vstoklosa: 2008-01-28 18:47:38

says: Good for you to think about giving up pot. Keep heading in that direction

I am more than twice your age and know several people who smoke it often, and they are pretty much losers in life. They are not bad people, they just are seriously bone lazy. They do 'just enough' to get by, they 'subsist', and they are not happy people.

With all the energy you have at your command, and your leadership potential, you really will have a bright future - financially secure because of your hard work, and likely even gratified by your work.

Smoking weed can seriously get in the way of all the good things that could otherewise come your way. Also, from the legality standpoint, who needs that on their 'permanent record' if you get arrested for it?

You body is a gift, and it is your mandate to do the best you can with it in this life. Enjoy yourself, but avoid illicit drugs and even alcohol in quantity. There really is no pay off for using either of those.

Best of luck to you :)

-Vic

bethrocks: 2008-01-29 11:39:47

says:

I smoked pot...alot when I was younger.  I look back now and wonder about all the money all the time all the energy I wasted on such a non productive pursuit.

I quit when I started my family, I didn't really have any difficulty stopping, but I was pregnant and getting high while pregnant was out of the question.  After my beautiful baby girl was born there was no question, getting high was just no longer an option.

For a very brief period of time (maybe a few weeks) I missed it a little, but I was so busy and had so much to look forward to with the upcoming birth of my daughter that  I didn't have much time to think about it. 

Although I was married I was basically a single Mom because my husband continued to get high and it was when I was 8 mos along that he developed a true addiction to coke.  Trust me, my opinion of drug usage changed drastically then!

I know the siren song effect that drugs can have, been there done that.  I also saw first hand just how out of hand it can become.  I could write a novel on how bad things got with my husband.

For the record he did eventually get clean, but the whole experience changed him. The marriage fell apart years later, but the genesis was with his out of control drug usage. It seemed to reinforce a "me, me" attitude that to this day he has been unable to overcome.  He seems incapable of thinking of his children or others (I realize of course that this attitude was probably formed much earlier). 

Oddly enough, what really killed the marriage was his lack of respect for himself.  So even though every thing had to be all about him all the time, it was all just empty drama if you know what I mean?

I don't want to lecture, and it appears I may already have crossed that line.  I just wanted to say, that where you are right now it's tough. You know what everyone says about how bad it is, but your first hand experience has not been so bad.  It's very easy to think, where's the harm? It's just pot right?

This is one of those things you just kind of have to take on faith, everyone must be saying stop for a valid reason. You spent the first 15 years of life drug free; you know that daily life can be lived without drugs you've already done it!  Boredom can be overcome in a million different ways!!

Good luck to you!!!

Beth 

I'm here to help

climbergirl: 2008-02-04 07:38:45

says: One thing that struck me is the industry in which you work. From my past experiences, the food service industry has a huge drug culture. Because the industry's jobs are plentiful and short-term employment is not frowned upon, it's the perfect industry for stoners. You can get fired for a stoner attitude and there's another job around the corner. Are your work-mates clean or a part of the drug culture? Just a thought.