How Pot Smoking Can Ruin Lives

This article isn't filled with medical facts and scientific information on how marijuana affects the brain and body, and doesn't contain my opinion on whether or not it should be legalized, but it is an account of how pot can ruin lives. I was once married to someone who began smoking marijuana as a teen, and this is my account of how pot can ruin the lives of friends, family, and the smokers themselves.

I admit that I made a serious mistake when I married someone who was a pot smoker, but at age 19, I thought I could change the man and mold him into the person I wanted him to be. He had special characteristics, or I wouldn't have been with him in the first place. His life was different than what I was accustomed to, and at the time, it was interesting and exciting to be with someone who was a little on the wild side. In the end, without going into details, my family found out about his pot smoking habit in the worst way imaginable, and afterwards, my life as well as his spiraled completely out of control.

Justification

I remember hearing my ex husband's friends and his older brothers attempting to justify smoking pot. They knew I was against it. I knew they were wrong, but there was no way to convince people who smoked it regularly. I tried to choose all of the right words to plead my case, but those words were never really heard. They made excuse after excuse, and they said the so-called experts were wrong when they claimed that pot was harmful. I also knew why they made the excuses they did. They smoked pot on a regular basis, and it was obvious they were trying to justify their drug of choice.

Losing it All