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Is smoking marijuana "IMMORAL"?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I don't think it could be considered immoral.
And I don't think we can judge morality on POTENTIAL to do harm... you could potentially do someone harm by driving while NOT on marijuana. (The driving example works well, so I'm going to run with it.) And I don't think any actual accident could ever be called "immoral." Morality is about INTENT more than it is about actions. Unless your intent is to harm others, morally you're in the clear.
If you harm someone while on marijuana, you will feel GUILTY, you might even think about how your choices lead to someone being harmed, but that does not make your choices "immoral." They might be BAD choices, but that's a different thing entirely. Likewise, it's not "immoral" to speed or talk on your cell phone while driving . These might be BAD choices, but they wouldn't be immoral.
As for the harm you do to yourself, our concepts of "moral" and "immoral" actions only really focus on the harm we do others. So have at it, harm yourself. (We won't go into the debate about how harmful marijuana actually is, and assume that the question of it's morality focuses on it being harmful.) Again, morality is about intent, and unless your intent is to harm, your actions cannot be immoral.