I do have experience in how it changes people.
Years ago I worked nights and I would watch my nephew.
He smiled the biggest smiles and we had a great time together. He was fun to be with and we were best friends.
When he became a teen, he started smoking pot and continued to do so in college.
He's not that happy little boy anymore.
He became distant, uncaring, and cynical.
Whereas we used to have great fun talking, our 'conversations' amount to, 'I dunno. I don't care'.
Mind you he's doing well for himself. Steady job, a girlfriend but he's different.
Yes, there are other factors to consider (friends who smoked pot, high school and college indoctrination) but I will always believe it was pot that turned one of the happiest little boys in the world to a disillusioned cynical young man.
Can anyone point to one person who marijuana helped to make a better person?
That might not be just weed....some folks don’t grow into happy adults from the beav years
I loved being stoned 30-47 years ago and was very happy
Some good weed ...a happy naked girl who loved me reciprocally ....music....by the lake....maybe some 714s
No worries yet really beyond summer jobs and term papers
MN life was damn good
And I was very happy
Still am and I deal with reams of pressure at a high level
I think chronic couch lock smokers get lazy and unambiguous and zoned out yes....no question
I’ve been around folks whose daily life is stoned....some can do it but not all...
My life got too busy for it....
But I really detest booze....I’ve had to deal with it up close and a daily drunk is far worse than a stoner.....
But drinkers disagree....I know someone well for 35 years who drinks not like crazy every night but he likes to drink heavy weekly have some grade A creativity powder if he runs across it.....flakey translucent bubble gum smelling old school blow.....which I detest as much as I do drunks
Yes there are folks who still binge it on occasion ...
He’ll buy a ball or a see if it’s old school quality and run through half of it and then get disgusted with himself and his adorable wife is giving him serious stink eyed consternation and he’ll go flush the rest...about a grands worth
It’s like a ritual...a 36 hour madness followed by guit and a levaquin worthy sinus infection
We were having biz lunch last week and I told him weed would be legal within five years in all but the most culture conservative states
And I was ok with it
He bristled and said you romanticize weed....remember all the heads in Denver and Portland we knew and how screwed up they are
I had to concede that but it just shows how if folks like a drug they excuse as he does booze....he doesn’t excuse cocaine..lol....that’s a tall order....he’s just always had a thing for it..35 years of intermittent use
I don’t use drugs beyond occasional Percocet and cortisone shots and phenergan rarely for sleep
People are funny......I hate booze.....but I like the taste....especially hops or a barn yard Bordeaux
When I was in my early 20’s, I had some friends who started using pot.
They went from bright girls working their way through college, to unemployed college drop outs who were just interested in when they were going to get their next drink, joint, and guy.