I have a friend who has been smoking marijuana and has been an occasional user of other drugs since she was 18. She admits that it has made her “dumber”, but she doesn’t care. Now, the drugs have made a mess of her family and caused her husband to divorce her.
She started smoking marijuana more heavily after suffering a back injury a couple of years ago, and started growing her own. She couldn’t resist sharing her stash, though. She shared with a young college student who had been a friend of her son’s and after leaving her house, the young man struck and killed a guy on a bicycle. He ended up spending three and half years in prison upon graduating from college.
Her son is a heroin addict. He blames his addiction on her because she always made drugs sound so cool. She was one of those mothers who used to claim that they would rather see their kids high on marijuana than drunk on beer. Of course she allowed her son and his friends to drink beer in her home when they were teen agers. She never objected to a little marijuana use, either.
Her husband travelled for work and said that every time he came home she was worse, more irresponsible. He finally had enough and filed for divorce. He should have done something a long time ago. My friend is 62 years old and still a doper.
I don't know your friend, but you've shared enough to amateurishly analyze the situation.
She admits she's dumber and continues to dumb down ... there's obviously a benefit to being dumb that supercedes losing everything that resembles normalcy up to and including real, live human beings that at one time loved her.
Real. live human beings that trusted her, whom she cast aside (de facto)
Real, live human beings that make one's life a joy.
What could that desireable benefit be?
I'm not sure I have an answer, because I realized I couldn't remember anything, and as some things in my life became more and more important, and try as I might I couldn't retain the data to argue or support my thoughts, I became scared and stopped.
To this day, I struggle to memorize the scripture that I dearly love and desire to have at the forefront of my thought processes.
I can't remember quick enough the data that has been so intelligently and profusely presented here in FR since Clinton to argue and/or refute (intelligently) the lies and oblique efforts to destroy America.