I sincerely believe that a thread with this title deserves a little more input that what it's been receiving.
Let me paraphrase the Dubliners, to lyrics I first heard in Malgrat de Mar in Spain (okay...I might have heard them...I was too drunk to be sure): "I spent all my money on space cake and beeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr"
Smoking marijuana is bad for you. Tobacco and marijuana and resin (the dark concentrated residue from the marijuana plant) all contain substances (like tar) that when smoked is bad for your lungs.
BUT!!!!
BUTTTTTTTTTT....
These evil, nasty, vulgar, depraved, malicious, vile and malignant textures do not enter your body...when you eat it!!
So, basically eating marijuana does affect your lungs and body as smoking it would.
You can bake it in a space cake. OR...if you have the patience of a drunk Scot about to board a space craft, you just swallow some resin (hashish) like panadol and get it over and done with.
TAKE NOTE THOUGH!!!! Marijuana has various short term effects on the body:
1. The short term memory gets subdued
2. You eat more (specifically chocolate and fatty foods like chips)
3. You become lathargic (you lose motivation).
The good side though is that it is not addictive and if you stop for 5 days all residue is out your body and everything returns to normal (except your weight)!!!
Beer...well....beer is bad for you.
It gets you drunk, it gives you bad breath and it makes you fat.
HOWEVER....there's nothing as relaxing as drinking a pint of lager on a terras in Germany on a warm summer's day.
I'll just finish the obligatory public warning: JUST SAY NO.