Early Cannabis Use And Extended Adolescent Behaviors?

Well, all I know is, whatever I desire to do today can easily be undesirable the moment I spark my water pipe.

So I wouldn't be at all surprised if that rang the bells of truth because for me personally, I've been less inclined to do anything with my life since I started habitually smoking. Granted I don't /need/ to do anything, but still.. >.>

 

Quote from the article

"... then there’s that laugh, that anxious chuckle that has come to be the stereotype of the young cannabis user."

This guy is obviously prejudiced.

 

Muhahaha

 

I started smoking at early twenties. I wasn't too influenced by my peers to start any younger than that though I could have easily, at the time my grades in school and my future career were more important. The moment I finished my studies and graduated from uni with my passes, I guess that's when I let my hair down and I "lived" a little.

 

Young people seem to be maturing more slowly these days, regardless of drug use. I think part of it is that the expectations used to be much higher.

 

Yeah seems the younger generations (overall) have a lot more luxury in pretty much everything. They often have so much choice and freedom where it comes to what they wanna do in life (or are at least are taught they have) it is no suprise some don't make any haste at all
When taking in account all things it seems not restricted to potsmokers (but they seem to represent a fair amount of these youngsters and adults who started smoking as a teen. A majority though? Not so sure. Could be fiftyfifty).
I also know many hardworking and independent people that smoke(d) pot extensively in their teen years and later.

 

The author seems to be forgetting major factors like the economy, the availability of jobs, the availability of jobs that pay enough to make a living, the cripling rise of college costs, and many other very important factors. I started using cannabis regularly at age 13. I am now 29. In the intervening years I earned two degrees in scientific disciplines from accredited universities. I also became a licensed auto insurance adjuster. I am now a software developer and I do work for state universities and the Department of Health in my state. After I earned my first degree I had to move back in with my parents because the 3 jobs that I was working, for a total of about 60 hours per week, did not pay enough to cover student loans and all of the other costs of living alone. When my father moved out of his parents house in the early 1970's he was able to, literally, walk into any factory in town and get a job that day that would pay a living wage, with no college degree. It's a different world, and the author is either a fool, or is intentionally ignoring that for the purpose of trash talking pot smokers (who are more productive than habitual drinkers anyway).

 

In college I knew some lazy, unmotivated stoners who did poorly in class, but that doesn't prove any kind of a cause / effect relationship. Maybe it was their pre-existing flaws that led them to smoke too much when they should have been studying. Maybe not. More studies are probably needed, because weed in general hasn't been studied anywhere near as much as tobacco use. In some ways, weed seems too good to be for real. There has to be a second side to every story.

My old friends and I were weekend drug users who did our work during the week. We all turned out okay, as far as I can tell.

 

My ex-husband still does this to this day and he hasn't smoked weed in over 30 years. It's not alcohol, either. It's his personality.

Did he develop "the laugh" during all those stoned teen years and never abandon it?

Who knows?

 

Does it sound like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OvMZT2zfy0

C/S,
Rev J

 

Yep. He worked for my dad and when dad would try to chew him out for something at work, he'd laugh like that. I can remember my mom and dad telling me that I had to get him to stop laughing like that or he was going to get fired.

I lol'd.

 

^^^LOL

It's when they start acting like this is when they need to begin addressing their caffeine and sugar habits though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDdCSKO3RgM

 

When my son was a teenager, he had a little firebug friend. The dude was really smoked up one day and sprayed a can of insect repellent into a burning barrel. It burned his eyebrows off and he had to sneak into the house, past his mom. He decided to pull his shirt over his head and play The Great Cornholio to get past her.

Off course that only worked once. I don't know what the boy ever told her happened to his damn eyebrows.

 

Now that this thread has been hijacked. I just recently realized the older I get the more I appreciate Beavis and Butthead as social satire. It takes a certain amount of balls to mock military recruitment, video games, and even the network that put them on.

C/S,
Rev J

 

Hmm this can explain some of my alien ways of being

 

No! Don't say that!! It's not the weeds fault.

 

I think the article feels a little bit biased about cannabis use in general, but I think that 18 or 21 are two appropriate ages for people to begin using cannabis.