It's not a rare occasion for someone to mention weed or smoking in our class. Many laugh. I, often, feel lost. I have never smoked, nor will I ever, so I don't understand the references, I don't get the jokes. Although I caved to drinking before 21 (oh, man, was I cool for doing it too--so cool the popular people only ignored me, instead of teasing me), I've never succumbed to weed. I don't get it. I'm one-fourth afraid of it, and three-fourths disgusted with it.
The rule-follower in me doesn't understand the desire to try any drugs--because that part of me feels it's either (a) a useless escape, because your life remains the same when you come back, (b) a desperate attempt to fit into a group of people who are just as desperate to be liked, or (c) a lame attempt at trying to fill boredom. 99% of me thinks smoking weed is wrong, and not just because it's illegal. Alcohol is legal, and I think drinking to get wasted is wrong. It's mostly that, damn, don't you guys want to use your brains? And I'm not even referencing the "losing your brain cells" argument, but the "aren't you creative enough to find different ways to spend your time" argument.
Going home and smoking every day is as lame and boring as the nerd (*cough, me*) who went home and played Zoo Tycoon or studied every day. Planning on smoking every weekend is as monotonous as playing WOW every weekend. Use your brain for something else.
Perhaps what I am most upset by is the dependence drugs engenders--not as in addiction, although that scares me, yes--but dependence in terms of using it to solve problems, using it to have fun, using it to pass the time. There are better, greater, more wise ways to do all of those things, but you'll never find them if you spend all your time smoking. Smoking is not the answer to all of life's questions. The saddest part to me is that it's becoming the most common answer. And what should make our society great is the variety of answers. We are losing our variety.
When you're high, when you're drunk, you're ignoring something--whether it be homework, a relationship, life itself as a whole. Don't escape so much that you have nothing to come back to.
From your drug-free partner--Haskalicious.
Mrs.Haskett i totally 100% agree with you on the weed thing. I have never smoked or done any kind of drug..i dont get it.I cant understand why so many people do it. I kinda find it annoying that people talk about it so much but maybe the reason why i dont like it so much is because i have had people who i love get hooked on it then tried another stuff and got hooked on that and i almost lost them.I just think its a nasty habit and i wish people would not do it because i DONT think weed should become someones life..(like people that smoke everyday.)and my advice to people who have never tired it i think you shouldnt try it because i havent and i think im living a good life without it.I dont know thats just my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI honestly agree ive been the ignorance of what weed has done to my mom's side of the family i think its bullshit, i will admit i do drink(not so much i get wasted) and i did smoke(i finally quit :P) but really what does it accomplish? nothing right? no matter what you do it always leads back to reality.
ReplyDeletei officially feel bad for talking about weed 1 time in class, i will never do it again. i dont even smoke weed that much, but when i do its when im with my boyfriend and i dont like to do it that much. i dont like drinking, i dont like the feeling that it gives. i mean at times depending on the people that im with it can be fun but in general its not a great thing. i used to be totally against it, and now ivee suckered in. anyways.. i wont be talking about it anymore in class because i dont want to disrespect you.
ReplyDeleteHmm. I don't have the need to smoke weed to have a good time, but I don't understand why cigarettes and booze are legal when doing both at the same time end up with the same product as smoking a joint. I'm just sayin'.
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"Hey! Lets go play with something that we potentially could become addicted to! Lets go put harmful substances into our bodies all for the sake of feeling good for a little while! Hey! Lets rationalize that its worth it because it's fun! Hey, guys? Where are you going? It's fuuuun!"
