ZRX1200 wrote:Many pot smokers are lazy POS junkies.
I don't care if its legal but I've seen it KILL my uncle at age 52 and ruin the lives of many if my friends. Most pot smokers I've only met prioritize getting high.
Yes many are functional. La de fuggin da.
telle est la vie
sorry about your uncle. shocked too, never heard of anyone else dying from it in my lifetime.
I feel it is not a "yeah yeah many are successful" but..., it is virtually a zero issue problem in society, other than arrests due to legal status.
my experiences and exposures to pot and pot smokers are the polar opposite of yours. your picture reads like a hippie commune from 1968. must be east coast/west coast thing.
in the early years, teen years mostly, the initial attraction is extremely strong toward the great new feeling of being high, such is the way of youth, but as the decades have rolled on virtually 100% of those I know who still smoke spend very little of their lives even concerned about the role of pot, looking at it as just an alternative to a cocktail after the responsibilities of the day are over...just like drinkers who are not alcoholics consume alcohol the right way. I know lots of people that have had successful careers and families and they dabble in pot...and I mean people well into their fifties, have been using just as responsibly as they use alcohol for over 40 years. I know no adults consumed by the search as you seem to. And I probably have two decades on you. I do know equally as many (myself included) who have totally lost interest in it, that's how weak the urge is normally...funny though that the last few times I have indulged was because I was drinking when it was offered! There's Wheel's real gateway drug, alcohol!
Similar to gambling and other less addictive temptations, the real percent of pot users that develop a problem such as you describe is miniscule. A tiny fraction develop addiction compared to drinkers, cigarette smokers, pain killers and all other potential "problem" issues and substances. The largest number I have ever seen printed by impartial studies was 1 in 15. It happens, but hardly ever, and seems to be the safest bet of all the bad crap out there. You seem to have a higher percentage of people in your life with the rare condition, and I am not being condescending, your circle seems way off the typical experience.
Basedon your experience, I can understand why you'd call smokers POS's, I just haven't seen it that way.