complicated. It's really awesome for the first couple months, and then people slowly start to shy away from people that don't smoke. All the while denouncing cliqueness, of course. Coke is ridiculously exciting the first time you use it. And then goes downhill from there. Pretty ideal if you're attracted to manic depressive states. Mushrooms/Acid are pretty much essential to deliver large pallets of truth. But they should be used sparingly. Take too much and little sense is made of anything. Too often and you're brain stops working very quickly. Ecstasy sometimes lives up to its name. Often its really crappy. Frequent use leaves you stupid. DXM and Ketamine are just really weird. I don't even know if you can call them fun. Just really weird. And that's pretty much all I've tried.
Only if you do it often, but anything can be like that if you don't take little breaks to reflect, in between.
Well, many people feel depressed after doing it (just once), because your sterotonin levels are fucked up afterward. Though some people are fine.