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I don't understand this. Me and everyone I know that smoke pot regularly don't sit around doing nothing. The people I know who do nothing don't smoke pot. They

I don't understand this. Me and everyone I know that smoke pot regularly don't sit around doing nothing. The people I know who do nothing don't smoke pot. They finish their days and sit around in front of the TV drinking booze until they passout. Or wake up when they don't work and start drinking. The people I know who regularly smoke pot are motivated, usually have good jobs or run successful businesses, have hobbies and good social lives that don't revolve around smoking pot. Don't get me wrong I've certainly met the 'lazy unmotivated stoner' types. But at least in my experience, those tend to be more rare than the 'smokes weed and does pretty well at life' people. I smoke a lot of weed regularly and have no problem maintaining a job I work six days a week, several productive hobbies, a long term relationship, and friendships even with people that don't smoke weed or who are even opposed to it. Honestly, if you met me and you don't smoke weed there's a good chance you'd never know. I don't talk about it with people that aren't interested, I don't sit around smoking in public, I don't go around wearing or buying weed leaf clothes and paraphernalia and things like that. I've surprised more than one person when they find out I smoke weed after knowing me for a long time.

magic_beans 8y ago
But do you smoke very day? Do you look forward to pot more than anything else? If not, then good for you! Like alcohol, some people take weed to extremes, and others are able to drink one glass every now and again without going overboard.
- grawprog 8y ago
  I do smoke weed every day. I don't necessarily wake up in the morning and look forward to only that. Ya if I finish work after a hard stressful day sometimes I do look forward to it. But, I look forward to getting home, showering and eating dinner too. If I'm busy doing things where I can't I don't really mind and I don't really think about it or anything. I would say my usage would qualify as habitual but in the end if I can't get some weed or smoke or whatever in a day or for a bit it's all good. Ya I know I rely on it for stress relief, helping with sleep and I honestly just find it enjoyable. I mean I also rely on coffee to wake me up in the morning, food and water to survive and generally many other things that either make my life better or act as a crutch. But in the end, compared to other crutches people rely on, the impact of weed in my life is fairly minimal. I know a guy last year who was addicted to coke who's mom ended up dying in the night because instead of taking her to the hospital when she asked him he wanted to get high and jerk off. I've got a 25 year old cousin with pancreatitis because of his alcohol problem. My brother's just finished rehab for his drinking. I have a friend who came close to death last year.because.of her coke and crack addiction and basically fucked her life. She lost her job, her home for a while, didn't see her kid for months and it basically took ending up in the hospital for close to the tenth time last year, near death with the threat of permanently losing custody of her kid to finally quit after years. I've got another friend who was recently prescribed seroquil and a couple anti-depressants for his anxiety over maybe one day having thoughts about walking into traffic. Last time I seen him he was bragging about the thousands of dollars he was making by double or triple depositing his disability cheques into multiple banks, both his short and long term memory seemed totally messed up he couldn't keep the flow of a conversation, had no idea what had happened only 10-15 minutes previous and he stayed at my house and spent all night awake staring at a wall hallucinating that he'd been watching tron 2 all night. When I got up the TV was off, the internet had been unplugged sometime hours before and he didn't have the TV remote. He had a job interview that day he did not make it to. I dunno i've seen a lot of people abuse substances or even just need something to get by. In the course of my life, pot is pretty much the most harmless thing i've seen. I've watched people going crazy over lack of coffee, cigarettes and booze plenty. Never once seen someone doing that over weed.
  - drooogs 8y ago
    i don't mean to condescend (i smoke weed often myself), but please be careful when you compare your habit to others'. if you know a lot of unhealthy people, it can be hard to recognize your own issues.
    - grawprog 8y ago
      It's cool. But i'm well aware of my own issues and problems in life and I assure you they don't come from smoking weed.
    - anon08142018 8y ago
      I don't mean to condescend, but I would be careful about making assumptions about other people's health, or your understanding of it unless you are willing to list some kind of qualifications that enable you to make that judgement.
TheCoelacanth 8y ago
So people who abuse both weed and alcohol concurrently aren't generally super productive? What a shock. I'm pretty sure almost any drug is not very good for you if you do it every single day, including the legal ones.
- grawprog 8y ago
  Ya that's kind of my view on things. I've even seen people abuse exercising to the point of breaking their bodies, know of people who abused porn and masturbation until it wrecked their lives and couldn't form proper relationships or maintain ones they had, workaholics who neglect their lives and families, people who have lost themselves in MMO's and alienated their friends and put their jobs at risk. On the complete opposite spectrum i've read stories of people maintaining heroin addictions for decades while holding down respectable jobs and and families, respected scientists or business owners who spark up a joint the moment they get home, people who spent much of their young lives doing ridiculous amounts of drugs but ended up pretty alright in the end. Anything can become an addiction if you let it and even without addictions life itself requires concious effort to make good positive choices every day. Whatever you do in life I feel like as long as you're striving to better yourself, have a positive impact in the world and just generally contribute positively to existence and much as you can, you're probably doing alright. The world's a hard, fucked.up place. Everybody's different and everybody's situation's different. Things that are serious life hampering problems for some are that little something that takes away the harshness of life for others. That guy sitting drunk on the street asking you to listen to him may have been sober for years and less than a half hour ago he watched his whole life unravel before him and for the first time in years turned to a bottle of whiskey. A dude on the street approached me recently and asked.me to listen to him, so I sat for a bit while he talked to me....that's what had just happened to him. We talked for a bit, I told him about some of the thing's I'd gone through in the year before that and by the end of talking with me, he'd decided that what was happening to him wasn't worth waking up tomorrow and turning to whiskey. Apparently i was the first person to even acknowledge him let alone listen. I dunno you can't judge other people's lives. You don't understand the things they've gone through or what they've.experienced. There's reasons for everything, sometimes they're hard to understand but there is.

