Of course it’s not your experience. Like I said, they keep it quiet. Really just look at how you rant, if you smoked pot would you admit it around somebody that rants like you?
Pretty much everything the government has said about pot since the 1950s is a lie. Even coke and meth they lie about the speed with which one becomes addicted (there are NO single dose addictive drugs out there, except maybe oxygen), and what really happens to addicts (here’s an article that discusses some of that http://www.cracked.com/article_21522_5-facts-about-meth-anti-drug-ads-wont-show-you.html ). I never said drugs are harmless, so there’s a lie from you. That’s the problem with the WOD world, the government and WOD defenders always have to push it too far. There are grim ugly truths about drugs, but the WOD can’t just stick to them, they always have to turn it up to 11, and then people find out they’re being lied to, then they won’t even believe the truth. Which puts both sides in the same boat.
The Dangers of Marijuana have been greatly exaggerated since the 1930s, but I suspect most of those claims were the result of projecting in the absence of actual knowledge instead of "lies." In other words they didn't know what they were talking about. Alternatively some of the exaggeration may have been intended to dissuade by making the danger seem greater.
From what i've seen, the primary danger from Marijuana seems to be that it turns users into worthless F**ks. One of the Potheads I know lives in Colorado. He's forty years old, been using pot since he was a teen, and has NEVER HELD A JOB. Still hasn't got one. Lives off his mother.
You know who's going to end up paying for his medical and retirement? Take a guess.
Even coke and meth they lie about the speed with which one becomes addicted (there are NO single dose addictive drugs out there,
Now see, if I were using your criteria, I would call that a lie. As it is, I will simply say you don't know what you are talking about.
I have a good friend who was a Pimp and Drug dealer in the 1990s. I've hung out in drug houses and watched people do their thing. Crack will get some people the very first time they try it. I've seen it happen.
You know what? On some people it won't. I've seen people walk away from it. So here's the deal. How do you know which people can safely try it and walk away, and how do you know which people will be turned into crack whores after their first try?
My friend, we'll call him OG because that's what he used to call himself, (Stands for Old Gangster) would talk up some girl he saw walking down the street. He was really a very charming fellow. He would talk her into smoking some pot with him, and after awhile he's slip some crack in it.
He said most of the time it took one hit, and he could turn that girl into a crack whore.