I believe in not interfering in other people's lives because when you do, you alter their future. I smoked pot from the age of 16 until 50. I smoked it everyday if I could along with my girlfriends and then the girlfriend my wife and I shared for most of our marriage. I am very happily married for almost 45 years. I have been very successful in business despite my recreational use of marijuana. I smoked less than most men and women drink. Kind of hypocritical for a mother drinking wine all night or a dad having a few cocktails after work, to tell their son not to smoke pot. Never saw a fight with guys who smoked, but plenty of fights and illegal stuff from drunks. I also have an IQ that puts me in the top 1% of the population, got a college scholarship, excelled in football and baseball, and became one of the two top experts in my field worldwide. Even worked as an Alternate U.N. advisor and co-authored a reference book that is still the main source of information for that profession. Pot did not make me into a stoner who did nothing but smoke all day and make nothing of his life. In fact, all of my friends and couples we hung out with smoked weed. They are doctors, lawyers, chemist, CEO's, business owners and other professional people. Smoking weed was used the same way that alcohol is used in social situations. Plus it made sex very intense.
When I quit weed at age 50 I had to go back on the four medications that I was taking before I started smoking weed. The purpose of all of this is for you to think how different my life would have been if someone narc'd on me and it caused distrust with my parents and altered the course of my life. I would not have met my pot smoking friends, even the business ones that gave me business. I would not have met my wife of 44 years nor most of the girls I had sex with. I would not have left home at 18 so that I could smoke and have sex whenever I wanted to and ended up like many guys today living with their parents until they are close to 30. I can name a lot of things that would have been different had I not been a pot smoker. I love the life I have and marijuana did not have a negative impact on my life. I even did Cocaine, LSD, crack and smoked Opium and Heroin. I did not do these drugs all the time of course because I did work 10-12 hours a day and had to travel to 21 counties for business. I just like to try things for the experience. I never got hooked on anything and when I quit drugs, all that happened was a few days of poor sleep. That was it plus I had to go back on the medications I was taking for PTSD.
My whole life would have been different if someone like you turned me into my parents. I would have had all different friends, seen the world differently, kept attacking my wife during my sleep thinking she was the enemy after returning from combat, chronic insomnia. anxiety, stress and a few other things that pot kept in check. My first job was due to a fellow pot smoking friend telling me about a job opening in his company. He would not have been my friend since I only made friends with pot smokers.
When I look back on my life I realize that it was both the good and bad things that happened to me that put me where I am today. If my ex fiance did not cheat on me I would have had a lousy life because she is now married to a woman, is bipolar and hears angels talking to her. She now owns a business with her wife. She would not have been OK with moving 13 times for my career since she had her own. Had not one employer gone out of business, I would not have found the job that catapulted me into the spotlight. It is like the butterfly effect where even a small change alters the future. I do not meddle in other people's lives because doing so can ruin their life, all because they are doing something that I do not do or like.