Letters to the Editor
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me, i like to smoke now and again; but i'm addicted to fish oil.
I wish there were more people like you in the world, LW. I specifically wish more of my colleagues were like you. Not in the am-I-smoking-too-much way, but in the I-smoke-and-it-works-for-me-in-many-ways-though-I-have-no-interest-in-being-a-stoner way.
The thing about pot is that as paranoid as it makes some people (people who don't smoke much, I guess), it has quite the opposite effect on others. Me, when I smoke, I think more freely, more associatively, I'm all about affinities. I become less concerned with logic and thus become more myself. That effect — the more one's self effect — holds true for a lot of people. Take it from a professor: being one's self and thinking associatively are both really useful to writing, say, a senior thesis.
So if you're more relaxed and creative and yourself for all your smoking, well, finish off your senior year with a nice, long puff. But keep tabs. Be aware of yourself. As Cary suggests, know your options.