Scarborough was correct in his simple analysis. Yes, I know many people who have smoked pot, particularly as youth. But any adult I know who is a regular pot-smoker I do find to be unemployable, lazy morons.
Pot has an effect that seems difficult to pinpoint, yet is evidenced in the ancient Cannabis cultures of the Middle East and that portion of the orient and in the modern awareness about the extraordinary uniformity of “potheads”, the use of pot so suddenly seems to create a somewhat new person, and not for the better.
The alcohol based West has always rejected Cannabis as an intoxicant, for thousands of years it has done so. From the Greeks to the Crusaders, and up until just the last 20 or 40 years, cannabis was seen as a threat to what Western man aspired to be.
I know a lot of people in very prominent business positions who are regular consumers of marijuana. I don’t find them unemployable, lazy morons, but I will say that I believe every single one of them could be living up to a MUCH higher standard and work ethic.
I know I am personally capable of great and amazing things. That’s been proven in my current role as an engineer, as I am seen as the senior to all of my peers and consistently referenced for in depth analysis. When I was smoking pot 5 - 10 years ago, I had that same potential, but as a regular user, there’s no way I would’ve ever achieved it.
I believe it makes the dumb into morons, the average into the unmotivated, and the intelligent into the uninspired. It takes us down a notch, and with a serious intellectual and intelligence deficit in this country, we don’t need drugs exacerbating an already poor situation.
Because with or without marijuana they would be the same way. It's the multitude around you that you have no idea about (because they are adult about it) that would floor you.