Mrs haskett, and everyone else, i respect your opinions, and you are not being attacked in any shape or form. thankyou::: Theres a little more in this world to worry about then weed. And yes, lets say we should be worried about drugs, because for the most part, 97% of drugs are not only harmful to your self, but to others. but people who are ill minded (not a bad thing) in the subject of drugs, will use weed as the example for all drugs in this world. Weed, can be used by ignorant teens who drink there sorrows away, and desperately look for a "drug" to prove some kind of point that goes deep to the core. We ALL have problems in this world, and we all need to find a way to cope. but to use weed ignorantly and every day, and drowning your self in it, is only giving it a bad name. its the same as someone drowning their selves in cupcakes. which is pretty damn harmful, and a stupid way to live. anything used over and over and over to a point of maximum overload is obviously unhealthy. and anything could be used in a way to have fun, but if its the only thing you do to have fun, and you have individual wrongs in your life, and people notice your way to have "fun" and find some werird way to connect that to the wrongs you have, then it gets a bad name, and when you do a certain thing to have fun, over and over, then its not fun anymore to you. The media, feeds us the idea of weed being this somekind of evil drug, over and over and over. and with this thought implanted in your brain, you tend to try to point things out (whether you realise it or not) in it to comfort your self in thinking its bad as well, "oh this guy stays home all day, and he smokes weed" BAM bad name to weed "this guy is a pyscho path that killed his whole family... oh did i mention he had a joint a week ago?" BAM bad name. all it takes is the implant of an idea, like a seed, and it grows. and grows. its happened over and over in society, until someone, like myself and others uncover the truth and people begin to think for themselves, and do ACTUAL research and understanding. Back then, we still had morals, so slavery probally wouldve been frowned on right away. but if you told people, that blacks were animals, and did crude acts, and were stupid and had no use in society (im not being racist, im only using slavery as an example of thought control) people will start to look for these qualitys in a single individual. and everything a single african american did, would be a prime example for all african americans. and then, to fit in our own moral beliefs, slavery was accepted, because after all, they were stupid animals right? WRONG. Drugs are bad,like heroin and crack and cocain and so on. and people believe weed is on that same level, yet we pop ibuprufen for breakfast, and ambien for dessert. the true harmful drugs you need to pay attention to in this world, is what i stated before and relatives to them, and MAN made little pills full of chemicals to mask pain. there are natural ways to go about the healing process, and i do admit, modern science has its health miracles, it truely does. but its gotten to the point, where theres pills for the smallest detail and its harming us a little more then healing us. i was addicted to ibuprofen and asprin for a while. not in an abused way where id take like 8. but in a way in which it was my answer to headaches, then to everyother pain i found. i have ways that actually worked for headaches, yet i ressolved to this unhealthy little pill cause of its ill convenience. i see people take ibuprofen or asprin for headaches for soo long, and until the day i introduce them to some herbs that were picked from the ground(not weed) and made into tea. simple pickings such as chamomile and mint. and it healed the headache, healthly, and instantly. so why resolve to pills? well theres not much a bad name to asprin, except to abusers, and its convenient.
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ReplyDeletewe have everything all backwards, and we are continuesly pointing at others ignorance, to fit our self into this small simple life of rules and regulations. there are people who abuse weed, and i find that highly disrespectful. but there are people that go through their life without saying "hey man, lets go get FUCKKKKED up with some bomb ass weed brooooooo and a bottle of four locoooo." and still use weed, in other ways, with no ignorance. there are people that have there own IDIVIDUAL problems and they start to find comfort in the wrong places. but you can never stop that, there is always someone to put a bad name on anything. ANYTHING. but it seems to always go unnoticed, until somebody points it out. did you know, that before weed was illegal, people found a way to make people find hatred in it, by telling them that negros smoked weed and did crimes. and people immediately starting finding more individuals issues, to put a name on weed. it all started with racism and wrongful judgment, and its still used today. do your research before you add to the scale. I admit, i was ignorant, and used weed and alcohol to find a way to escape, and to get FUCKED up, and always talked about it, even the begining of this year. and it wasnt until recently, until i had an awakening, and i started to get deeper in life and finding more truths. i use weed on a small ocassion, i refuse whenever someone asks me to "blaze it up or get fucked up" for i find it highly disrespectful and wrong.but now, i use it as an occasional mild awakening, and a mind opener. i put my school and my parents rules first. i refuse to ever come home stone, and or lie to my parents when im high. and for a while now, everytime they asked if i was high, i honestly told them no. no i may of painted a bad potrait of my self in my past, causing them not to believe me, but thats a price i have to pay for my previous ignorance. weed, is a magical plant, it does wonders. but just like with everything, anything can be abused, and blamed for individual wrong doings. I can go on forever, and write like 1000 paragraphs, and it will just go deeper and deeper, to roots to shamanism, psychadelics, nature, dreaming and recreation. but i will simply end this here. any questions, or criticism, please comment this post, for it will be on my profile as well. thank you.
i think it might be hard for people who haven't tried it to understand. it's not what everyone makes it up to be, and i agree with the stupid reasons why people would do it like if they were just trying to fit in. you shouldn't do something that you don't want to do if you don't like it. for me, weed is a beautiful plant that is very misunderstood by most people. the only reason its illegal is because the government didnt want to lose money. you know if weed was legal, we can use hemp to make paper and that can save millions of trees that get cut down, hemp can make clothing, and hemp seed oil can even be used to make plastic products biodegradable.
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