(no subject)
Nov. 16th, 2003 02:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sathorA anti-marijuana add greatly disturbed me today.
It had a little girl, probably like two years old, walking over to a pool probably 6 feet deep and trying to get on one of those floats...heh...then the screen goes black.
"Just tell your parents you weren't watching her because you were getting stoned, they'll understand."
"Be responsible" and it has the america drug-free logo
You know...it's sad when they have no other negative things to say other than side-affects that can be controlled by an experienced user.
That's it. The only things they can say are examples. Marijuana is about as bad for you physically as cigarettes, it hasn't affected me mentally I can garauntee except when I'm actually high (the effect then changes depending on who I'm around), and I find it hard to believe that anyone who has a little kid that age to watch is going to get high and ignore the kid, but hmm, lets see, OH YEAH - that's the only defense the damn anti-drug society feels it has. It has nothing else. They have no way of determining whether someone is high during a car accident, so any information they give there is from a blood sample/piss test which goes back quite farther than the amount of time they were driving. They have no proof of ill mental effects, they have not a damn thing. If it was really bad for you, they wouldn't say it's okay to use medically.
They have nothing. I laugh at their ignorance.
Another depicted a guy in his basement smoking a joint, probably 20+ years old, and his little brother walking down the stairs saying how he never dropped out of school, never got put in jail...but he 'never did anything' and therefore was stuck sitting on the couch.
So sad that they decide anyone who smokes marijuana won't be successful. Hah. So opinionated.
Someday humanity will realize that the only thing it has going for it is choices, and every single one that gets taken away is another step towards loss of freedom. Or maybe humanity will never realize it.
The social contract you might say. But I don't recall ever signing my freedom of choice away.
I am human, I will be what I want to be in face of all odds, I will stay the way I want to stay, and no one is going to stop me.
I would GLADLY die for my beliefs.
And don't you ever tell me I'm wrong for dressing the way I do, wrong for smoking marijuana, wrong for having faith in my Gods, for trying to become a Druid, for believing in magick or anything.
Because you can't prove that I am wrong. And because it is my right to believe what I wish.
I had about a two page rant from here on, but I deleted it. Because I realized no matter how much I believe my opinion is right, I cannot force it upon others. I choose not to preach. 'Tis a sad day though when I finally give up on saying that we should raise a generation of lovers, because I know it isn't going to happen, and I am a fool for being that optimistic.
But maybe I should've posted it anyway, because the truth is it's not preaching in a journal, it's an opinion and everyone should see it that way.
-sigh-
It had a little girl, probably like two years old, walking over to a pool probably 6 feet deep and trying to get on one of those floats...heh...then the screen goes black.
"Just tell your parents you weren't watching her because you were getting stoned, they'll understand."
"Be responsible" and it has the america drug-free logo
You know...it's sad when they have no other negative things to say other than side-affects that can be controlled by an experienced user.
That's it. The only things they can say are examples. Marijuana is about as bad for you physically as cigarettes, it hasn't affected me mentally I can garauntee except when I'm actually high (the effect then changes depending on who I'm around), and I find it hard to believe that anyone who has a little kid that age to watch is going to get high and ignore the kid, but hmm, lets see, OH YEAH - that's the only defense the damn anti-drug society feels it has. It has nothing else. They have no way of determining whether someone is high during a car accident, so any information they give there is from a blood sample/piss test which goes back quite farther than the amount of time they were driving. They have no proof of ill mental effects, they have not a damn thing. If it was really bad for you, they wouldn't say it's okay to use medically.
They have nothing. I laugh at their ignorance.
Another depicted a guy in his basement smoking a joint, probably 20+ years old, and his little brother walking down the stairs saying how he never dropped out of school, never got put in jail...but he 'never did anything' and therefore was stuck sitting on the couch.
So sad that they decide anyone who smokes marijuana won't be successful. Hah. So opinionated.
Someday humanity will realize that the only thing it has going for it is choices, and every single one that gets taken away is another step towards loss of freedom. Or maybe humanity will never realize it.
The social contract you might say. But I don't recall ever signing my freedom of choice away.
I am human, I will be what I want to be in face of all odds, I will stay the way I want to stay, and no one is going to stop me.
I would GLADLY die for my beliefs.
And don't you ever tell me I'm wrong for dressing the way I do, wrong for smoking marijuana, wrong for having faith in my Gods, for trying to become a Druid, for believing in magick or anything.
Because you can't prove that I am wrong. And because it is my right to believe what I wish.
I had about a two page rant from here on, but I deleted it. Because I realized no matter how much I believe my opinion is right, I cannot force it upon others. I choose not to preach. 'Tis a sad day though when I finally give up on saying that we should raise a generation of lovers, because I know it isn't going to happen, and I am a fool for being that optimistic.
But maybe I should've posted it anyway, because the truth is it's not preaching in a journal, it's an opinion and everyone should see it that way.
-sigh-
