Marijuana Use: Dating Deal Breaker?

I Have personaly blown out both of my knees, one while skiing and the other at work, ive done the right thing take lots of leagal drugs anti-inflamatories steroid injections to the knee joint and pain killers that can knock you out and what seemed to me to be the better option physio and a toke.
The later provided results mutch sooner and did not affect my abilety to work anywhere near as mutch.
I don't drink or use drugs at all at this point in time,
I personaly think marijuana could be uses with great sucsess for medicinal purposes and it dosen't have the high risk of dependance like opiate based pain killers.

As an "occasional toker" I immediately close with anyone who is intolerant of recreational use of illegal drugs. I do wish EHarm would address the issue more directly and save me some steps.

My ex husband was a regular user of marijuana. He had back injuries, and I felt bad for that so I looked the other way. I would consider myself for legalization, but it's only going to be truly legal when the federal government and states can agree. As for dating someone who uses it? Absolutely not. It's a turn off for me. It's not okay to break the law- I now work in a field where I am required by my state to report any illegal activity I happen to see. I can't stand the way it smells, and smoking anything is a general turn off for me. People who use marijuana are similar to people who drink too much or have some other bad habit- they are self-medicating and covering up a larger issue. My ex husband had back problems, but he also had anger problems and depression, and I think he was using his back problems as an excuse to use for other reasons. I want to be with someone who lives a healthy life, and doesn't feel the need to support violence on our borders by self-medicating.

Depends on the use. If it is a recreational thing, or a social thing I have no issue. If it is an addiction or a "need" then it would be a deal breaker.

I have no issue at all with Pot, though I don't smoke it.....I vaporize. :D

deal breaker, end of story.

nepacutie: Deal breaker! I would never consider dating anyone who did any illegal drugs. And I know all the pot heads out there don't consider pot to be like other drugs...but it's still illegal.

Not my thing, but I don't really care if it's an occasional thing with someone else - every day and/or every single weekend I would not be comfortable with though. Too much of a vice then, edging into addictive behaviour instead. I don't mind a drink or two myself once in a while - but same rules as above. Too much, too often of anything in the areas of alcohol or drugs can be a problem.

I've been an occaisonal pot smoker for years. I've dated women for periods that lasted over a year and were none the wiser to the fact that I indulged on an infrequent basis which would lead me to believe that it is not problematic, certainly in my own case.

I have a moderate personality in terms of various vices. I drink very moderately and cannot remember the last time I was impaired or drank enough that I would feel uncomfortable driving. In terms of the legality, in smaller amounts, and provided one is not cultivating, pot smoking is nearly decriminalized, so worry about the legal implications is overstating the case.

In short, pot, like anything else, can be abused if not used responsibly. It is quite likely that you work and associate with many people who smoke pot, and you are not aware of it, especially if you never have smoked pot yourself.

So, to answer the question, I would not have any problem with dating a woman who smoked marijuana responsibly, meaning that she kept it on the DL and was a productive person. I have quit dating women because they were lushes or could not handle alcohol on the occaisons when they did drink, and I quit dating a woman when I realized that she was a pothead, in the snese that most would recognize as being so. I would have to judge things on an individual basis.