mostly it does relieve stress, until your addicted and get no buzz, and then you have to have it, even if your not stress, Tobacco kills more people than all illegal drugs and alcohol deaths every year, alcohol poisoning(OD on alcohol) is, but marijuana which has not been shown to directly cause cancer ever, although people lie and say it makes you insane(they have been since the 30's), they say its a gateway drug when in most people experimented with alcohol(and usually tobacco) before marijuana and then went on to harder drugs. The facts really don't lie, it's just people are too ignorant and choose to believe everything the media says, I guess potheads and supporters are too lazy to fight for legality, but I really don't care, if it is ever legalized. Who really cares?