About 12 years ago, there was an interview on NPR with a Dutch PhD guy who was discussing the increasing problem in the Netherlands of people going on physical disability class at youthful ages. The NPR guy tried to lead the conversation in a certain way...almost in some effort to avoid discussing the ‘other’ topic.
So the PhD Dutch guy describes how people are having more and more mental-issue type retirements (not physical issues like your back or crippling disease). At some point, he notes a fair number of the applicants have anxiety-related issues. They can’t cope with work or the stress in some office or shop. They eventually get a doctor to sign off, and go on medical retirement....some in the 30s....a few even in their 20s.
These are people, if you think about it....affected by continued and hyped-up use of marijuana. Society in the Netherlands now has to pay for their status in life. Eventually, I think the same issue will occur in Colorado. With these homeless losers in Colorado...they’d need a rehab program and be forced off the stuff for at least a year to have some success.
I’m going to guess you have never smoke pot if you think it does all that
I smoked for about 15 years
So I’ll break it down
Hyperactive rail thin creative can’t sit still folks cannot smoke too much weed...it does not have as bad an effect on them...
It makes them normal speed
Regular folks who smoke all day every day will likely get more apathetic and procrastinate more than otherwise
Some will get what I call an objectionable personality disorder which means they don’t like to be bothered and say no to anything that might change the static effortless lifestyle
Pot is great for trust fund kids like my brother or Shep Rose on Southern Charm reality show
Normal occasional users like folks who smoke after work or befor sex or on a camping trip or at deer camp will have pretty zero negative influences other than the immediate intoxication which is fairly subtle compared to heavy booze use or any cocaine or any hallucinogens
Booze if abuse is exponentially worse
I detest booze more or less
I also detest pothead chronic do nothings
But I know which is worse for America by far
Alcohol
No question
A chronic pothead is not comparable