magic_beans 8y ago

But do you smoke very day? Do you look forward to pot more than anything else? If not, then good for you! Like alcohol, some people take weed to extremes, and others are able to drink one glass every now and again without going overboard.

grawprog 8y ago
I do smoke weed every day. I don't necessarily wake up in the morning and look forward to only that. Ya if I finish work after a hard stressful day sometimes I do look forward to it. But, I look forward to getting home, showering and eating dinner too. If I'm busy doing things where I can't I don't really mind and I don't really think about it or anything. I would say my usage would qualify as habitual but in the end if I can't get some weed or smoke or whatever in a day or for a bit it's all good. Ya I know I rely on it for stress relief, helping with sleep and I honestly just find it enjoyable. I mean I also rely on coffee to wake me up in the morning, food and water to survive and generally many other things that either make my life better or act as a crutch. But in the end, compared to other crutches people rely on, the impact of weed in my life is fairly minimal. I know a guy last year who was addicted to coke who's mom ended up dying in the night because instead of taking her to the hospital when she asked him he wanted to get high and jerk off. I've got a 25 year old cousin with pancreatitis because of his alcohol problem. My brother's just finished rehab for his drinking. I have a friend who came close to death last year.because.of her coke and crack addiction and basically fucked her life. She lost her job, her home for a while, didn't see her kid for months and it basically took ending up in the hospital for close to the tenth time last year, near death with the threat of permanently losing custody of her kid to finally quit after years. I've got another friend who was recently prescribed seroquil and a couple anti-depressants for his anxiety over maybe one day having thoughts about walking into traffic. Last time I seen him he was bragging about the thousands of dollars he was making by double or triple depositing his disability cheques into multiple banks, both his short and long term memory seemed totally messed up he couldn't keep the flow of a conversation, had no idea what had happened only 10-15 minutes previous and he stayed at my house and spent all night awake staring at a wall hallucinating that he'd been watching tron 2 all night. When I got up the TV was off, the internet had been unplugged sometime hours before and he didn't have the TV remote. He had a job interview that day he did not make it to. I dunno i've seen a lot of people abuse substances or even just need something to get by. In the course of my life, pot is pretty much the most harmless thing i've seen. I've watched people going crazy over lack of coffee, cigarettes and booze plenty. Never once seen someone doing that over weed.
- drooogs 8y ago
  i don't mean to condescend (i smoke weed often myself), but please be careful when you compare your habit to others'. if you know a lot of unhealthy people, it can be hard to recognize your own issues.
  - grawprog 8y ago
    It's cool. But i'm well aware of my own issues and problems in life and I assure you they don't come from smoking weed.
  - anon08142018 8y ago
    I don't mean to condescend, but I would be careful about making assumptions about other people's health, or your understanding of it unless you are willing to list some kind of qualifications that enable you to make that judgement.

TheCoelacanth 8y ago

So people who abuse both weed and alcohol concurrently aren't generally super productive? What a shock. I'm pretty sure almost any drug is not very good for you if you do it every single day, including the legal ones.

grawprog 8y ago
Ya that's kind of my view on things. I've even seen people abuse exercising to the point of breaking their bodies, know of people who abused porn and masturbation until it wrecked their lives and couldn't form proper relationships or maintain ones they had, workaholics who neglect their lives and families, people who have lost themselves in MMO's and alienated their friends and put their jobs at risk. On the complete opposite spectrum i've read stories of people maintaining heroin addictions for decades while holding down respectable jobs and and families, respected scientists or business owners who spark up a joint the moment they get home, people who spent much of their young lives doing ridiculous amounts of drugs but ended up pretty alright in the end. Anything can become an addiction if you let it and even without addictions life itself requires concious effort to make good positive choices every day. Whatever you do in life I feel like as long as you're striving to better yourself, have a positive impact in the world and just generally contribute positively to existence and much as you can, you're probably doing alright. The world's a hard, fucked.up place. Everybody's different and everybody's situation's different. Things that are serious life hampering problems for some are that little something that takes away the harshness of life for others. That guy sitting drunk on the street asking you to listen to him may have been sober for years and less than a half hour ago he watched his whole life unravel before him and for the first time in years turned to a bottle of whiskey. A dude on the street approached me recently and asked.me to listen to him, so I sat for a bit while he talked to me....that's what had just happened to him. We talked for a bit, I told him about some of the thing's I'd gone through in the year before that and by the end of talking with me, he'd decided that what was happening to him wasn't worth waking up tomorrow and turning to whiskey. Apparently i was the first person to even acknowledge him let alone listen. I dunno you can't judge other people's lives. You don't understand the things they've gone through or what they've.experienced. There's reasons for everything, sometimes they're hard to understand but there is.