Quote Originally Posted by Stellar
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Simply smoking pot gave me a burn-out label, long ago.

I might be the only one in the room that went to college, knows how to grow one of the easiest plants on planet earth, a plant, which, in all of their brilliance, they have killed countless specimens of, the only one that can play a musical instrument, the only one that can use a computer, or the only one that can divide by fractions in the whole fucking room of jackasses, and I'll still get called a burn out by them, because I smoke weed and they don't, or did smoke weed when we were all in school and they didn't, or because I actually did something besides sit on their couch with them while I got high...

Just saying the word calyx around some of them and they think I'm fucken making up words left and right.

So, whatever. I've got almost 10 years of stereotypical banter from people who resigned themselves to amounting to barely affording their apartment, and its still going strong. I want to live in one of these happy-tale worlds, where people see you for what you've done instead of calling you whatever the D.A.R.E. guy told them in school.

I am captain responsible to a T, but, ask anyone that knows me from school or in passing, and I'm a burnout.

I never got anything but prejudice. While I actually did shit, got a degree, made some decent scratch off of being in a band, grew pounds, hiked mountains everyday for the kick of being able to, these people resigned themselves to marrying eachother straight out of highschool while their health deteriorates from living off of cheetohs, and I'm still a burnout, according to these wonderfull people.

I mean, it would be nice to think that being responsible would help us shake this shit off of us, but I've got about 10 years of proof that people that don't smoke pot think we're losing braincells faster than they are at their liquor binge fests. Then, you got he dumbass shit-attitude stoners that still live in their parents' toolsheds that do nothing to improve their situation but bitch about how life sucks, and even they think you're a damned burnout because you smoke bud.

I am very afraid that we'll never win this battle. They still spend millions of dollars on anti marijuana commercials during a time of extreme defecits, even. That should be a sign of shit not changing this century. I accepted it long ago and I just laugh at the ignorance of people who judge you at face value for the spliff in your hand. I just don;t think most or any of this stigma will be erased for many, many... until the world blows up.

Good luck in life to them is all you can really say about it.
I enjoyed reading that it reassures my theory that we are not
all brain dead zombies, that act as if we are characters in some
movie based around marijuana.
Yes the people that pass judgment on an individual that decide
to use cannabis are standing in there living room with some brainwashing
television show on a cigarette in one hand and a martini in the
other. More than likely having a bad prescription drug habit to
boot.
God for bid someone smokes pot though. They might go crazy and
rob some old lady for her church collection money to support their
reefer habit.
yabatab Reviewed by yabatab on . "Pot" this is one of those threads that you will either understand completely, or not at all. i have always put bad connotations on the word "pot". nowadays when somebody who is ignorant and against marijuana, they usually refer to it as pot. on anti marijuana commercials and websites, they always use that word, and now i never use it and neither do my friends. whenever someone says "pot" i get a strong urge to correct them. tell them to say weed or marijuana or something. i would never take offense Rating: 5