International study reveals that marijuana users are more likely to be 'losers'

And yet adults don't do that..........

Lower your standards.

To say nothing of video game addiction! Many years ago, I was acquainted with somebody who quit his job so that he could spend every waking hour playing Everquest. Separately, one of my business partners once bemoaned that his son had given up on school to devote himself entirely to FPS games.

But I've never known anybody who deliberately dumped his job so that he could smoke marijuana all day. :-P

You can in some places. Las Vegas and New Orleans (French Quarter), for example

Doing a substance does not make you an addict. And what about all the drugs people use on a daily basis like coffee? Does that make most of America losers?

Most of the 1960s generation was a bunch of losers then.

Typical confusion between correlation and causation. In the mid 1990s, most of wall street brokers were on cocaine.

I'm all for the ending of drug prohibition, which extends even to hard drugs. That said, I personally do think there is some negative affect on intelligence/memory from smoking dope regularly. I don't really care though, I'd rather it be legal/decriminalized than throwing people in jail and causing all sorts of societal problems from the cost/damage from incarcerating masses of people.

The people I do know that are regular smokers are def in line with what the report found. I mean, I do know tons of people who casually do all sorts of drugs and are also extremely successful, but like any drug (including alcohol) moderation is the key.

Regardless of what anyone claims, the mandatory minimums in regards to the 10 to 1 ratio that they are applied to crack and powder form are directly correlated to race. Most drug laws in the US had racial oppression as their primary motive.

While "heroin" invented by Bayer and other forms of opium were not prohibited, smoking opium was. This was because of the "overwhelming" Asian American population who smoked opium could now be made criminals while most whites had other methods of consumption including the more addictive and potent Heroin that could be bought over-the-counter similar to buying a bottle of Aspirin today. Ironically, heroin was falsely marketed as a "non-addictive" form of opium with "less side effects". Class action lawsuits obviously weren't as prevalent back then.

Cocaine was prohibited because southern black Americans were "working too hard" while using it and putting white men out of jobs.

Cannabis was called "marijuana" by Mexicans. This name was adopted by politicians for the sole purpose of enabling its association with the drug as "Mexican", playing off of white America's displeasure in the mid-west as Mexican culture became more prevalent. Politicians even made claims to the tone of "Mexican's are crazy, and marijuana is what makes them crazy".

The actual reasons behind cannabis prohibition can be attributed to Du-Pont, and their patented synthetic fiber Nylon being threatened by the comparatively tensile natural fiber known as "hemp". By associating hemp directly with marijuana they effectively monopolized the market, much in the same way big oil advocated alcohol prohibition to deter automotive manufacturers from making "cleaner burning" combustion engines that would use ethanol as a fuel source.

Because at some point you realize that at some point our society has to eat the bullshit known as "The War on Drugs":

• Legalization means less people in jail for non-violent crimes. Rather than funding 4 walls and 3 square meals, tax money could provide better education.
• There would be more users, but addicts would not be relegated to the underground, would be more easily identified by their purchases, and not be receiving poisoned product
• The Cartels in Mexico would collapse
• The "coolness" and "rebel" nature of experimenting with drugs would not have any appeal
• Gangs have no incentive to kill over street corners
• Excise tax on drug purchases could be used to fund rehabilitation centers that wouldn't treat addicts like its some incurable disease, but rather a lack of self control

Yes, I realize that an entire generation would go nuts and people would tragically die for lacking self-control and the fact that schools don't properly educate the reality of drugs. Most of what schools teach is based on non-fact and is pure propaganda. Once people experiment with drugs and it doesn't hold up to what they've been taught they begin to reject and/or question other things they've been taught or lead to believe. In fact, displeasure with society could be a key contributing factor as to why marijuana users are allegedly "less successful" or "losers". Maybe they just stop giving a shit about contributing to society and paying tax dollars to teach propaganda.

The fact that marijuana is even held to the same standard as "hard drugs" makes it a gateway drug. The whole "gateway drug" theory doesn't exist in a world where marijuana is legal and does not require similar illegal means to acquire. Alcohol, is itself, a "hard drug" and makes a better culprit in terms of being a "gateway drug" by merit of its effects alone. It's also far easier to acquire marijuana in schools than it is to get a bottle of liquor. Laws don't stop shit from happening.

And let's not forget many people are already dying by drug related overdoses, drug related shootings, and that the "War on Drugs" is a literal war that oppresses millions of people.

no, not all the time. Still, shouldn't stop us from trying. And I do my drugs in moderation just fine....now. When I was taking legal, prescribed drugs, well, that's when things got out of control. I was on like three to four different meds.

I only use it for medical purposes because I am a chemo patient but I don't fall within this group of degenerates you speak of.

There are intelligent users than there are just losers. Losers tend to do attract this lifestyle of being a stoner.