I think the mass distribution of downers like weed may also be spoiling people's ability to be ambitious and productive.
This is what the normie morons who think weed is all sunshine and daisies don't understand. A drug doesn't have to be addictive, or physically destructive to your body for it to be dangerous. What weed does is make a person okay with being bored. It makes them okay with being stuck at their current level. Sure, you could bring up the argument that it doesn't always do that for everyone. If it did, none of the 60's rock bands would have kept making music. However, most people aren't Paul McCartney, or Keith Richards, or David Gilmour. Hell, even among the hippie rock bands, a good number of them ended up dead from drugs, etc. (part of the 27 club).
My former roommate smokes weed all the time. He still works at the fast casual place I left 3 years ago. He is coming up on 6 or 7 years now still working there at the same level position. My hourly rate at my job is more than double what I made there, but his rate has barely increased by a couple dollars. He spends all his time making sandwiches and salads, then going home and smoking pot. Occasionally he will go out and drive around to places to see them, but other than that, he doesn't really do anything.
I like him, but it infuriates me how he just doesn't want to try and lift himself out of poverty. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm on a career path that eventually will. The one big difference between us is that I don't do drugs, and he does.
Not that I defend the man but I think he truly does not give a fuck.
Modern Diogenes if you will.
Does he get enough food to live another day? Yes.
Are his clothes clean enough to not smell and scratch himself constantly? Yes.
Does he need more entertainment than he already has? No.
This is what the normie morons who think weed is all sunshine and daisies don't understand. A drug doesn't have to be addictive, or physically destructive to your body for it to be dangerous. What weed does is make a person okay with being bored. It makes them okay with being stuck at their current level. Sure, you could bring up the argument that it doesn't always do that for everyone. If it did, none of the 60's rock bands would have kept making music. However, most people aren't Paul McCartney, or Keith Richards, or David Gilmour. Hell, even among the hippie rock bands, a good number of them ended up dead from drugs, etc. (part of the 27 club).
My former roommate smokes weed all the time. He still works at the fast casual place I left 3 years ago. He is coming up on 6 or 7 years now still working there at the same level position. My hourly rate at my job is more than double what I made there, but his rate has barely increased by a couple dollars. He spends all his time making sandwiches and salads, then going home and smoking pot. Occasionally he will go out and drive around to places to see them, but other than that, he doesn't really do anything.
I like him, but it infuriates me how he just doesn't want to try and lift himself out of poverty. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm on a career path that eventually will. The one big difference between us is that I don't do drugs, and he does.
Not that I defend the man but I think he truly does not give a fuck. Modern Diogenes if you will.
Does he get enough food to live another day? Yes. Are his clothes clean enough to not smell and scratch himself constantly? Yes. Does he need more entertainment than he already has? No.
He's exactly where he wants to be in his life.