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Originally Posted by Bond
Care to elaborate as to what you're implying?
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It's been years since I briefly looked into the whole "Weed isn't as bad as hard drugs" issue so I can't really elaborate too well, other than to say I know a number of people that smoke pot (some quite frequently), none of whom are pitiful people with terrible lives that anywheres near parallel what is portrayed in the movie (not that the movie doesn't portay the drugs it deals with realistically)...
To be a tad more specific, I'm willing to bet that there have been very few cases attributed to pot usage that result in removal of various body parts (or the infections that caused it, for that matter), complete mental breakdowns, and the selling of one's body out of desperation for a joint...
Just a hunch...
Also I personally know of only 2 adults (that is to say, a generation before me, not "adults" as I, a 21 year old, am an "adult") who were into pot bigtime when they were younger, and both have survived and are able to make it on their own (with their families) in the mind-bogglingly expensive Arlington/DC area... One even owns his own (non-drug-dealing) business...
And, I suppose, that I tried it 5 or 6 times before deciding it wasn't doing anything for me (other than making me extremely dizzy when combined with alcohol) and walking away unscathed... I doubt I'd have been so 'lucky' if I was trying, say, heroin... 5 or 6 times...
But I was moreso just curious if MrCoffee's friends had indeed graduated to harder drugs than I was interested in sparking some form of debate...
The "and now are just ****ed up...very realistic..." seems to imply that they did, but depending on one's upbringing and whether or not they had actually heard anything beyond the simple "Drugs are bad" and "You'll run over little girls on bicycles" rhetoric, the definition of "****ed up" can vary...
Although I probably feel that way because when
I was around 16 and I found out a friend of mine smoked pot (and later than a number of other acquaintances did), I (the isolated little boy brought up by a nice, drug-free, bad-word-free, realism-free family) was rather shocked and dissapointed, and probably would have labeled the whole situation as "****ed up" before, as you can tell, I eased up a bit on that whole stance...
*shrug*