I used to be a sugar addict. When walk around the bakery in the supermarkets, my wife tells me: cancer of balls, breast cancer, diabetes, obesity and hairloss. It worked out for me.
The opiates and gabaergic drugs have the sort of abuse potential to be highly disruptive. Whatever makes them attractive for a coping mechanism is betrayal of mind. Find another outlet
Your narcissism is interesting. You seem to think that you should be the only person to think for anyone else. Even when sounding reasonable you dismiss agency in others.
meh. I used to be clever. Seriously. Top of my class when i put effort in. But then i did sht load of weed all in 1 go at school. Subsequently, distinctly average. Couldn’t focus.
I don't think abusing anything at young age is ok. Personally, weed helps me to focus (before that procrastination was a huge issue for me) , but I seldom used it before I turned 18.