I feel for your friends drop from his potential, but the fact remains he did this all the while it was illegal. The legality of the product changed nothing in

I feel for your friends drop from his potential, but the fact remains he did this all the while it was illegal. The legality of the product changed nothing in his outcome. You cannot argue that making the product legal would have changed his outcome in any way at all, for he smoked his way to mininum wage illegally. He could have just as easily chosen bourbon to lose himself in, as thousands and thousands of people do each year. At least smoking himself stupid he was less likely to kill himself or someone else. Any police officer will tell you that drunks are a problem and stoners are not. I can tell many similar stories of friends who lost their way with drugs and alcohol. Bad shit happens in this world, and being successful means not only hard work but avoiding temptations. You've got to do well in all aspects of your life : to me there is little difference between the person who won't but any effort in to study and accepts a minimum wage, and those that put effort into study but waste it all by being a drug addict.