heh, dayum, opinions are like assholes.....and of course I'll give mine hehe.
everything is a shade of grey. for every responsible drinker, there's a drunk who beats his wife. for every person who likes to partake in a little coke a couple times a year, there's a cheesehead who just drained his family's bank account. for every person who smokes pot and is cool with it, there's some loser who, blah blah blah.
bottom line I think is, people are people, and they're gonna be good or bad regardless of which poison they choose or have in front of them. Some people are just scum, no matter what you do, but does that mean the good people who handle their shit shouldn't be able to partake? Not in my opinion.
I'm almost 30 years old, been smoking buds since I was 18, college educated, married, kids, home, cars, great job, side business, computer geek, etc etc. Drugs haven't negatively affected my life, but I know a lot of people who have been negatively affected. Their personalities couldn't handle it.
One thing that does piss me off though, is alcohol and drug rehab. Why? Cause we're paying for it, through tax dollars. My stepfather is a vietnam vet, and at the Vets hospital, they cleared out the 8th floor of guys who fought for their country, to help out 20 year old heroin addicts. That shit pissed me the fuck off. Want some help ya heroin junkie? Here's a gun and a bullet, aim at head, pull trigger.
Oh, one last thing....anytime I've driven under the influence of marijuana, it has been a good thing, and not because I'm "paranoid" ya knuckleheads, but because instead of being all fired up to get where I'm going, and getting all pissed about sitting in a row of unmoving cars (traffic here is a bitch!!), it's like, oh well, I'll get there when I get there. If I had to choose between booze and buds, I'd take buds in a heartbeat. Alcohol in my eyes is the worst product on the market, responsible for more family trouble and deaths than anything else in this country.
thanks for reading my 2 cents