Pot use has gotten out of hand lately, and I am getting tired of it. Some people give lame reasons for using it. “I’m stressed” or “My back hurts.” Boo-freaking-hoo.
Learn to relax or start exercising. Too many people use pot as a crutch, and now all they have to do is go to the right doctor and they can get a card so they can legally purchase marijuana.
Now, I know there are some cases where medical marijuana has improved some people’s lives. I’m not talking about them, I’m talking about the people who use pot illegally yet say that they are using it for “medical” reasons or because it is the cool thing to do.
I have a friend who I have known for 11 years, and ever since I was in elementary school I referred to him as the smart kid. He would help me with my homework and get good grades.
When he entered his sophomore year in high school, he began slacking in school and started to smoke pot. I thought it was a phase, but he never grew out of it. Now he is doing the same thing that he was doing in high school, he is 23 still living at home, no job, no motivation and sneaking out of his house in the middle of the night to go to a friend’s house to smoke some pot. He now says that he smokes pot because of an accident he had gotten in, and he can quit whenever he wants.
That may sound like just an extreme case, but it is not. I have family members and other friends who fall in the same boat as my friend, and they couldn’t do any less to try to better their lives.
Now I have another friend who is pregnant and smokes pot. I have constantly urged her to quit but to no avail. She insists on smoking. Her excuses are “At least it’s not a cigarette,” and “I have to because I won’t eat anything otherwise.” Those are both lame excuses yet she doesn’t seem to mind that she is hurting her baby. And that just shows how addictive marijuana can be.
Personally, I have tried pot and I didn’t see the thrill in it. I don’t understand how someone can throw their money away just to get a lame “high,” and if filling your lungs with smoke and killing yourself is exciting then I must be a really boring person. And for the people who say that you have to be “high” to enjoy something, then that something mustn’t be that good to begin with.