Stilleto Stoners

FINALLY- the blog everyone in class is waiting for me to write about (especially the professor). As you've guessed, I definitely have the schema to relate to this article. This is the way I see it: After a hard day of work, some people like smoking a cigarrette, and some like having a beer or a glass of wine. Besides the law, what is the difference in these rituals as opposed to smoking a bowl or a joint of marijuana. It is all done for the same reason- to calm some nerves and feel better. There is a very common misconception (just to keep kids away from it) that smoking weed causes one to be lazy and therefore cannot succeed in life (like the retarded commercials on T.V.). Just becuase someone smokes some greenery doesn't make them losers. There are two kinds of stoners in this world- aesthetic stoners and addicted stoners. The addicted stoners are the ones that let pot run their lives. They smoke when they wake up, before work, during work, after work, before dinner, and before they go to sleep. They can't make a decision unless they are high. They are angry without it. These are the ones I would personally call losers. I have plenty of friends that are these type of stoners- most of these guys live paycheck to paycheck and I've referred to them as "pathetic" sometimes. The women in the article are obviously aesthetic stoners. Weed doesn't run their lives- it's just a bonus at the end of the day. I know a teacher that is very effective and successful- but he enjoys a hit of chronic at the end of the day just as much as the next person. He doesn't share this with anyone, nor does he condone it to anyone. This is what he does. This is his personal life. This brings me to my last point. In the classroom, the teacher should be the best damn teacher he or she can be. Outside the classroom, teachers have different ways exhaling and releasing. This is nobody's business- as long as it's not interfering with anybody's life, who cares what they do? People that make such a big deal about pot are people that have never been exposed to it, and they have nothing better to do than criticize sometimes. What they need to do, honestly, is take a hit and shut the hell up!