Comments on: Successful Pot Smokers: Let’s Make a List

By: Truth

Truth — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:22:51 +0000

I have a friend who is a Massage Therapist at a very upscale spa, and does about 20-30 massages a week and makes great money. He smokes everyday even while seeing his clients and his clients loves his massage. He was stoned every second while in school. Still graduated and passed his National. Oh and MJ helps his pain from a long day of work. He says all his soreness and pain goes away. Feels brand new in the morning. Also helps with stress. It does make the world more peaceful. If everyone were stoned, this world would be much more peaceful. No violence. No dwi. People even drive better when they are hi. Legalize it o bama ass.

By: aswepay

aswepay — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:26:11 +0000

As we say in Psychology, there is more variation within than between. In other words, there are sober couch potatoes as well as stoned ones, sober millionaires as well as stoned ones. It is drug ABUSE that the focus should be on, specifically on drugs which flood the myriad reward centers in the brain (opiates and stimulants, mainly) instead of mimicking neurotransmitters like cannabinoids (and the true psychedelics).

Also: best friend growing up – now owns patent on revolutionary (and well-duh-simple) technique for annealing (thinning/strengthening in one process) most types of industrial wire at speeds an order of magnitude greater than present techniques. All his development work is done high, in order to help him manage OCD symptoms. He uses a pocket vaporizer most of the time.

By: The Desert Lamp » Campus National/International » Have you talked to your parents about the war on marijuana?

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:42:13 +0000

[...] You should also tell them that while some users may grow up to be burrito tasters, potheads have grown up and had other jobs as well: entrepreneurs, professional basketball players, scientists, jazz legends, public policy gurus, Olympians, Newberry medalists, teachers, and presidents of the United States of America, among other professions. (HT: Radley Balko) [...]

By: lol

lol — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:22:06 +0000

im a sales associatein the pharmaceutical industry and i make a very comfortable living and i smoke everyday after work and i can still manage to make alot of money and im only 20 and i make more then grown ups and still smoke weed everyday and all day on the weekends

By: Jackson Cruz

Jackson Cruz — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:24:37 +0000

i was listening to a podcast called fatguyradioshow. i know the name is different, but the host on that show did a segment about the AZ legalization of pot i thought has some great introspective. i wanted to share. they talked about it after their little musical break. the host made some good points.

By: Aaron Klock

Aaron Klock — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:26:23 +0000

I’m a sucessful potsmoker. I’m a chef, went to school for 4 years, and smoke pot all day every day. It helps with pain, anxiety, depression etc… Nothing wrong with it

By: Gwen

Gwen — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 01:08:17 +0000

Daily smoker, use like coffee. Not to get high, but for the kick. 50+ years old, very successful

By: j. cummings

j. cummings — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 01:47:13 +0000

I teach third grade and won teacher of the year for my county last year. An average work day for me is 10 hours. When I get home, I like to wind down with a bowl. Haven’t noticed any negative effects in my 7 year career.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 04:22:08 +0000

Its funny I recently retired from the United States Marine Corps after 22 years….I smoked throughout that entire time and never got caught….i was lucky, definitly,Being a smoker and being on active duty….my job performance never suffered…i was meritoriusly promoted several times…awarded for valor in combat in Iraq…
My point is, is our society has been force fed propaganda about how terrible cannabis is….and it just is not. Now that Im retired I continue to smoke and cultivate all while waiting on my hard earned gov checks…

By: bblbbbllb

bblbbbllb — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 01:24:29 +0000

I’ve been smoking skunk, regularly, since i was 15. I am now 29, and teaching English Literature at a college in London. I usually smoke everyday, about 6 spliffs a day. I find that smoking weed is a necessity in my line of work, and has absolutely no effect on my teaching abilities, although; it does make me stink of it every time I go in the classroom…

As for successful tokers, how bout’ Richard Branson.
He owns Virgin.
I you don’t know who he is, look him up…

By: Orange

Orange — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:24:36 +0000

I was using it till I was 20, then I became a monk and stopped for nearly 12 yrs and was doing fine without it.
Last 8 yrs I had a bad marriage, divorced, started playing guitar again and taking pot (mostly vaporizer).
From that point my life changed 180 degrees to a better one.
I’ve healed my long lasting disease, changed my career and become amazingly successful. I am not saying this is all because of pot, but one thing is sure, taking pot does not ruin your life or your health.
I’d recommend vaporizer coz it’s healthy.

