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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
That's a good point, I feel, about the drug culture encouraging people to be takers rather than givers in a society. The U.S. certainly has a LOT of complaints from people as it is about those who exploit the welfare system to get something while doing nothing. It is a type of stealing, and I assume much less common than people here claim. But it certainly happens.
So, that's an interesting perspective in the article, which I *tried* to read. I'd say drugs epitomize taking rather than giving. When you use drugs like marijuana, you take your mind away from yourself, you take yourself away from others, and you incapacitate yourself so that you can't function as well.
But mostly, all I can think of right now, seeing as you're back, is...
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Ugh...I wasn't going to respond to this thread but I had to say something. Drugs have nothing to do with giving and taking. I do agree with the subculture bit, but as CA put it, feeling like an outsider breeds resentment towards the main culture. That particular subculture may be more about taking from their society as a whole, but I promise you they are all about giving within the subculture itself.
Marijuana is what you make it. I am in a band, work 40 hours a week, am about to start school again to earn my PhD, and try to participate in any philanthropies that pique my interest. I do all this and I smoke all the damn time. If anything, it has helped many of the issues I used to have. However, it is completely possible to be a lazy bum pothead type of person. I've met those, too. Then again, I have met plenty of lazy bum types who don't smoke at all. It's all about the type of person you are.
I promise you, tore, if you started smoking one day you wouldn't up and quit work and start living under a bridge. Chances are, you will continue with your life just as you always have.
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