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More likely that 50 years of depression and anxiety shaped his life, and he used marijuana to cope.

I'm sure the pot's a big part of it, but mom and dad should have kicked him out of their basement 48 years ago.

I don't doubt your word. I spent Christmas Eve last night at my Uncle's place. Guy is a millionaire. He also has cirrhosis of the liver as a result of pickling it with beer for the last 5 decades living as a functioning alcoholic. Inhaling smoke of any kind is a bad thing. Alcohol is a poison. The ideal things to put into your body is pure water, meat, fruit and vegetables. Of course very few people are going to do that and if laws were passed mandating it, rebellion against them would be off the charts.

Suppose alcohol were illegal. My Uncle probably would have gotten caught and sent to jail, fined, or had some kind of criminal record which would have hindered him in his life. Might not have been able to get a job or a start in life. Who knows. Could have been ruined.

I see it the same way with weed. Most people that mess with it probably are able to function. They are likely gonna pay a physical price at some point just like my Uncle is paying now. Spending gobs of taxpayer money trying to stop them and ruining there lives and creating criminal syndicates over a weed just seems more and more insane the more I think about it. I am about as far from a pothead as you can get but after much thought have concluded that prohibitions against it cause more problems than it itself does.

Simple fact of the matter is some people's physiology is wired for addiction. A certain percentage of them are gonna wind up useless drunks and potheads. Just like a certain percentage of people are going to use firearms to murder someone or commit suicide which is why well meaning useful idiots for the totalitarian commies want to ban them. Yes I went there.

There are a lot of things that may not be a good idea but prohibitions against them don't work if there is an entrenched demand for them. Its just like communism. That don't work either but people still insist on trying it.

What does work is liberty. Its messy as hell sometimes but it works.

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• creedmoor
• superchicken

Wanna see what 50 years of smoking dope will do for you, just look at Willie Nelson !

No, The dope started the ball rolling. I have a friend that is a psychiatrist and works in a large university as a counselor for students with problems. The majority of his work load is students just like the one in this original post. They were great students with a good future ahead of them, and then they started partying, smoking pot and drinking. Every one in this category started out making good grades and by the second year they were contemplating dropping out. He said the ones that only drank on occasion didn't have near the cognitive problems that the dope smokers had. Don't believe for a minute it doesn't hurt people. The new dope isn't the "giggle weed" from the 70s. It is a real potent drug these days.

That may be so but he’s got some money in the bank even after the IRS clipped him. I’d say he’s done exactly what he wanted to do in life. Humps and bumps, sure but who escapes those in life. He’s mid eighties and still on stage.

yep, and rolls around the country in a friggen motor home that's worth WAY more than my 7 acre RANCH here in the outnack of California. Probably worth more than the house, property, vehicles, tractor, outdoor gear, dog training equipment, chicken coop and chickens, and the firewood in the shed combined.

Let's not forget he generates revenue for all those members of his band, the roadies, and the promoters and the facilities he plays in, the motels that get concert attendees staying overnight because they live 300 miles from the show, restaurants, t shirt makers, etc.

All while he's stoned!

One guy living his life in a broken down home is not a good or bad example of anything. Neither is a millionaire musician.

Geno

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Agreed, but I’ve seen it before, star athlete, smart, handsome in HS,whole world appeared to be laid at their feet. And then when they take the next step, life gets harder. Perhaps for the first time in their life they have to really work at something

And it’s just too hard for some.

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Just think how hard life is for the straight dudes that don't escape in their drug of choice, and instead face life head on, stone cold sober, with no crutch or safety net. No trust fund, no inherited house, no sugar momma or daddy. Nothing but hard work standing between them and their families starvation. Oh, and yes, they support several people in better style than a drug addict can support himself alone.

Hard work! Oh the horror!

Yep.