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by vectorpush 4784 days ago
You might as well have said "As entertainment, food is no worse or distracting than television."

Uh yeah, food is a very common form of entertainment; restaurants, cook-offs, eating contests... it's only when people go overboard that they begin to have a problem.

I'm tired of being too lazy to leave my apartment all weekend, of the food I eat when I'm stoned, of not being present around my friends, family and co-workers

These are all personal choices you made. If you really wanted to spend time with your friends and family you'd just do it. It sounds like you just can't be bothered but smoking pot gives you a convenient excuse to blow off social obligations. I mean jeeze, you're just so addicted to pot, how could you ever find the time to hang out with your friends?

I know, because I've been trying to quit all year. I've failed twice since February and I'm on my third go of it right now. And I only smoked a half-ounce a week for a year or so

Give me a break. Failing to quit pot is in the same category as failing to quit World of Warcraft, it ultimately comes down to the fact that you really just prefer to smoke.

needing to smoke when I wake up because it's so uncomfortable to be lucid.

I don't think pot is the problem.
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pekk 4784 days ago
Do psychoactive drugs affect behavior, or not? If they do affect behavior, then can we say that everything people under the influence do is simply their own choice? At least we must say that it is their choice under-the-influence, which might have been different.

Some people have an easy time quitting tobacco. Others don't. There are real differences in how the drug works on a person and fits into their life which aren't captured by phrases like 'you just can't be bothered'.

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vectorpush 4784 days ago
Do psychoactive drugs affect behavior, or not? If they do affect behavior, then can we say that everything people under the influence do is simply their own choice?

Caffeine is also a psychoactive drug, but overworked engineers don't blame coffee for 20 hour work days, instead, their coffee habit is understood as a supplement to their chosen lifestyle. Pot functions the same way for someone who decided to sit on the couch and play xbox all day; the pot didn't intoxicate him into playing video-games instead of going to class, if class was important to him he'd just go, stoned or otherwise.

edit: s/weeks/days

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