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I agree with you completely. When I was young I smoked a lot of weed but was afraid of LSD and mushrooms. Now that I'm nearing 60 I feel that I definitely miss

• pasbesoin 10y ago
  Except for one minor contact high at a party, I never even experienced weed. I have a friend who had strikingly similar experiences as a child. She quit school for a while and got high daily -- mostly weed, as I understand it. About the age of 21 or 22, she got herself back into school and now has a very successful professional career. Drugs may indeed destroy some people. But, the messaging is far too simple -- and simplistic. And, those people often are not helped. They are simply castigated and ostracized. I don't mean, at all, to make light of such circumstances. And, I have currently been helping someone -- help to the tune of dozens of hours per week and hundreds of miles driven, and hundreds of dollars -- who came darned close to being lost, herself. I'd still trade my life for hers. She's lived hers -- mistakes and all.