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Why are we cheering so much for normalizing deviance? What's the next step after cannabis is considered normal and teenagers need to rebel?
by bitL 5y ago
Why are we cheering so much for normalizing deviance? What's the next step after cannabis is considered normal and teenagers need to rebel?
- flurben 5y agoIn what way is it deviant?
- bitL 5y agoIt makes people weak, unable to control themselves and resist urges. That transfers to other areas of life or even civilization.
- mtnGoat 5y agoplease provide scientific proof of these claims. i know many successful potheads that do not have any of those issues.
- bitL 5y agoAnd I know many potheads that see dragons. Please provide a scientific proof your potheads don't suffer from accelerated cognitive decline. https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/the-effects-of-marijuana-on-your-memory https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/the-effects-of-... https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2015-oct/recreational-marijuana-and-cognitive-decline-what-every-clinical-neurologist-needs-to-know https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2015-oct/recreationa... "Those with cannabis dependence at the first three or four follow-up visits experienced significant cognitive decline from three to eight IQ points. This was noted in the persistence of cannabis users and those with cannabis dependence." You are a free person, but why impose this danger on everyone? You can always skirt the law if you decide so, why make other people in their most formative years dumb?
- mosiuerbarso 5y agoThey used to say the same thing about motion pictures last century: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19131008&id=IvkQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=75IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3140,769234&hl=en https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19131008&id=... I remember reading that quite a lot of people didn't like Elvis too for his provocative dancing and believed he'd have a corrupting influence on the youth of the time. In retrospect these things didn't turn out to be so bad after all.
- droptablemain 5y agoI don't know where you live, but cannabis has been considered normal in many areas for a very long time.
- bitL 5y agoAnd? Why should my country allow it? Why an addicted minority needs to set policy for everyone?
- kesselvon 5y agoAlcohol is normalized and regulated, doesn't stop teenagers from rebelling by getting drunk.
- bitL 5y agoThe point was that cannabis used to be the "youth rebel" drug of choice making teenagers feel they crossed the boundaries of society and were therefore cool. Now you legalize it, what are teens going to do? Krokodil to see how their hands fall off alive and they can pose as real zombies? /s
- mtnGoat 5y agocannabis is already "normal". i think rather people are cheering for freedom to choose to do or not do it, in the land of the free. you know that stuff we are always promised?