Originally posted by ASSVT:
Josch

I beleive that it is the person you may have been at that time, that kept you from striving for a better job. As I stated before I smoke a couple of times a week (used to everyday) yet I bacame the youngest store manager ever at the window covering company I was working at. 20 years old making 40K salary plus 1% store sales, which translated to anoter 12k-15k a year. Now at 23 in an outside sales position I cleared 62k last year.


It all comes down to personel drive to make more and live better.





I think the real question is are you the exception to the rule, or are you the rule?

By far and away most pot-heads I knew (and I knew a LOT more than just a few) were not the poster-children of motivation and drive. Many were before they started smoking.

Coincidence? Hell, no.

One can throw up all the "studies" and "statistics" they want. It still doesn't change the fact that a LARGE percentage of people that start out with pot go on to harder substances.

There's a culture aspect behind pot that enables the "drug lifestyle". The same CAN'T be said of alcohol, even though there are some valid parallels between it's use and abuse. Unless you're willing to pull a Kitty Dukakis and start pounding rubbing alcohol, there's no "super alcohol" or something that is past it to springboard to.

Pot does this in that your first toke opens up a whole new realm of highs and searching for that "perfect" high with some folks; in many cases it doesn't stop with pot.

Legalizing this crap just throws Pandora's Box wide open: it validates a certain BEHAVIOR; a certain dependance on substance use for relaxation...

...which in many cases will lead to trying to find newer and better ways to relax, have fun and get high.

Smoke it if you've got it. Just don't try to legalize this sh!t, because there is NOTHING good that will come of it. That's my entire argument, because NO ONE has ever been able to tell me what good comes from illicit drug use. The physical and mental damage that ALL drugs cause is real, there's no denying it.

By the way, if you believe for one second that there's a chance in hell that pot will be legalized in the US anytime soon, you definitely are smoking it. Check the state and government legal action on the tobacco industry over the past decade, the pervasive health issues that it causes and now try to tell me that there's a valid reason for legalizing an unfiltered joint.

Dope is a blast, be it pot or any other substance (as I've tried a lot in another lifetime). I'll never deny it and I won't lie to anyone about it. The damage, pain and suffering that the aftermath of it causes isn't. It's Hell on Earth and it's not work risking. There are better ways to relax, get a "rush" or have fun.

Almost all of them that I can rattle off at a moment's notice don't run the risk of creating a lifeless echo of a person...

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