[TheRealVille]

How many extremely successful people have you ever heard give credit to smoking weed? Granted, there are plenty of young athletes, entertainers, and other celebrities who obviously are successful financially despite abusing all sorts of drugs, but how many people in professions that require brainpower are regular drug users? In contrast to most people who do not smoke marijuana, my guess is that most smokers would quit work if they could. Chronic drug users tend to have trouble focusing and holding down good jobs long term.

Most marijuana smokers who I have known gradually kicked the habit after they got out of college. Smoking the stuff just does not do anything to contribute to one's success in life. I admit that there are exceptions, but I would be shocked if the average marijuana smoker is not much less successful in life at the same age as their non-toking counterparts are.

Unemployed marijuana smokers are probably less stressed and happier than unemployed non-smokers, but stress is not always a bad thing. It can be a very powerful motivator and alcohol and dope tend to counteract a person's natural motivation to work and meet their family and financial obligations. However, if people can smoke marijuana, follow the law, and be good citizens, then I have no problem with whatever they want to do to their own body and mind.

You would be very surprised by how many successful people that smoke pot. I know several doctors and lawyers that smoke. They don't give pot the credit because pot doesn't make you successful, but done right, it doesn't hinder it either. BTW, props for doing the usual spin, "How many extremely successful people have you ever heard give credit to smoking weed?"