I don't think weed and caffeine are equivalent. One is a downer and the other a stimulant. You might get jitters with too much caffeine but that's not the same as being baked productivity wise. Sure you don't have to be productive 24/7 but chances are if you're lit at 7am, you're not being productive even when you sober up, and you'll just keep smoking.
In regards to "functional potheads", I've met a few in my life and without exception they greatly overstate their ability to function. Almost all addicts claim they're functional. Plus it can lead to psychological effects.
I think you should be able to put most things in your body. But I can still have an opinion whether it's good for you or society if people engage in this behavior. Not everything I think is bad should have a law against it.
I've met some functional potheads and I legitimately cannot tell when they're high, even after they smoke a lot. Their tolerance is so unbelievably high that smoking does very little to them. They manage to function in life because they're typically not-really-that-high along with having careers that are just not cognitively difficult, at all. One does sort of data entry stuff, stuff they've done for years without much change in their work. They also do sort of simple wix website development stuff. I know another that just works the floors at Target.
Why do they smoke if it doesn't affect them? Is it just at this point they feel terrible if they don't? Is it worth just going through detox so you're not dependent for the rest of your life?
It does something, just not a lot. I think many/most weed smokers can quit cold turkey without many or any physical problems. Even very high tolerance smokers can still get pretty high, they just have to use tons of weed/high density forms of ingestion
Source on weed being a "downer"? I think this is just your personal bias on weed and how it makes YOU feel. Weed doesn't slow heart rate or respiration like proper downers. The effects are almost always in the eye of the beholder. Being un productive or "baked" is not a given.
I don't think weed and caffeine are equivalent. One is a downer and the other a stimulant. You might get jitters with too much caffeine but that's not the same as being baked productivity wise. Sure you don't have to be productive 24/7 but chances are if you're lit at 7am, you're not being productive even when you sober up, and you'll just keep smoking.
In regards to "functional potheads", I've met a few in my life and without exception they greatly overstate their ability to function. Almost all addicts claim they're functional. Plus it can lead to psychological effects.
I think you should be able to put most things in your body. But I can still have an opinion whether it's good for you or society if people engage in this behavior. Not everything I think is bad should have a law against it.