kpmarine
Well-Known Member
Sounds just like my neighbor. He can't get a job because of his record. He grows outdoor every year, the wife works full time. He spends all day at school helping the teacher in his youngest son's class. He loves being able to do all that stuff you're talking about. All of his kids are some of the most respectful and awesome kids I've met. He managed to strike that perfect balance of friend and disciplinarian that most parents seem to seek. Just goes to show that felons who grow and smoke pot aren't the bad people society paints them as.I tell my boy the same thing. Whatever the issue, people's attitude seems to be, 'Is this going to affect my next paycheck?' If the answer is no, people really don't give a fuck. Ultimately, I'm glad that events unfolded the way they have: I get to work from home, grow awesome dank (through which I can make more money than that trading job), get to attend all my boy's mid-day school performances and activities (I'm often the only father in attendance), play mid-day tennis with some self-employed buddies, and nap when I need to. I wouldn't be able to do most of these things if still trapped in the corporate rat race...
Sadly, people don't seem to be able to see the other side of the issue. With drug testing, they see people on a bad trip not going on a forklift rampage. With gun control, they see criminals not having guns. With "gay marriage" being prevented, they see the "sanctity of marriage" being saved. The problem is nobody looks at the other side of it. They don't see the guy who lost his house because he smoked weed when he wasn't working; the criminal who has a gun, and the innocent who is now unarmed; the gay couple that is denied the same legal rights as a married couple. If we actually looked at laws and asked ourselves "Is this crime encroaching on someone else's life, liberty, or happiness in a way that requires regulation?", and then threw out all the laws that punished actions that didn't do these things; we would have a few less convicts and unemployable felons in this world.