please please please don’t attack me for saying this but the normalisation of teenagers and college students smoking weed is becoming a problem
to elaborate, the other day i was visiting a college which has a bit of a reputation, as many colleges do, for having a lot of weed. and i mentioned one of my concerns for attending, which was the fact that if i inhale marijuana secondhand smoke, i have an asthma attack and physically can’t breathe. and i mentioned this to a couple prospective students and i both times got the reaction “it’s ok; you can just use edibles!” and i didn’t really say this at the time, but the fact is, i don’t want to. i don’t want to interact with weed at all in college, and—at least at my high school—that’s considered strange. and i honest-to-god believe that is majorly fucked up.
and here’s the thing. even expressing this sentiment is hard. because when i try to talk about the consequences of doing weed (yeah believe it or not there are some) or even my reasons for not wanting to do weed, people assume i believe myself to be morally better than someone who does do weed, and i don’t. i don’t feel superior to anyone, especially not for a reason as stupid as that. the thing is, i don’t want to use my asthma as an excuse for not wanting to vape, but i feel like i have to. i don’t want to use my asthma as an excuse for not wanting to smoke, but i feel like i have to. and i hate this aspect of the culture i’m in. i hate that i have to defend the position of “i don’t think eighteen-year-olds should smoke weed.” i hate that it’s considered normal—even cool—to consistently put recreational drugs in your body from ages 13-24.
since making this post i’ve been called a bitch and a narc, which i think really tells you something.
As a major stoner in my 30s I seriously feel so bad for young people dealing with this.
There ARE very real effects to using weed, especially before 25. You can prevent your brain from fully developing. You can destroy your memory. You can create a chemical dependency that just isn’t as likely after 25.
Again, I’m saying this as a 100% pro weed stoner. I started using it for pain and found that it works for my OCD and depression too. And it is also fun as hell for me. I spend my day using enough to get by and then get wasted before bed to enjoy dinner and stupid cartoons. I’ve introduced plenty of people to the stuff and I’ve spent entire weekends too baked to move.
That is a BAD idea for people in their teens and early 20s. ESPECIALLY edibles, which tend to be more potent and are more likely to train a young brain to need it to maintain normal function.
But even knowing all of that, it’s your choice. You wanna get fucked up at 21 for 18 hours a day? None of my business. It’s your life and I made my own stupid mistakes at that age (fucked my liver with 8 energy drinks a day).
But leave people who aren’t willing to risk it alone. I feel the same fucking way about alcohol. Just because it makes you feel good and you’re having fun doesn’t mean that it’s like that for everyone. And it doesnt mean that everyone around you has to make the choices you do.
Yes, it’s human instinct to go on the defensive when someone makes the “morally upright” choice when you don’t, but… that’s in your fucking head. That’s not their problem and we all need to stop making it their problem.
Weed is great. It’s less harmful than booze. It has lots of health benefits. It should be just as legal as alcohol. But it isn’t for everyone and it’s time to actually act like adults about other humans living their own lives.
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