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To: Billthedrill
You make some good points in #21.

I smoked weed moderately to heavily as a teenager and lightly to moderately through most of my adult life and kind of just got tired of it like you.

I've always been able to achieve pretty much anything I set my mind to but looking back on my life, I think the weed use made me achieve less than I normally would've by this age and it definitely made me apathetic in a lot of areas which caused me to make some very wrong decisions in regards to certain opportunities that I squandered. (It also makes me write run-on sentences. :o)

It's that old 20/20 hindsight kicking in now that I'm in my 40's and won't have some of those opportunities back.

34 posted on 03/13/2006 7:03:46 PM PST by Looking4Truth (We in the U.S. know the rest of the world is nearly useless and we're sick of carrying their asses!)
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To: Looking4Truth

The best antidote to excessive self destructive pot use, which causes the caution, and the moderation, is a burning ambition to achieve one's goals, that one has set for oneself, in which one's ego heavily invested, and which becomes a rather hard wiring and almost consuming matter of self respect. I wish I could put it better, but that is my experience. But man oh man what it fun, in certain contexts. It was grand!


43 posted on 03/13/2006 7:09:25 PM PST by Torie
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To: Looking4Truth; Billthedrill

Back in the 80's there was a superb anti-drug commercial.

A young man 20ish is smoking grass with his friend watching TV in his room. They see an anti-grass commercial.

"I'm tired of all this stuff about how marijuana messes you up. We've been smoking it for 10 years. I never got into other drugs. I didn't go out robbing people. It didn't make me do anything different. Nothing happenned. In fact, I'd say I'm the same as when I smoked my first joint."

Then we hear his mothers furious voice from downstairs.

"DID YOU EVEN LOOK FOR A JOB TODAY !!! ?"

"Uh, no, Ma"

Voiceover.... Marijuana can make nothing happen to you, too.


64 posted on 03/13/2006 7:40:28 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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