“I’m guessing you live in California, or perhaps Further up the coast. Sometimes just being in the right place at the right time can change your fortunes for the better.”
No. I live in Texas. I do travel around 150 days a year.
“I bet I have a wider range of social ladder than do you. I’ve seen the gutter and the Manor house. I know millionaires and paupers.”
Maybe, but I kind of tend to doubt it.
I get a similar spread from my work.
Then i'm guessing you live in Austin or the vicinity. It has been invaded by California pot heads for many years now. They are bringing the stupid with them. They soiled their nest in California, now they are trying to soil the nest in their new State.
Yeah, that cohort is highly educated and specializes in tech, especially computer science, networks and such. Many of them attended prestigious universities and grew up with silver spoons in their mouths.
Sure, people like that can probably handle smoking pot, but have you ever considered that not all of the population is made up of such gifted people? What do we do about the non-wealthy/non-gifted people who smoke it? To the poor it represents a real danger to their ability to earn a living. It causes a lot of them to not be able to put food on the table, and their entire families end up suffering.
Should we have one set of laws for the wealthy gifted class and a different set of laws for the poor mundane class?
But you appear capable of reason.