Oh I know people who smoke weed. I am not particularly naive.
I also would WAY rather have someone smoke week daily than take meth daily. I understand that there are some drugs that are worse than others. A person’s previous mental status (which WILL degrade to some degree no matter what they decide to get high on), their physical health, and their overall personality will affect how much damage would be done over how long.
I wouldn’t let my pot smoking friends babysit my kids when getting high. If they got high yesterday, I would. As long as I trusted them not to get high while one the job.
On the other hand, I’d let my Grandma babysit even if she has a glass of wine with dinner.
And I wouldn’t let a junkie babysit at all, ever.
Matter of degree.
In 2010 I went to Country Thunder and camped out for the 4 day weekend, our next door neighbors were a group of about a dozen of Flagstaff’s finest with their wives and girlfriends, blowing off steam for the weekend... I never have seen another group of that size put away that much alcohol, Besides various hard liquor, they had brought 30, 30 packs and had to go get more before the end of the weekend, they were sharing it liberally, with the women that wanted to show off their goods, but anyway, one night sitting around the campfire with half a dozen cops, I asked them what they thought about Marijuana vs Alcohol... the common feeling was stupidest law ever and wished they did not have to enforce it, with the captain saying he would much rather send his guys to go break up a teenage pot party of 20 or 30 kids than to have to go break up a teenage kegger of the same size.