I can definitely understand peoples’ issues with it being consumed, especially in a political context, but how do yall feel about “weed”? I won’t hide my feelings, I am very much pro-weed, it’s not great that I started in my mid-teens but in my area it’s FAR from uncommon. I don’t smoke daily or anything, I’m not addicted to it (people say it’s non-habit forming but any drug can be addictive with enough frequent usage) but I do smoke and dab w/ friends often. That’s not why I believe in legalization tho, my main thing is you shouldn’t make a naturally occurring plant an illegal substance. I’d point to the DEA’s destructive (legal) burning of thousands of naturally occurring marijuana plants found in nature; This seems eco-fascist to me and to deny the uses of hemp as a production material seems dogmatic to me. The USSR used hemp for industrial purposes during the war and it helped in a major way. I’m sure most of us are familiar with the badge given for Hemp growers. If you have any criticisms, I’m more than open to it, but I feel that marijuana won’t be easy to get rid of in future society and would probably be put to use in different more productive ways.
I couldn’t agree more. The DEA-approved drug talks they gave in public schools (I attended) made people CURIOUS instead of skeptical of drugs because they would make it seem like 10 joints in a lifetime is equivalent to shooting up heroin everyday of your life. Kids obviously had older brothers or cousins that had smoked pot and never died, so they’d try it. If I can find it I’ll add the link in and edit, but there was a great video on how the D.A.R.E. Program completely backfired because it overhyped how dangerous drugs were instead of just being real about how harmful drugs can be.
yup. those times the cop would come to school and talk about drugs made drugs sound so awesome.
I do think, schools need to be educating students on the dangers of drugs far more than they do though. I hear many people downplay how dangerous many of them are and I think that should be supplemented by teaching about the dangers in schools (but also teaching about safe injections and other things like that and how they make something less dangerous)