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Originally Posted by bermuDa
I think the problem is not everyone who smokes habitually and few of those who oppose its use see it as a tool. they see it as a lifestyle.
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You know, I think you're probably right about that. I've found it's usually because they've had to deal with someone before who was a real pain, and who also smoked marajuana. Even worse, they just suck up a stereotype from uninformed sources. To reiterate earlier points, I could say the same thing about video games. I used to work with a bunch of guys that played video games
non-stop...always went to DefCon, etc. It's a lifestyle. It can be detrimental to other facets of one's life as well; for example, one of these guys would leave his wife and two kids waiting for him for
hours at home after work, while he was hiding in our computer lab playing Quake.
I'm personally of the opinion that objects surrounding us (including drugs, video games, sexual partners, etc) don't take on a value in the sense of good or bad, so much as we define that value in our relationship to these external objects.