I am 57 years old, and I don't remember smoking grass, or doing drugs were so out in the open. So, why do people smoke grass, and do drugs? Why can't they just enjoy life, and make the best of life? I am truly serious I don't understand why people do drugs.
2006-11-05 11:19:22 · 24 answers · asked by Lynn M 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I am 53 and I went through the drug scene growing up and to be honest with you I enjoy being sober. Life is so grand that you don't need the artificial highs to enjoy it. I get high when I see my children and my grandchildren. I catch a buzz when I read my Bible and go to church. I get happy when I am just with my wife watching television or talking to one another. There is life after drugs and alcohol. I regret the times that I have missed by being high, I will never get those years back, but I do not dwell on it and just go forward.
2006-11-05 15:33:58 · answer #1 · answered by morris 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I graduated from high school in 1978. In those days it seemed that everybody smoked pot. I partied with jocks, nerds, greasers, and burn-outs. I also partied with a car salesman (during a test drive), a teacher (not mine), and a cop (off duty). It was all out in the open then, we thought that it would be legal by now, but along came the war on drugs. Getting high on pot is not much different than drinking alcohol. Light headedness, everything seems humorous, and lowering inhibitions. Driving when high is different than driving drunk because I have never known anybody high who started driving too fast, rather they ended up going slower than the speed limit. I have known alcoholics, but I never knew one person addicted to marijuana. Is it possible? The government says so, but they also said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that there was a link between Iraq and terrorists. I chose not to trust what the government says. That's my right as an American.
2006-11-05 19:32:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well it can be because of curiosity. It's so out the open now because it's displayed as something cool, funny, or nothing to be ashamed of in today's society.
It also is because of the social ills that we are exposed to that we cannot cope with so easy so we resort to an escape.
By the way, I don't do drugs or smoke so don't take me saying "we" as me being one of the people who do these things. I'm saying "we" because I am speaking for my generation.
2006-11-05 19:23:58 · answer #3 · answered by meg (on Violet Hill) 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it is to escape their lives because they are so miserable but they do not realize especially if they become dependent on a drug that they are putting themselves in a position to get even more miserable when their lives fall apart because they start to do all sorts of things they would not normally do to get the drug. I am speaking from experience...not mine but my ex...and the drug being crack cocaine...never ever start!
2006-11-05 19:23:45 · answer #4 · answered by tigerlily_catmom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I Always thought drugs were an escape ..but when I see shows like intervention it scares me because so many people are so lost and have nothing and they escape through their drugs,,,they have family and friends but the drug is the power..that my friend scares the hell out of me...luv kara
2006-11-05 19:32:24 · answer #5 · answered by COOKIE 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It relieves stress. They have problems and drugs helps them forget about them. They think it's cool. Peer Pressure. Life Sucks. They don't care about their health. Find another world besides reality.
2006-11-05 19:25:23 · answer #6 · answered by Dweet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it saddens me to know there doing it, think they fall into a trap of sorts, start out as friends doing it for just fun, don't want to seem like a nerd or dork, then before they realize it, the drugs rule them, they say, they are always trying to reach that first "High":, which they can never achieve again
2006-11-05 19:27:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know why.The few times I have I felt like crap for days after wards and talking about stress....My heart would beat double time. They are running from life and missing out on everything. Makes no sense to me.
2006-11-05 19:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by ▒Яenée▒ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well my dear, i'm 35 and i don't get it either. I was talking to a 20 year old who's family i know, and he informed me his whole family indulge in pot. In front of the grandchildren even! I was shocked (he was telling the truth) and he couldn't understand why ,, he informed me - " everyone does it". And i informed him
EVERYONE, does not do it, just everyone he chooses to hang around with, and that's why they hang out, because they have that in common. Yep, i don't get it either.
2006-11-05 19:29:39 · answer #9 · answered by Skanky McSkankypants 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand either and I'm in my early mid-30's. Maybe they want to escape from their reality. Or it seems the in thing to do, like Kate Moss did.
2006-11-05 19:21:52 · answer #10 · answered by sen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