SHI: LOL what percentage of your hippie generation were drug users? Like 100
Not 100
That’s the weird thing about pot. There are no people who don’t use it but don’t care if others do. If you don’t use it you absolutely hate it with the most insane and intense passion. The cops were all completely insane about pot, too. My neighbor across the street was a cop.
My parents’ generation absolutely hated pot in the worst way, and almost none of them smoked it or even tried. Pot was called “drugs.” If you smoked pot, it meant you were “into drugs” and that was one of the worst things you can possibly be.
I actually like it a lot better now that drug use has become much more normalized, and so many people have either experienced it or have had close ones who did. With familiarity comes sanity. Estrangement doesn’t usually lead to rationality. The greater the estrangement, typically the greater the emotionality and irrationality.
The pot-haters caused so much pain in my life. So much rejection and hate, firing me from jobs, arresting, jailing, and threatening to kill me by cops, and just this huge Grand Canyon of Hate between the “drug users” – people who smoked weed – and everyone else. Also pot use was all tied in with use of all the other drugs like cocaine, heroin, speed, downers, psychedelics, etc.
To the dope-haters it was literally all the same thing. A joint = 20 years of hardcore heroin addiction. There wasn’t even 1
There are still some pot-haters out there, mostly women. I meet women on dating sites who won’t date me because I smoked pot six years ago. I had a psychiatrist recently who diagnosed me psychotic since I said I was a current pot user – as in, I had used it five years ago. If you are a “current user” even five years ago, according to him, you are automatically psychotic.
I had an MD who told me that pot caused amotivational syndrome, even if you used it only once a year! That’s how deranged the pot-hating kooks are and have always been. There’s good reasons to oppose the use of this drug, but the pot-haters never utilize any of them. They’re almost all insane. Pot haters are crazy, period and there are few if any exceptions. There is something weird about that drug that drives the most bizarre wedge of irrationality between humans.
We may be getting towards a more normal view of the drug such as exists in Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, etc. Pot is a drug of the East. And that’s always been part of the problem. I hate to use an SJW word, but the concept is actually valid. We hated pot because of Orientalism. This concept is much-abused by the Stupid Left, but I wouldn’t say it doesn’t exist.
Then it was a drug of the Blacks and the Mexicans – in other words, of the niggers and the spics. Use was so stigmatized in my parents’ years that the only Whites who did it were more or less criminals or lowlifes like me slumming it up in the ghetto.
Cannabis has also been fairly normalized in parts of Latin America such as Jamaica, Mexico, and Colombia. Not sure about the rest of the continent.
Parts of the world where cannabis is naturalized or normalized seem to have a much more level-headed and sane view of the drug. Where it’s stigmatized it just seems to cause mass psychosis in large parts of the population who despise the drug.
I really don’t like the pot-haters at all, sorry.
Pot seems harmless for a lot of people, maybe not all. Well, there’s the youth learning retardation thing.
Anyway, harder drugs are pretty much blowing out your stereo speakers, eventually. Well, your messing with dopamine too much – and that Parkinson’s disease is around the corner!
But I don’t believe in criminalizing any drugs – but people should know the dangers.
I guess that makes me one of those rare people who personally can’t stand the effects of pot (on me), yet doesn’t give two shits if other people use it.
But…drugs r’ bad, mmkay?
Basically, I think pot/drug hysteria is yet another manifestation of the moralfagging impulse that seems like a native feature of the Anglo cultural DNA. And of course this involves taking a totally uncompromising black/white view toward the object of ire. I know you’ve talked about this obnoxious phenomenon at length on here.
Luckily the irrational hatred of weed seems to be fading into the past, as its use has become more and more normalized as of late, since we are now in the paradigm of decriminalization and legalization.
Having said that, I’m not too keen on a society of unambitious stoners. Yet at the same time, this seems preferable to having permadrunk wife-beaters everywhere.