I consider a few times a day to be moderate. I've cut back a lot over the last couple years, I would not call myself a heavy cannabis smoker nowadays. I don't keep up with heavy smokers anymore.
A few times a day is not moderate. I would wonder if even a few times a week was moderate, but daily, no way. It's like someone smoking a pack of cigarettes a day (which is quite usual but still heavy) to someone who smokes two packs a day. You'd both be heavy users.
I don't know what else to say except that I strongly disagree that once a day is only "moderate". That's solidly into heavy usage by my standards. I think "a few times a day" is well beyond even just "heavy" usage.
Heavy usage to me is when you're rarely without and you're generally some level of high all the time. I used to smoke like that. I know many people who still do. Light to me is no more than once a day. A friend of mine takes at most a few hits in the evening and we call that light smoking. I'm somewhere in between that. It's quite OK to disagree.
Edit: I realized I said nothing about amount. I go through approximately 1/2 to 1 gram daily.
Holy cow man, 1/2-1 g/day is a ton. I've already said that I think daily use is inherently heavy use, but 1/2-1 g/day is quite heavy use. You might be getting an unrealistic perception because you just know a bunch of crazy high users, but there's no reasonable measure by which your usage is only "moderate".
