Actually, I have seen the IQ score of one of the three. He scores in the high genius range. 2 points shy of Einstein (no exaggeration). It is his own self-stated lack of motivation that keeps him from keeping a job. He is one of my best friends and I have actually helped him get a job. He worked with me delivering for a distributor, and was good at it. He very well could have been a rocket scientist, honestly. He has the intelligence for it. The only problem is he will quit a job, not matter how good of a job it is, if he knows he is about to be drug tested.
Yes, before you say it the company could stop drug testing if he is doing well. But people have to make sacrifices in life. I sacrifice time, sometimes self respect, and the occasional family event to keep a job that is overall good to my family and I. IMO there is no reason to continue to do something recreational if it threatens your job and responsibilities.
Well raw IQ means little in terms of traditional notions of success. Tenacity is much more important. I’m just asking the qustion - is pot his disease or a symptom of his disease? I certainly can’t accept the idea that his pot smoking is anything less than his own choice.
And further I think sending him in to do dangerous undercover police work is not the answer. This is the nature of having laws against these kinds of “crimes”. There is nobody complaining about them, because there are no “victims” in any traditional sense of the word. So we have to bend and break our constitutional protections in order to enforce them and do all manner of questionable activities like sending people in to do police work who have no business doing police work.
In the end all of this drug warring didn’t save you friend from his choices. I have said a prayer for your friend that his eyes will open.