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Originally Posted by Painted
Maybe those people didn't want to do better. It wasn't pot, it was the person. I know many people, dopeheads and straight-edgers, who simply have lower expectations than me.
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Therein lies the rub, see people (especially today's environment) want to look for reasons why they do not advance or why others do not want to advance.
Everyone has differing goals in life, everyone has their own sense of what matters and what they want to achieve.
Me, I've had more money than I could ever want.... but it didn't make me happy. I had a future very bright and could have done anything, but I didn't like who I was. I found something that made me tolerate myself... gambling. When I hit my bottom, I realized what I wanted, happiness and to help others.... money was and is nothing more than a necessary evil to make sure I can live.
Did my addiction make me that way? NO, I did.
See this is where the GOP reasoning falls apart. They talk big about letting people decide things for themselves and that the weak will falter the strong will prevail..... but then they take away choices because
they believe they know what is best for everyone. They pass judgement on people and believe that their vision of success should be everyone else's and if someone chooses not to have that same vision then it must be drugs, or laziness, or whatever. When in reality it just maybe someone is totally happy where they are in life at that moment.
The GOP (and we are or have seen proof of this in Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Bennett, Foley, Noe, and other GOP leaders and talking heads) talk about people needing to take responsibility for their actions but then when the scandals break on them it's because of "political witchhunts, addictions, and so on, they want to be victims..... and yet they criticize everyone else for claiming they are victims.
In the end what a person does with their own body is up to them, not society. As long as they know the consequences and don't hurt innocent people, it's noone else's business what they do.
If someone wants to load up a bong every night and get wiped out in their home.... big fucking deal.
Our country is falling apart, our children and their children are falling so far behind educationally, financially (the massive debts we are leaving them) and spiritually that the legality of drugs shouldn't even be on the radar.
Politicians and our government should be more worried about rebuilding America and getting the economy truly strong again and our asses out of debt than worrying about who is smoking a joint or buying a rock out on the street.