On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:21:15 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>> "Nexis" > wrote in :
>>
>> > Many of these people do turn to drugs and
>> > alcohol to numb the pain, and it's not very hard to believe, or
>> > understand.
>>
>> It is for some who only consider the expense.
>
>Doing drugs has a lot more to do with being cool and fitting in than with
>some need to forget. Just like alcohol, the number one favourite drug in
>North Americium, some people get into the habit. Many others do not. If pot
>were legal most people would probably rather smoke that than the more
>addictive drugs.
>
that's hard to say. assuming the use of any intoxicant, some people
are garbageheads, who will take almost anything (to the point of
swallowing unknown pills), and some are very loyal to their drug of
choice, eschewing others and looking down on those who use them.

on a related note, consider caffeine. many users of that drug look
down on pot-smokers and the like, but view groups like the mormons who
refrain from caffeine as ineffably weird.

your pal,
blake