The last time I had a relatively calm discussion about drugs with a non-user, she glazed over and nodded every time I presented facts, then went back to: "Yeah, but there was this guy I went to school with, he's dead now. He did drugs."
I mean, there is no way to argue with that, anecdotal experience tainted by biased propaganda is no match for complicated factual information. It's a lot easier to just go back to the commonsensical: "He's a junky trying to justify it to himself".
This EXACT scenario happened to me on Friday (yesterday). Man I didn't know what to say after he told me the story of his friend who started out wiht mj, and 'look at him now'. And yeah, he said: "yup, you're always right. No one can ever prove you wrong."
Guess i'm just a junkie trying to justify my way out fo everything .
laff.
-kb