Elizabethh I'm sorry to hear that you know a lot of kids that smoke. I'm even more sorry if you condone the practice of kids smoking pot. I know and have known a lot of potheads, both adults and kids, having been a part of that world most of my life. I realize they aren't all apathetic and lazy. They are almost all paranoid though. Anyone that's doing something that's illegal on a regular basis will naturally be paranoid to a point. They have, however, limited their choices in life based on their belief system. With Dvaz 's friend being an exception to the rule, most businesses drug test. Even in states where pot is legal, they drug test. I understand that businesses hiring low-paid warehouse workers or ditch diggers won't necessarily test these applicant's, but I doubt that there are too many engineering or aerospace companies hiring without a drug test. The point is you limit yourself, and after a while it becomes second-nature to just write things off completely. Law enforcement? Nah. Military? Unlikely, Engineering and Aerospace? Probably not. Insurance? Banking? Maybe, if you're a good faker and have access to baby pee.. Arts and Entertainment? There ya' go! Teaching? Could be your calling. Drug use is limiting, and the mindset is limiting. You will be "cool", and so you will tend to only seek "cool" people to hang out with, thus limiting yourself further. Over time, it will usually develop into a you vs them mentality, and this thread, my friends, is a perfect example.
@TheWizard I condone the practice of people making their own decision in their own life. I understand everything you are saying but if that were enough to influence laws, alcohol should overwhelmingly be outlawed. At least there is science to back up how alcohol literally destroys your body and the number of fatal car accidents relating to alcohol is depressing (in the US, its approx 28 per day, about 1 death every 51 minutes directly resulting from an alcohol related car accident). If marijuana were federally legal, I would totally understand random drug tests to see if an employee is high WHILE at work. But again, I don't think it's a companies business what someone does in their personal free time. You don't see employers testing employees for alcohol use. That is solely because its legal. Very soon, people will be forced to look at marijuana differently if they even want to have a staff to employ. It has massively become accepted in younger people and eventually, those younger people will be making and changing laws (and they will also be the business owners, who determine whether or not they drug test their employees). I don't personally believe anyone has the right to tell me what to do in my free time, not the government or an employer. I also disagree on marijuana being "limiting on a brain". I truly believe marijuana smokers have more active brains and imaginations. 4951