“Pot has ruined more lives than just about any other drug. Lost motivation, lost career prospects lost self respect.”
Alcohol & tobacco have ruined/killed more people & their families than any drug on the planet. 0 people have ever died from using cannabis. It cannot physically harm a person, even when it’s abused. There is no physical addiction to cannabis.
As someone who began using cannabis as medicine in Feb 2015 I can assure you my motivations, my daily attention to my career have not changed one iota. In fact, my life has been improved drastically since I began using cannabis to treat Anti-Depressant Withdrawal Syndrome & anxiety. For folks like me who duly took the prescribed meds for 20+ years but never really got better for more than a year or less—cannabis is a great blessing. Thanks be to God above for this wonderful plant.
Your experience and love affair with pot is not everyone’s experience. Pot is addictive as hell. I know you smoke every day but could quit anytime you want to. I believe you.
I am glad you were spared.
Both of my siblings were ruined by marijuana, which indeed became the gateway to more obviously (but less insidiously) damaging drugs.
At a busy retail store in the 1990s, where most of the employees used drugs (but I did not), I could tell at a glance when a co-worker showed up on marijuana versus when not: When he/she came in high on marijuana, it meant that I, the sober, rational and motivated one, would be doing the work of two people that day. It never failed.
I have a background in chemistry, and am a nutritionist. No one will ever convince me that ingesting marijuana is natural or harmless.
See, I have friends who have cancer, in remission and they also looked to cannabis as an alternative to Xanax and similar drugs, which can just sap your energy as they turn you emotionally gray...