I hope it does not depict being a junky in too positive a light. Perhaps as the director I sentimentalized the end. The true lives of junkies are sadder, even worse.
Sports are far worse than drugs.
They encourage brutishness and violence as a means of problem-solving. They cause large mobs to chant nationalistic slogans. O.J. Simpson is the perfect product of the sports industry. Pot smoking, on the other hand, encourages pacifism, appreciation of the arts, eating and sex. And this, I think, is why it is so diligently banned.