Purple Laze
People often talk about the long-term mental damage of cannabis or how its sale funds crime, but there's one effect that is often overlooked.
A few of my friends over the years have been long-term weed smokers and one thing I've noticed is that they begin to draw themselves into their own little circle and spend the majority of their time smoking, talking about, or earning money to buy spliff-filler. It often begins very slowly, but eventually our social group became divided and the smokers would stop coming to the pub and lock themselves away in their little smoking dens. Everything became a massive effort to them and simple tasks like turning up to work on time or remembering to make an important phone call became increasingly complicated. It quickly became clear to me that the biggest danger posed by cannabis is the way it drains habitual smokers of their ambition and drive. They might talk philosophy and how to change the world into the small hours, but when it came to getting off their tobacco-stained couches & doing something about it they just couldn't be bothered. They'd do it after the next toke, the next ten-bag.
What worries me about living in a cannabis-legal Britain is that more and more people may become despondent and lazy, and nothing will get done. Some of my friends, very intelligent people, are only now considering taking on higher education & doing something with their lives now they've cut down on their smoking and the purple haze is beginning to clear. If weed was to become more widely-used would this lead to a drop in university graduates and a rise in under-achieving?
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Reply #1 on : Fri February 15, 2008, 00:28:39