uncanny474 said:
Imp Emissary said:
As for the pot thing, that's one of the few good arguments against pot that I've heard.
Not enough to say it should be illegal while we can still go ape on shit like alcohol and cigarettes (so long as you're old enough), but that's a whole other thing.
I mean, the usual mind-blank of choice for most shut-ins I know is booze, not pot. You black out instead of just getting high, it's legal to anyone 21 or over, so it's easy to get a hold of, and as far as I know, it's easier to maintain drunkenness than a high.
What I meant was more that pot is used as a tool to help people avoid things (such as thinking about their problems or more importantly, facing them). Being used by shut-ins or not, that is bad.
I brought up alcohol and cigarettes because these are also used to avoid/alleviate stress (a lot of the time to the point of abuse), but are honestly more harmful to you than pot, yet still legal.
To sum it up, abusing pot to escape your problems is bad, but it is comparably less damaging than using other more legal substances.