Pot has ruined my son's life. He smoked throughout his high school years and didn't bother going to classes because he felt so much better getting high. He never graduated. I confess that I never quite got it because I used to smoke when I was in my 20's and when I stopped smoking, I simply stopped. However, his counselors say quite clearly, "It's not your mother's marijuana," meaning the stuff is more powerful than it used to be when I was smoking it. They say that it's often laced with other drugs and clearly packs a more powerful punch than the marijuana of old. In fact, in one of his former rehab programs, which was an adolescent program, the kids were there because of pot.