Quote:
Originally Posted by mineistaken
I agree with that. When you mentioned 20 years it sounded like its pretty much non stop, not like 5 times a year or something  |
I go through phases with it. Sometimes I smoke several times a day for weeks. Sometimes I go a few weeks with no interest in smoking at all. I'm your average cannabis user. You are probably surrounded by people like me, yet 100% unaware of it. In all honesty, the users who color other consumers as bad examples of good humans are more often than not on drugs that far exceed the harmless quality of just marijuana. The problem isn't the marijuana, it's the other junk they're on.
Weed is harmless. I wouldn't want my kids smoking it, but as far as things that people can do that aren't strictly speaking, 'positive' in nature, marijuana is without question one of the better ones. I would just confiscate the pot and tell them that I prefer they not smoke this stuff at this point in time, because it can be a motivation killer. Get your education, chase girls, and worry about being a kid. Weed will still exist when you're grown up.
But in the case I had a kid who was convinced that marijuana users were junkies, that child and I would sit down and have a serious discussion about the merits of knowing what words mean before they get said, and the importance of not being judgmental of what others do that doesn't have any effect on his or her life at all. Life is a lot more peaceful if you learn to accept the things about people that you dislike.
Beyond that, I don't have any junkie friends, but I didn't grow up under a rock and I know a few of the people in my graduating class managed to piss their lives away on hard drugs. I'm sure I could track one of them down if my kid needed to see what a junkie actually was and how a junkie lived.
Responsible pot smokers are saints, and we're everywhere.