God....stories...I got a million of 'em..cuz I'm old! the ROTC (we called 'em Retards On The Campus, or Re-loads Of The Cannons. I was in high school just as the VietNam war was ending)were real jerks at my high school...cocky, arrogant jerks. They thought they were mighty special. They never beat ME up, but they did insult and threaten everybody, and did beat up others. They hung out in packs, so you couldn't really retaliate, not even verbally. I wished to verbally abuse them in return...but I couldn't. That was a real character test for me.
And at the 25th class reunion...some of them were still cocky, arrogant jerks. Most of them had turned into real nice guys. I was pleasantly surprised. None of them went on to a military career. Two became cops. The other 3 former jerky boys were a teacher, a school district superintendent, and a lawyer. They really changed themselves. And they spent half the night apologising to people they had abused, LOL!
The ones who were still jerks...were, how shall I say it, not high achievers in life, and not at peace with themselves or the world at all. In fact, at the reunion one of them got especially liquored up and started a brawl with a former nemesis(who is now a high muckety-muck doctor). Jerky got his fanny kicked good.
What does all this have to do about cannabis? Not a thing(legalise it!). Just another thread-waster from yours truly. I'm NEVER on the side of people who beat other people up just for the heck of it. AprilBL