Re: Weed...the new thing?

I was going to make a comment but i just decided to copy and past into a blog.
the original post was Weed... the new thing?. the girl was conserned about the apparent rising amount of students in lower classmen levels of highschool currently using. I would go more in depth and revise my post to make more sense but I am at work and i think if i dont sign off quickly i will probably get fired for not doing anything as of yet. so if you'd like read the Weed..the new thing? post or just enjoy my rant about marijuana.

Weed... the new thing?

You have missed it entirely. How many of you that have commented on this have done any actuall research on the topic. I myself have done quite a bit of dabbling in drugs and yes they are all bad. I must say weed is definatly the least of your worries. Marijuana has a much worse reputation than it deserves and there are quite a few misconceptions as to the damaging effects of marijuana. As a former user I will tell you the no-bull side of marijuana.

In itself, marijuana is actually a very helpful herb. It causes people to be hungry, something that really helps cancer patients. It creates a pacifist attitude that, when applied to the whole, can be a good thing. The problem with weed is it is a replacment for life. Weed makes you okay with just sitting around doing nothing.

Students and young people will spend their day comming up with money to buy it then sit and smoke it untill they pass out or run out and the next day they will do the same thing. Weed makes you feel like everthing is going to be alright, you know that saying "good things come to those who wait." That's the subconsious stoner code. It's as if they feel that if they just sit around and smoke pot then all will work itself out.

It works, so far as they care. They manage to get enough money everyday to get high enough every day to keep them in this loop. And this is just one problem with weed. Next is the gateway drug theroy. Look, smoking pot is not going to make you do other drugs. The problem is when you meet new pot smokers and dealers, and if you smoke pot you will, there is a good chance they use some other sort of drug to. When you hear about the differnt stories they have and the things they've done you want to try it so you can have stories to, hence the gateway. But just because someone smokes pot doesn't mean they are going to use other drugs.

Marijuana is also used by other harder drug users as a medium for lessening the pain of withdrawls, so you could say its like the patch of the drug world. And just because most people who do harder drugs also smoke pot does not make it a gateway. I've not done any sort of poll but I bet if you did most all users of any sort of drug would also smoke cigarettes, and I bet you would find more peole using "harder" drugs than pot would be more likely to smoke than marijuana users.

I know the point your making is a good one. when I started using I was 14 and I messed up my whole underclassman years. I attended highschool for four and three-quarter school years because of my mistakes concerning skipping and lack of motivation, most of which can be directly linked to my using it is a terrible thing that so many young people do it and I wish there were a way to regulate it that would be effective.

Unfortunatly, the only way to prevent use is to educate on the real harm drugs can do. Lets not scare our children and sisters and brothers by some far off unrealistic diseases( and I mean unrealistic to these young ones) and really talk to them about the immediate effects and the real consequences for their actions not by the law or the eventual damage to their health, but the way their decisions are effected on a daily basis by just chooseing pot over school.

I mean pot is always going to be there, and no, to answer the main question you asked weed is not the new thing. Marijuana has been around since before our fore fathers sat around a pipe and hammered out the constitution(jk). Students should know that they have their entire lives to try new things, but this point in their lives is about learning all the things there are to try. we havn't developed enough of a life yet to actually handle being under the influence, it can get to the point where youger people assume that older people just think inebriation is life, and maybe some do.

Maybe these reckless adults you hear about are just reckless teens that have refused to grow into respectable adults believeing that everyone just chooses a differn't form of inebriation for their life style. I dont know, I grew up with amazing parents and they taught me that there is way to much in life to give up looking for whatever makes you the most happy just because you cant see what it is yet. You never know when that perfect job is going to come your way, what you'll be doing when your true love walks through the door for the first time. You dont know where you'll be when your wife calls you to tell you she's in labor, but you'd better make sure it's doing the right thing.

All said and done pot is a choice, and one that no amount of pressure one way or anothercan be responsible for. When it comes don to it some people want to try pot and some dont. The only way to help young people to stop smoking is by either helping them decide to be one of the people who dont smoke pot, though that doesn't seemed to have worked so far. Or maybe we could try to actually talk to them and try to convince them to wait to make that desicion untill there stable enough to handle that kind of obligation.