Having worked around pot-heads in my life...the guys and gals who smoke pot at least three or four times a day....it may not be brain cells destroyed, but motivation to do anything is dissolved. The guy becomes worthless in the shop, and won’t do anything to support the family. The guy who smokes weed once or twice a week....I don’t care about their issues, and they can handle it. The other folks who need a bit at 7AM, noon, and 5PM....every single day? No....they’ve gone to the abuse level and can’t live a normal life.
Please note...for the folks in serious medical issues and don’t have to work/operate equipment....I’m all for them getting all the pot they need to control the pain. You just can’t convince me though that 300 million Americans need medical marijuana.
Someone who smokes pot all day will obviously be impaired and unmotivated. Just like someone who drinks or takes pills all day. The difference with pot is that it is non-toxic and only mentally addictive so an addict who resolves the mental addiction will not have permenent damage. It can also be grown almost for free so there is no need to steal.
What about the people who can't work due to addictions to booze, video games, porn, facebook, etc?
Should we ban everything that is potentially addictive to a few percent of the population?
The guy smoking pot to the destruction of his life/his family’s life is no different than the guy drinking alcohol to the the same point. But one we find socially acceptable. Because of their lobbying machinery in Washington.
Your description sounds a lot like the guys who take a nip morning, noon and get drunk at night as opposed to those who drink socially Friday an Saturday evening. I was renovating a house with a fellow who would get high when we had a boring job like scraping old wallpaper off a wall to prep it for paint or new wallpaper. He was not high when we had to measure and fit the new wallpaper.