Quote Originally Posted by psprowler View Post
It's all about choices. Marijuana is no more of a gateway drug than a tylenol suppository. Just because Nancy Reagan says it's bad doesn't automatically make it so. My dad busted me with a quarter bag during my 5th year of college. He told me I was going to end up like my uncle Mark. Well I smoked with my uncle Mark many times and he's now dead. His life wasn't the greatest, but that was his choice. When he busted me I had about a 3.9 GPA in one of the better schools of pharmacy at Purdue University. Now I'm surrounded by drugs every day - I could lift all the Oxycontin's and Opana's I want - IF I WANTED TO. There's simply no reason for me to do so. It's almost like "guns don't kill people........"
Some people can handle anything I guess. Others have addictive tendencies that they don't know they have until they take that first hit. It's too late for them. Some people can drink a beer and have no problems and others drink a beer and become alcoholics. I used to tell my daughter that life was about choices and that she could chose to do the right thing. I believed that until I saw her after 6 months and saw that she had lost so much weight. She was shriveling up. She had dark circles under her eye's and was taking alcohol, zanex, pot or meth every day. After all the years of me telling her to make the right choices in life, she looked at me and told me she couldn't help herself. She couldn't stop. At that point I knew that there is a line you cross where making the right choice is no longer an option. After picking up the pieces of my broken heart and wiping away my tears, I was on a mission to get my little girl some help. I've seen the worst that drugs have to offer and no one can convince me that they are nothing but evil. I teach my other kids to stay away from all drugs including alcohol. Dont even try it! Of course they saw what drugs did to their sister and what they did to our family. I don't think I will ever have to worry about them. Sorry about the long post and the strong passion I have about drugs, but this has been up close and personal for me. No one can convince me that it's not a big deal.