Smoking Weed Takes Away Your Dreams

That might sound like a cheesy line from an anti-drug commercial, but smoking weed really does remove your ambitions.

Anyone who gets hooked on pot will tell you the same story. They used to have a real goal in life, a career that they wanted to pursue, or some other dream that they wished to attain. But if they get caught up in the lifestyle of being stoned every day, those dreams simply fade to the background. Some people will quit smoking weed at this point but others will be seduced by the lifestyle of getting high. It doesn't seem like a huge deal at the time because the person is so wrapped up in the new lifestyle of getting high every day.

In fact, it is the lifestyle that hooks people. It is the camaraderie that you get from smoking weed with other people that really gets people addicted. Weed is not a very physically addictive drug and some would argue that it as zero potential for physical addiction. But this doesn't really matter as the drug will still steal your ambitions from you as you slowly give up on all of your dreams.

Getting high with your friends becomes the most important thing in your life. So it is not like weed devastates your life the way alcohol or crack cocaine can devastate your life. But in some ways it is more insidious than those "harder" drugs because it seems so innocent. It's just weed, right? Well before you know it, you'll be looking back at the last 20 years of your life and wondering why you never became a veterinarian like you always wanted to be.

Weed steals your dreams.