I think its cruel to get your pets high or drunk. whether or not you think it hurts them they dont choose to do it. now if dogs somehow grew fingers in which they could hold a joint and puff it themselves then i see no harm in that. of course animals get high in the wild because they are wild. they eat what they find. but these are domesticated pets and personally i think its animal cruelty. but to each their own i suppose.
at least i would say that marijuana is less harmful than allowing them to drink beer. someone said that and that is cruel because it does harm your pet just the same way it would harm a human. see.... we have livers. so do they. and although are livers are strong enough to take many years of alcohol abuse...animals livers are not as strong and cannot digest it like a human can.
now i would stipulate that if you're just smoking weed in the same room as your pet and the smoke is in their face thats not really bad but if you're talking like locking them in a box or a cage and filling it with smoke or something like that then yes i would think thats pretty cruel. (and i only say that because i once knew a guy who did that to his cat and it was really mean.)
I really dont think anyone is talking animal cruelty here. I think almost everyone who has told a story here mentions that the dog, cat, racoon, or whatever comes looking for a shotgun hit in the face. I tried kicking my cat out but she annoys the hell out of me till I give her a hit or two. My dog used to drink beer ( before my ex-girlfriend ran over him, RIP). I let the animal decide what it wants. The dog would knock over our beer and lap it up. So finally I just gave up and got tired of him knocking over bottles of beer and just put some in a dish for him. Not too much but that is what he wanted. Who am I to say the dog cant have a drink? Or my cat cant have a puff? It is obviously their choice. I am not forcing it on them, and actually I am glad when my cat doesn't want to puff because she is an annoying pain in the ass when I am just trying to chill and blaze.
I agree though, locking an animal in a box or something, where they cant leave now that is cruel.
I also don't think people should have caged birds. I think that is a little sick. That is like cutting off someones legs and putting them in a jail cell. But to each his own, I would never own one. Maybe those birds that dude mentioned want to get high because they are so depressed about being a caged bird, lol.