ScruffyTheJanitor said:
Why buy weed when you can buy MUCH more beer?
..it's the opposite way around where I come from.
..I drink a glass of wine once in a while, or a beer. Sometimes I drink more than that. And think that's ok, because then at least you're hurting afterwards. It makes sense to me. But I don't do other drugs because the limit between recreational drug use, and dependency of the kind that's destructive for you.. is pretty much not existent. I just know too many people who genuinely believe that their drug-use doesn't affect how quick they are, or how smart they are, how intelligent they are, how stable they are, etc.
And they're all full of shit. Just like, say.. your uncle or your aunt who eat pain-killers they've had prescribed - they truly believe it doesn't affect them, most likely. But use the drugs to help themselves psychologically to "function in their daily life". It's the same mechanism, really, just it's not illegal.
Of course - why not use drugs if you enjoy it, can finance it, and work in a job at the same time, for a longer period of time..? You're not going to live forever. ..By the time you're sixty, you've been eating sprouts and jogged every day if you are not sick in some way or other so you'd depend on drugs to function anyway. *shrug*