Also, I agree with Odie, it is not what you’re using, but why you’re using it.
So, careful with your intentions and motives….

By: Odie

Odie — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:05:55 +0000

My ma did plenty of smoking and other stuff when she were young and she’s a doctor and having been to many doctors myself i can say she is the best diagnostician i have ever come across or even heard of, on the flip side my dad was also well educated, also did lots of drugs and he is now a total failure in all aspects of his life. They had very different upbringings this tells me that drugs are not what destroys peoples lives, it’s the reasons behind why we take drugs that can damage us.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:37:10 +0000

I was valedictorian of my high school, near perfect sat-scores, and currently attend an Ivy league school. I smoked on a weekly basis my senior year of high school up until now.

By: wellbalanced

wellbalanced — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:55:37 +0000

DEA JUDGE: “Marijuana is the safest therapeutically active substance known to mankind.”

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:07:30 +0000

I smoke weed everyday. I have a job. I have a better life then the person that wrote this article.. I guarantee it. Because I have a life. And I don’t have time to write a article full of BuLlshit!!

By: K

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:08:19 +0000

I like how this is against potheads, but it shows all the successful potheads. Nice article. Potheads – they’re everywhere! We’re driving next to you, we’re in the cubicle next to you, we’re lighting up in the stall next to you. Fear us.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:10:49 +0000

Sarah Palin!?!?!?! are you kidding me? try doing better research instead of a “quick google search” That’s why she came up you idiot.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:46:00 +0000

I smoke pot and I’m attending to more successful things than writing a bullshit article like this.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:18:47 +0000

how about nearly every successful rock, jazz, reggae, soul, hip hop, and r&b artist ever. EVER

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:07:02 +0000

The government is totally backwards, instead they legalized a more dangerous drug, ALCOHOL. I’ve never heard of any pot smoker being violent or killed someone while driving like in the case of people drinking alcohol.

I work as a Quality Assureance Manager. I don’t agree obviously with be high at the workplace just like alcohol at work it shouldn’t be allowed. But, once you go home it’s different. My routine consist of once I get home is take a shower, clean house, relax, smoke one and get ready for the next day of work. Marijuana and being irresponsible are 2 different things. I lead a wonderful fulfilling life now, but it wasn’t always like this.

When I was younger I was arrested many times for possesion of marijuana. The cops excuse is always the same. “We are looking for guns and drugs.” Right!! They say that “Me purchasing from a drug dealer puts more guns on the streets.” Right!!…. Solution, Simply legalize and tax government marijuana. I’d much rather buy from the government than off the streets, where I’m insured a good quality product. If you want to stop reduce crime. Legalize it!!! During prohibition after the legalitation of alcohol all the mobsters went broke. Mobster could no longer profit of alcohol. Once these mafias see that they can no longer profit off marijuana, they will go somewhere else. It’s that simple.

Being arrested for marijuana is a big problem in the U.S. For someone with a weaker mind set all those fines, court cost, drug classes, incarceration, probations and other hoops the government makes you jump thru, would probably ruin thier life, and simply because the government has fabricated stories that marijuana ruins lives. But, what they fail to mention is that people are being destroyed not by marijuana. but by the Laws imposed by the government. By the time your done jumping thru there hoops your probably in ruin. One study on a gov website claims that “Marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life or make a person’s existing problems worse.” Quote from ‘http://www.drugabuse.gov/about/AboutNIDA.html.‘ However they probably fail to mention that patient probably suffers from depression, erectile disfunction, or any number of non-marijuana related issues that can cause you to lose self-worth or self-esteem.

I smoke, but I lead a healthy life style including eating right, excercising and so on. If your smoking marijuana and you lead a healthy life style there should be no reason to, as they claim, cause problems in daily life or make a person’s existing problems worse. Its simply Excersise, Eat healthy and live a healthy life-style. Marijuana doesn’t ruin lives, the governments unexamined laws of prohibition of marijuana does.

Marijuana has enriched my life. I no longer suffer from anxiety, sleepless nights, back pains, apetite. It’s already been proven that marijuana helps fight & in some types cure cancer, prevents alzheimer’s & also does not increase the risk of developing lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (Reference Quote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis) among people who do not smoke tobacco. So that’s a list full a diseases I won’t have to worry about.

Plus here’s a list of new break-thru cures, thanks to new on going marijuana research.
Refer to http://www.letfreedomgrow.com/index_se_cmu.htm
Thanks to the American Alliance for medical canibus.