I'm scared I won't grow out of pot...

[banana hammock]

first off, I love pot. but I've noticed that the majority of stoners I've encountered are all kinda.. pathetic. they're still living at their parents' house or at best a shabby little apartment, have gone to junior colleges for too long or have stopped altogether. they work at dead-end jobs, spending half if not all of their minimal paycheck on more herb. I dunno... maybe there's a whole 'nother world of stoners who carry on decent, productive, and respectable lives. I just haven't met them. (please do convince me otherwise with examples of such people if you can!)

I guess I'm just honestly scared that once I get past the stage where pot can simply be regarded as a rite of passage (like that high school/college experimental phase), I'm still going to be doing it. I won't have outgrown it. and then it's going to hit me that I'm 30 years old, still toking everyday, sitting on my ass and typing into a weed forum, raving about my latest piece.

I don't know if I'm gonna get a lot of hate from this.. but it's just how I feel.

banana hammock Reviewed by banana hammock on 08-14-2007. I'm scared I won't grow out of pot... first off, I love pot. but I've noticed that the majority of stoners I've encountered are all kinda.. pathetic. they're still living at their parents' house or at best a shabby little apartment, have gone to junior colleges for too long or have stopped altogether. they work at dead-end jobs, spending half if not all of their minimal paycheck on more herb. I dunno... maybe there's a whole 'nother world of stoners who carry on decent, productive, and respectable lives. I just haven't met them. Rating: 5

[HighTillIDie]

sounds to me like you are on your way... and yea there is another world of people that get high (people on the super down low) but you described the vast majority

[Unknownfigure]

You'd be surprised at how many people with power smoke bud. The only difference between them and the lowly stoner, is that they have money. Lots of it. And they get dank ass shit every time they toke. They have a house, a nice car, etc. A friend of mine goes through a qp of rhino a month or so, last time I checked, and he's a lawyer (he's even worked some of my cases, heh...)


If YOU make your life a success, it won't matter if you toke when you are 30. Weed will become legal within the next sixteen years, so it wouldn't be anything bad. If you made your life a success while smoking weed the entire time, that just proves that weed is not that bad at all. So what if you'll still toke at 30? My grandfather toked until the day he died. (But I suppose it'd be natural for him, he was in Vietnam. Said he and the troop did alot of different drugs to cope with the craziness on the battlefield. He just stuck with the natural herb.)

[WeedyBoyWonder]

It's down to the individual, and i'm disappointed you're so stereotypical of someone who smokes cannabis. Parents, governess, doctors... anyone and everyone can smoke pot and be in total control of what they do with their life and how it turns out, its down to you. If you're thinking in 30 years you're going to be a "loser", do someting about it.

[dannyboy420]

Agreed. Pot won't make you a loser, you will.

It's down to the individual, and i'm disappointed you're so stereotypical of someone who smokes cannabis. Parents, governess, doctors... anyone and everyone can smoke pot and be in total control of what they do with their life and how it turns out, its down to you. If you're thinking in 30 years you're going to be a "loser", do someting about it.

[igot4cheep]

Woooo, Calm down... I have noticed one thing about Marijuana smokers; there are many types of smokers. The main two type are smoker who doses it because he likes it. He/She smokes because it fun and they are having a good time. Then there are smokers who do it because there life is shallow and they have no purpose in life. They smoke to escape there life and that said. At least thatâ??s what I think.

You my friend do no fit tin the last category. Itâ??s simple; you have thought this out (probably when high). If you didnâ??t care you would not took time and wright this out. So calm down. Itâ??s not weed that makes people lazy or looses. Thatâ??s just who they are and they are blaming Marijuana for it. Not every can be a winner at the game of life. There has to be some kinda balance.

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[psteve]

Don't worry! Weed apathy is a myth!!!
I've been smoking weed for 36 years.
I also ran my own company, managed several annual festivals (still managing one), and travel to Europe regularly. I live on the west coast with my soul mate, who also smokes every day. She is a degreed professional, working in a major hospital. We own a home, and drive a Prius.
We met at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam.

[orangeman]

You probably don't meet people who are responsible stoners because they really don't make it everyone's business to know what they do. You might actually know a lot of people who are succesful and smoke marijuana but just do a good job at not making it a top priority when other things are important and keep it a private thing.

[Jouryokujin]

A lot of my friend's parents smoke, and I live in an upper-middle class suburb. I go to college at the University of Cincinnati, and several of my professors smoke. I'm a productive person, and still in college...I'm successful in life so far, and I smoke a lot. An old employer of mine said, when he found out I smoked, it changed his opinion of marijuana and users completely (he used to think weed killed brain cells and made people apathetic/irresponsible).

Chances are, the people you know with shitty lives smoked because their lives are shitty. Their lives aren't shitty because they smoke.

[Justinrg]

True, your looking at the wrong people. There are tons of people that are stoner's and can survive and prosper in this world and still smoke bud. It all depends on whats more important to you, those who have shitty lives smoke for it to seem better and are happy in the position there in with there life because of it. You don't have to be a happy person just because you met societies standards of success. Remember that.