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Living in Washington state, I can tell you that I run into habitual pot smokers on a daily basis. Understanding that marijuana might have some derivative health uses, I want to issue a challenge: Find me one successful professional individual, that is active in their community, that uses pot on a daily basis.

I have yet to find adult habitual marijuana user that I would look up to as a role model/mentor.

Just sayin’

I know some who use *small* amounts on what I suspect are a pretty regular basis (one uses it as a sleep aid) and keep their lives together in all aspects. I have had bad reactions to it (I suspect an allergy), so I don't like it that much, but I have used it in a crunch for migraines, and it worked better than almost everything else.

I think the people who hold it together who aren't giant stoners still keep it somewhat in the closet, since they do have professional lives they want to maintain and aren't sure how it will go over.

Living in Washington state, I can tell you that I run into habitual pot smokers on a daily basis. Understanding that marijuana might have some derivative health uses, I want to issue a challenge: Find me one successful professional individual, that is active in their community, that uses pot on a daily basis.

Good God, this is trivial. First off, if you express your interaction with pot users as "I run into them" then than tells me you're talking about strangers on the street. Well, how do you know a stranger on the street is a pot user? Probably because he is some dumbass derelict who smokes pot between meth hits and screams that fact to the world while demanding pocket change so he can buy his next beer.

Almost by definition, responsible pot users are NOT visible to people on the street. I know a few - professionals who like pot the way others like fine scotch. If you ran into a person on the street who was an obvious drinker, what would that tell you? It would have to be someone whose drinking was at ridiculously irresponsible levels, otherwise how would you know? A responsible drinker drinks when appropriate and in private, same as a responsible pot smoker.

This sort of basic logic should be obvious, but I'm convinced that a certain amount of propaganda has been distributed to paint pot as worse than cocaine and heroin put together. Quite frankly , I consider pot more harmless than alcohol (and cheaper). Hmmm.

" Find me one successful professional individual, that is active in their community, that uses pot on a daily basis."

I know several in the tech business, that while probably not daily users probably use twice a week or more.

They are all very successful and some are richly so.

"Find me one successful professional individual, that is active in their community, that uses pot on a daily basis."

Find me one successful professional individual, that is active in their community, that uses pot on a daily basis.

Yeah, I'm not going to violate anyone's privacy for you, but I'm known quite a few highly successful, reliable, responsible folks who were extreme users, some of whom were definitely doing it for self-medication purposes, eg incapacitating Vietnam-era PSTD. However I'm sure we've also met plenty of folks who indulge in recreational use just because, just like 3-martini lunches used to be the thing, or doing a couple of lines to perk up the mid-afternoon used to be popular in the 80s...Executives who do this truly annoy me.

“I want to issue a challenge: Find me one successful professional individual, that is active in their community, that uses pot on a daily basis.”

Read past Sarah, please.

http://reason.com/archives/2014/06/04/10-really-successful-potheads/singlepage

Oprah, several actors, rappers and musicians can be added to the list. I know of several who smoke every day, live happy & have a few million in the bank for their efforts.

There are many more if you want to do a Google search you can educate yourself. Peace :)