Music has been all downhill since Giovani Palestrina strolled into the Vatican...
Listen to and learn Gregorian Chant.
As for smoking "pot" I had a huge argument with an SSPX priest one time who insisted smoking one joint was a mortal sin, and that is what they tell the students at St Marys. Now, a grave act of disobedience would be a mortal sin. If your parents don't want you even smoking cigs then by all means...
But for a joint to be a mortal sin it would either have to be
A) so strong as to make you lose your reason... ie getting drunk or stoned or whatever.
B) an occasion of sin... you just can't smoke one must go through ten...
The average joint available in my day fulfilled neither of these conditions...
Finally, I am by no means advocating smoking joints.
Heck, I don't even drink coffee
(Some of those drinks at McDonalds probably have more punch than a joint did in my day. :jumping2:)