It's Just Marijuana...

For many people, with recent legal changes, marijuana is not something considered to be a problem.  After all, when was the last time someone was rushed to the ER for a pot overdose?  And when did someone ever steal a car to pay for marijuana?

Is it less dangerous than heroin, cocaine or meth?  There can be no doubt.  But that does not mean that there is no danger, or that it isn't harmful.  After all, alcohol is legal and there are something like 90,000 alcohol-related deaths per year in the USA.

The people I have known in my life who have had problems with marijuana were people who worked jobs they hated, lived in homes they really didn't like and spent most of their time and money getting high.  The danger is not as acute, but the danger of a life lived as meaningless, endured rather than enjoyed, is spiritual cancer.  Never mind the danger of inhaling things into one's lungs, the ongoing and cumulative effects on brain health and growth and that past clients have educated me that marijuana sometimes contains fentanyl.  

A life worth living saves us money and helps us spend it on meaning and significance, not on just getting by.  I want more for you than just getting by: I want a life free from anxiety, distraction and pain; an empowered life lived to the full.  It doesn't take a needle full of heroin to ruin a life.  Like T.S. Elliot said, sometimes the world ends not with a bang - but a whimper.