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

[BlueJayWay]

I don't think you are going to become like that if YOU don't want to. If you just sit around on yer ass all day long and smoke and never make yerself get up and do anything productive then yes you will turn out like that. My boyfriend and I write papers for school sometimes and work all the time while stoned. No big. Just learn how to be productive while high.

[Storm Crow]

You would never guess that I have used pot for 40 years. I am a quiet, patient, 60 year old, grandmotherly woman. I'm one of many "invisible" pot smokers. I work in special education with the kids no one else will take on. I am quite artistic (I quilt, write, paint, sculpt in wood and clay, and hit the link in my sig for my latest project- not art, but quite a piece of work, never the less)! Most of my college papers were written while high and I graduated with honors! Lazy? No way in hell! Pot is a "mutable" high- you can toke and kick back OR you can toke and clean the house, create a work of art or whatever! Pot is what you make it! Don't blame the apathy on pot- place the blame where it belongs- on the individual!

"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."


And have you ever heard of anyone ask "Will I grow out of alcohol?" Alcohol is also a rite of passage for that"high school/college experimental phase"! Funny how no one considers alcohol use after college "aberrant"! Even though alcohol is addictive and potentially lethal in it's effects, our society accepts it's use as "normal adult behavior"! Pot, on the other hand, is considered a "dangerous", immature folly!

Well, I am certainly past the high school/college experimentation phase. I find it stimulates my creativity, makes tedious work (like housework) less of a chore, eases my migraines and arthritis, and makes my life better in so many other ways! - Granny:hippy: (every day toker)

[Matt the Funk]

PLENTY of successful people smoke weed. I know plenty of people personally.

[Bogart]

I'm here to tell you that my best friend and I smoke as much as we can, and we both work in careers that pay 45000.00/yr. Your hanging out with the wrong crowds if that's all your seeing. We even own our own homes and raising our children as single fathers.

[psteve]

I'm scared I won't grow ENOUGH, and I'll be out of pot!

[Zannies]

the "good pot smokers" you don't see a lot because you simply don't know they smoke.

[connector_robot]

My father was a stoner, and ended up going to Boston Uni, Oxford [he was there as a Rhoads Scholar], then Harvard. Now he lives comfortably in a multi-million dollar house. Another one of my freinds father, was a total stoner, and ended up going to Standford and Harvard, then became a major player in Goldman&Sacs. The stoners that end up with crappy jobs and no education, were just losers to start out with.

[psteve]

My father was a stoner, and ended up going to Boston Uni, Oxford [he was there as a Rhoads Scholar],

My father was also a stoned Rhodes scholar.

[connector_robot]

My father was also a stoned Rhodes scholar.

Hah, interesting. I'll ask some of his R.S buddies if they were.

[JD1stTimer]

Here's one thing, at least in the US. It's very discriminated against, so if people know you smoke, guess what? Your job opportunities dry up. Also, those people who are freewheeling and open about their behavior are more likely to get caught, which means they get no federal financial aid. Then there's the piss tests for jobs, and when you're already working for a company. You toke, you don't get the job, you don't get promoted, you get fired and the next one you interview with calls up your old boss and the old boss says "Yeah, he was one of those dirty hippie stoners" and then you don't get another job except at McChronalds. (So named because the people working there who aren't undocumented workers are there because they are stoners.) IOW, the self-employed, the people who got through school before our stupid laws about losing funding got passed, the independently wealthy, and the trust fund babies are the ones who can toke and have the good life. I see it as partially a discrimination problem, and also self-programming with your own stereotype. (Like some kids I know who wear saggy pants and pretend they can't read because it's so white. Not to be racist, but I work primarily with disadvantaged youth and it really is a significant percent. Not majority, but the faction is there.)