oh for sure, but we see that with alcohol too - to a greater degree I would say. I don't know of any cannabis users living under a bridge for instance. Don't know there are many cannabis bums out there, when I am sure there are major alcohol bums out there.
You can't really compare deaths to wasted potential or whatever you are talking about. I would say the unending pursuit of material wealth is a wasted life - so a job can be just as bad as a cannabis habit in my crazy opinion.
cannabis can be a vice for sure. Its my vice for damn sure. I wouldn't say that means I have no money, i am in a net savings mode and regularly invest in CGC. Maybe I don't 'make' that much money, but it just so happens the government has programs for that......so it is not a big deal that I don't work, just so long as YOU (the public) keep working, then we are all good.
Anyways, I have two jobs right now. I work for my wife and her parents - racking up good hours and decent pay, not my fault they are planning to lay me off AGAIN.....I don't make the rules in Canada, I can't vote, I work they make me pay insurance premiums - I say it is a sucker bet for the government to make, but place your bets and I will place mine