If you have good people skills it isn't hard to find a good dealer. It is harder when you are in high school though. Once you're in your 20s and older you can get some connections to some really good dealers with brand-name weed .... Purple Haze, Northern Lights, stuff like that.

If you are in high school, the weed you smoke won't be that great.

An ounce of crap is $200 or less. An ounce of great stuff is $450 or more.

An eighth-ounce is what people usually buy. It's called an eighth. You pay between $20 (crap) and $60+ (great stuff) per eighth.

The standard eighth price is $40-50.

There is a culture where one person usually buys an ounce of weed, keeps an eighth or a quarter for himself, and sells the rest to people he knows. He will usually break even; therefore, he is smoking for free.

If you are smoking with friends every day, and eighth can last you a week or so. If you're smoking by yourself, it can last a few weeks, or more if you just like taking one puff when you smoke.

Weed is usually better and more expensive in New Jersey and New York.

Marijuana can cause depersonalization and derealization disorders, activate dormant schizophrenia, cause a panic attack, and can cause general paranoia and anxiety.

Sometimes these symptoms go away, and sometimes they don't.

It doesn't kill brain cells.

It doesn't cause cancer except in lab rats.

It contains carcinogens that don't affect humans.

It can make you lazy.

It can temporarily mess with your memory.

People can function normally while stoned. It is common.

Some people can't function while stoned.

It is legal for medicinal purposes in California and Oregon.

You can get a medical license to grow it in Oregon if you are sick enough.

It can be tough on the respiratory system.

Just about every radio song from 1965-1979 was written by someone who was stoned.

To get high you need one or two hits/puffs, which can be less than a quarter of a gram... most people smoke more than that though.

An ounce is 28 grams. An eighth is 3.5 grams. A quarter is 7 grams. Strangely, in some parts of the U.S. a dime is 1.7 grams.

It can be bought by the gram in cities and urban areas, or if the weed is really high quality. Crap weed usually isn't sold by the gram.

Good weed is called, in general: kind bud, KB, sinsemilla (it has no seeds), headies (great weed), nuggets/nugs (full flowers, not broken apart .... the the flowers are the part of the plant that is smoked), buds/bud (same as flowers), beasters (Canadian regular weed that high schoolers smoke), schwag (crappy Mexican brick weed that is grown in massive quantities and is sometimes brownish or greyish), mids (weed with seeds and stems ... which is bad), regs (regular weed... depends on where you're from) ...............................

You can't overdose.

You can't die.

You can get really high if you take lots of hits.

It can ruin people's lives if they don't use it wisely, just like alcohol or prescription pills or anything.

It is used by millions of people all over the world, but there is a stigma attached to it, so most people keep the fact that they smoke weed to themselves and their close friends.

Presidents, Senators, Congressman, teachers, professors, doctors, lawyers, students, moms, dads, and just about everybody else uses weed. Not all of them, but a lot of them.

It is very easy to obtain, no matter who you are.

You can cook it into butter and use the butter in food to get high.

It can have positive health effects.

Watch the documentary "In Pot We Trust." It isn't a perfect movie, and I don't agree with everything in it, but it makes some good points.

Weed was made illegal for lobbying/political and racist reasons in the late 30s. Jazz musicians would smoke it. Government propaganda made everyone think it would make you insane.

Marijuana is from the hemp plant, which is an industrial weed, which has many uses. Lobbyists in the 30s fought to illegalize weed so their companies didn't have to compete with hemp companies. So, it was given a bad name, slandered, lobbied against, and eventually illegalized.

In public schools, kids learn nothing about what marijuana really is.

Wow, I could keep typing about this forever.