Marijuana changed my ideas as well...Pot is a very insidious drug, in that, It's the one drug that's perceived as harmless enough to not scare us and yet it seems to be such a general purpose "antidote" to people with various issues. All of the cliche things that people said about pot to me turned out to be true in my life. It screwed up my education and It (being an addict) did lead to harder drugs. even my young adult life and my first marriage were affected because of another lesser known side effect of pot, I think that I was emotionally stunted by it, you just become used to it as a crutch and it happens one carefree day at a time! One day, if you're as slow as I am,(or was) you'll look up and begin to understand what has been stolen from you by drugs. which in my case led to a major depression that took years to come out of. so it got worse before it got better...don't go down this road, at all, get free of anything that does not bless you and your life!