Bruce Lee ate hash to treat swelling in his brain.
Salvador Dali recommended chewing hashish in his book on painting.
The oldest known stash of weed comes from a 2,700 year old burial tomb in China! Guy loved trees so much he had nearly two pounds of the stuff to bring with him on his final journey. In case you might be thinking to yourself 'hey! hemp was used for all kinds of things maybe he wasn't smokin'." Testing showed that this particular type of trees contained substantial quantities of THC.
Carl Sagan: “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
The cannabis plant is bred for use in phytoremediation. it absorbs heavy metals and other contaminates from the ground more effectively than most plants to clean contaminated soil.
If you get headaches from smoking with a butane lighter, try smoking with hemp wick as an alternative.
If you're sensitive to irritants in your lungs, buy a mouthpiece filter or place a piece of gauze over the end of your bong or hookah to capture part of the tar from smoking.
For avoiding puking after a bong hit, take several short controlled coughs until you can catch a breath, and then take a powerful cough to relieve tension. Try not to cough heavily in succession.