Yes, it does cause poverty, the same as Alcohol or any drug.
Sadness and despair. It certainly does.
Pot does not cause any poverty anymore than alcohol does.
You might say abuse might bring poverty.
Pot does not cause sadness, abuse of any substance might but in a of itself it does not.
Thousands of people drink and or use pot who are successful happy people.
The guy in the gutter is not the norm.
The first big lie about pot is addiction.
Back in the late 60’s and early 70’s, most of my friends smoked it, but I didnt’. I thought it would make me stupid, cause birth defects, etc. Well, being politically minded and loving to prove the other side wrong, I decided that the subject of a report I was doing in my senior year would be “The Evils of Marijuana”. This was early 1972.
Anyway, the results of my research at the time is that everything “negative” was either speculation or BS. It’s not that it isn’t bad for you, but that everything we were being told back then was just like all the crap we’re being told about Global Warming today.
And December of ‘72 I took my first toke. In ‘77 I stopped. It just ran it’s course. I suppose my becoming a Christian in 1981 is why I’ve NEVER touched it since.
But it is not the gateway drug everyone claims it is, and time has shown me that a LOT of people use it “socially” and actually function VERY well in society. My main problem with it is that it’s like alcohol but the ONLY reason to use it is to get “drunk”. You don’t smoke pot the way a person would have a single glass of single malt. The whole point is to get stoned. (obviously I’m not including medicinal use here.)