I know a few old potheads from high school.
Sad, sad waste of life really. It’s a slowly progressing life of laziness. They reach their peak of activity around age 20. It’s all downhill from there. Oh they may start out with a good job, but each time they get laid off, the next job isn’t as good, then the next one after that... on and on till they are night watchmen somewhere.
Sad, sad waste of life really. It’s a slowly progressing life of laziness. They reach their peak of activity around age 20. It’s all downhill from there. Oh they may start out with a good job, but each time they get laid off, the next job isn’t as good, then the next one after that... on and on till they are night watchmen somewhere.
You've just described someone I know. He smells of patchouli or something like that.
Did I mention he's a vegan?
An acquaintance observed something about vegans: almost all of them she'd met were involved in drugs of some sort. Her theory was that they felt a lack of certain essential chemicals that might have been supplied by animal protein, and they made up the difference with THC or harder substances. Most of the vegans I've run into chose THC or nicotine, at the very least.
Right, like that Michael Phelps! What a lazy, no good loser!
So, the fact that pot was illegal then and now - doesn't seem to have done anything to stop your friends from wasting their lives. Where does making pot illegal make sense from a standpoint of keeping people from getting it?
There will always be weak, lazy, addictive people - but I know quite a few pot smokers that work hard, many of them own their own businesses & are there - working their tails off - 6 & 7 days a week. It's sad for the people you know personally that they have ended up the way they did - but I suspect you probably know a lot more people that smoke pot than you realize. If it isn't a problem for someone (which it isn't for many, many people) - then you are not likely going to even realize that they are pot smokers.
You are being quite broad in your generalizations.
I know a few old potheads from high school.***
You keep talking about potheads as if anyone who has ever used pot or still uses it is a pothead just like anyone who ever has drunk beer or drinks it is a drunk. This has nothing to do with legalization of said drug, it’s just a lame strawman put there to divert attention away from the real issue which is state rights. It’s a pretty weak argument.
I will agree with you that it has many negative effects if abused, just like any other drug. But it has some valid medical uses, which, used in the right context can be a great benefit. It’s just like anything else in life that has the potential to be abused.