The issue with pot is that is exposes you!
It's a truth serum and strips ones ability to bullshit or lie, which can be a problem if your circumstances or situation sucks!
Most people glaze over minor disagreements or differences of opinion with a shoulder shrug but this can be hard if you feel compelled to be honest.
Also ‘pot or alcohol’ is never the problem itself but expose an individual’s antisocial behavior and ones inability to face limitations or failings. Pot becomes the scapegoat.
If someone's lazy or unmotivated pot is the perfect escape if they chose to abuse pot an over indulgence is a form of acting out or perhaps a cry for help or a more that is being neglected or misinterpreted.
If someone has a need to satiate an indulgence picking ones poison is very important so choosing an obsession with exercise or healthy eating is more rewarding than cigarettes, drink or drugs.
Pot might be a better solution than other drugs due to the fact that one cannot overdose. It's perhaps the lesser of other evils and certainly better than prescription drugs or anti depressants.
Pot is never the solution to anyone's problems but can expose or reveal an individual's ability to self-discipline or control their behavior.
The issue with pot is because you can never overdose or fall victim of abuse the social exclusion or isolating nature of this habit can cause other social or emotional issues like loneliness or depression.
That is then easily mixed in with personal conflicts, grievances, divorce, a bad break up, poverty or financial pressures.
Let's face it life has a way of dishing out a few ass kicking’s and ego checking's along the journey and we all face periods of adversity and life is a challenge.
Rarely would a drug habit be the right option.