In the past few years there have been many “Weed Movies” made and even a hit television show called Weeds. Harold and Kumar, How High, Super High Me, Knocked Up, The Wackness, Pineapple Express (coming to theaters August 6th), and so many more have all come out within the past ten years. Is this increased media exposure, and glorified look at drug use corrupting the youth of America?
This argument is similar to the one about video game violence leads to violence in real life. Can watching “Weed/Stoner Movies” make someone more likely to smoke marijuana? To me the answer is no. I have seen many of these movies with my friends (and enjoyed them), I am looking forward to seeing Pineapple Express, and I have never smoked marijuana. I think it is a personal decision and that watching a movie can’t make you smoke. You are the only one who has control over what goes into your body, no one else.
Is this increased look into drug culture increasing drug use in America? I doubt it, but should we think it is acceptable to use drugs? Simply put, no. Yes these movies are funny and entertaining, but they are movies. Drugs can have a very dramatic and damaging effect on people lives and should not be used. Just because it looks cool doesn’t mean it is.
Are abuses which see the light of day, like a prostitute can walk at noon on fith avennue, some don’t fit all mindset, like a devil never seen by the eye but allways feared for some reasons one has to know, still, one in another mindset in yet to come and see with a peace of mind.
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It is said,
Can’t help it - tangoterje
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to say.
I’m not trying anything, just saying that one might easily become to love what one might dislike today.
What should or should not is none of no one’s business, but one’s own!
:-)
It is said,
Can’t help it - tangoterje
There is no question about this, all the weed tv shows and weed movies have a certain influence over perception about drugs. I am mostly concerned about the teen segment, they are a lot easier to influence, they lack protection and they get easily exposed to drugs... It wouldn't hurt us to be more aware of this, there are too many teens in drug rehab already...
i think these movies have some form of influence on the teen population. a teen watches the movie and then talks about it to their buddies. then in return they talk about situations in which they encountered weed or friends of family members smoking the drug. then the conversation could possibly continue to the point that one of them happens to have some and invites everyone to come and smoke it.
influence like that.