Well at first I wasn't going to bring up this story, but I might as well anyhow. My brother smokes pot, and he smokes very heavily, he is 18 years old. He thought it was all cool to get high all the time. He dropped out of school, he couldn't get a job, and basically his life was going down the drain, the only thing going for him was the little high he got from pot. Then one day he came home, and was saying weird things, accusing my family of trying to kill him. I thought maybe he was tripping off some drug he had never tried before. Then it happened again the next day, except this time he was in tears because he really believed his own family was trying to kill him. We took him to the hospital and got him drug tested and the only drug traceable was pot. We took him home and he was still having hallucinations and was acting paranoid. Finally we got him into a mental and behavioral hospital, and they diagnosed him with schizophrenia. His episode was triggered by smoking pot. Now he is on all kinds of medicines and he is not suppose to smoke pot anymore, but he still does. I don't know when and if he will stop, but I hope he does. Does anyone care to ramble on about how pot does not affect the brain. I will proove you wrong, it does in fact kill brain cells. If you are a true smoker you would know that, I have seen numerous posters that say something to the words of weed kills only the weak brain cells. All drugs affect the brain, from pain killers to hallucinagens.