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Recreational pot use big winner in election
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<blockquote data-quote="jetsam" data-source="post: 704725" data-attributes="member: 20689"><p>the effects of pot are so different for everyone that I feel that it is totally related to the individual . also i believe any mental illnesses play a part in how those individuals react to it. there is no one answer. I was a teen in the 70's. the use of pot was huge in my circles. Most of my friends used it including me. Some of them went to other drugs, but probably would have used other drugs anyway because that was there makeup. Some used it only recreationally and kept it that way. (still using pot to this day but nothing more). They became successful and remained so to this day. My brother is now retired after a very successful career as an engineer and he used recreationally. However my other brother has a drug problem and never achieved much in life and will need to work till the day he dies. My husband tried pot in his teens, did not like the way it made him feel (paranoid) and never smoked again. Throughout my life i used it recreationally here and there (alcohol always made me very ill) Never smoked when I was pregnant, or anywhere around my children ever ! When I had cancer I used again for pain management. I could always walk away from it. haven't used it in years now. But feel I could do it today and then walk away again with no problem. My son has ADHD that was diagnosed when he was very young, we also feel that he has some other mental illness (i highly suspect a personality disorder) that no dr would commit to and they tried many medications throughout his early years that never worked. When he was 14 he started smoking pot. He claims it calms him and wouldn't dream of stopping! unfortunately he , as you know, went on to harder drugs...heroine. He goes through periods of not doing hard stuff, but he ALWAYS smokes pot. My friends have children who use pot, and are college students getting good grades, getting good careers, maintaining relationships, etc.. Its the individual. as someone else said, not everyone who drinks becomes an alcoholic either. I don't see any difference between pot and alcohol so I don't see the difference that legalization would make except maybe teaching kids about it like we do about alcohol</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>b</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jetsam, post: 704725, member: 20689"] the effects of pot are so different for everyone that I feel that it is totally related to the individual . also i believe any mental illnesses play a part in how those individuals react to it. there is no one answer. I was a teen in the 70's. the use of pot was huge in my circles. Most of my friends used it including me. Some of them went to other drugs, but probably would have used other drugs anyway because that was there makeup. Some used it only recreationally and kept it that way. (still using pot to this day but nothing more). They became successful and remained so to this day. My brother is now retired after a very successful career as an engineer and he used recreationally. However my other brother has a drug problem and never achieved much in life and will need to work till the day he dies. My husband tried pot in his teens, did not like the way it made him feel (paranoid) and never smoked again. Throughout my life i used it recreationally here and there (alcohol always made me very ill) Never smoked when I was pregnant, or anywhere around my children ever ! When I had cancer I used again for pain management. I could always walk away from it. haven't used it in years now. But feel I could do it today and then walk away again with no problem. My son has ADHD that was diagnosed when he was very young, we also feel that he has some other mental illness (i highly suspect a personality disorder) that no dr would commit to and they tried many medications throughout his early years that never worked. When he was 14 he started smoking pot. He claims it calms him and wouldn't dream of stopping! unfortunately he , as you know, went on to harder drugs...heroine. He goes through periods of not doing hard stuff, but he ALWAYS smokes pot. My friends have children who use pot, and are college students getting good grades, getting good careers, maintaining relationships, etc.. Its the individual. as someone else said, not everyone who drinks becomes an alcoholic either. I don't see any difference between pot and alcohol so I don't see the difference that legalization would make except maybe teaching kids about it like we do about alcohol b [/QUOTE]
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