Difficult. Very difficult.
Honestly I don't see any moral reason against using grass or any drug to feel more confident, yet deep down I don't believe in it being the way to true happiness either.
If someone has trouble walking, you'd hand him an aid, if the walking issue couldn't be helped otherwise. So if there wasn't any other way to happiness but through the use of drugs, then I'd say go for it. Like I said I have no moral issues about this sort of thing.
On the contrary hearing what you say about the use of dope has me yearn to try it out myself. Who wouldn't think it heavenly to be thus carefree, to feel thus safe and connected with others? One smoke and there you have the shortcut to heaven. It is tempting.
So now I'm left trying to explain to myself why it's not the way to happiness apart from physical side effects, cause those don't count to me either. Life itself always has negative physical side effects, they might as well be for the sake of happiness. and then you've got to take medication for whatever issues, why not dope for overcoming isolation? You take pills for travelling sickness as well, why not take grass to get to other people?
But I guess the main hang-up of using drugs to get through life easier really is that it's a convenient shortcut solution that requires no personal effort, no labour for the love of life. You don't try to live like a child growing, you don't fall, cry and get up again, you don't take the trouble trying time and again and give yourself the chance to grow and make it on your own two legs.
And I do believe that connecting to others, being yourself and feeling good about yourself is something usually anyone can acchieve without the use of mind-altering drugs, and if that's so, magic shoes to get you there by clicking them robs you of the path you need to go to grow, to evolve as a person.
Drugs if not used in only the most dire circumstances keep you small, prevent you from reaching the spiritual development you could acquire and the happiness that comes with real growth.
So with any other option left I guess I'd vote for not using grass to feel good about yourself and a means to open up, but for simply doing it step by step all the way.
