Same thing goes for alcohol. You don't call everybody that imbibes in alcohol an alcoholic, do you? Most people who drink are recreational drinkers, not lushes. They have a drink with friends after work or a glass of wine with dinner or a beer after mowing the lawn. They're not buzzed all the time.
But you overtly throw all pot users into the pot head category, implying they are slacker stoners with not direction, motivation or responsibility in their lives. That's just not true.
But having said that, people should not use either alcohol or pot or other drugs while driving or at work. But they do. I've had to fire two employees in the past for drinking on the job. If I was aware of someone smoking pot at work or being high, they would go too.
“your inherent prejudice “
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Those are actually my inherent observations performed over decades. They match the experience of the prior generation with whom I’ve spoken (My father, his brothers and sister) and the experience of the high school students I’ve taught. I think the “inherent prejudice” is all yours and it makes you sound like a petulant teenager.
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“but most people who smoke pot are just casual recreational users”
And your data is taken from? Your inherent prejudice. Keep trying to tie pot heads to wine/alcohol because you need all the filler you can muster since most of us have known or met pot heads (i.e., recreational users - what else is there? Professional Users? Advanced pot users?) at some point in our lives you have to try to make us think we didn’t observe what we observed and really try to get us to think, “Should I believe my life’s experiences going to school with, working around, observing pot users encountered over decades or this whiny advocate for legalized pot?”