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Originally Posted by Adri
^^ Don't blame the pot, blame your friend and sister for being dumbasses. Like mixedmedia said, the problem is not with the drug, it's with the users.
There are many, many "normal" people who smoke pot every day and have for years, and you would never know they'd ever been high. Then there are the folks who smoke it twice and decide now would be a good time to move on to heroin and gangbanging. You just never know...
But just like the idiots who don't know when to stop chowing down the McDonald's cheeseburgers before they gain 300 lbs and have heart attacks, you can't blame pot for "ruining" your friends. Your friends ruined themselves by abusing it.
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Absolutely. Take the generation that lived through the 60s and the 70s...if you ask around, eventually you'll find someone of that age that smoked every day at some point and yet managed to become a successful adult. I know parents of friends who still smoke on a regular basis and have done just fine in their lives.
Some people are going to become addicts, and in those cases, marijuana acts as a gateway. But you cannot paint all users of marijuana with the same brush--it just doesn't work. It's like alcohol--has a potential for abuse, and combined with people who have addictive personalities, it's likely to be abused. Yet there are thousands of people out there who are moderate to light drinkers, and we don't throw them in the same bucket as the alcoholics--it wouldn't be fair. To assume everyone who smokes marijuana is going to behave the same way regarding addiction pretty much disregards the huge role the personality of the individual plays in the situation, as well as their socio-economic status (something I've found to be a key factor in addiction).