I live in australia, and at my school, everyone has to do a year of learning about drugs, and illnesses, and other body things. We learnt all the things about the main drugs, how they work, what the statistics are, the pros and cons. I thought it was a reeeaaally helpful and informative course, and i think all people in teh world should be tought these things. even though most ppl are too stupid to understand... so who else gets this pdhpe (personal development and health; physical education) stuff tought at highschool (grades 9-12 or so, depending on your education system)? waht do you ppl think about it? shudnt it be tought everywhere, especially in the US, where education can be so conservative, or biased ?(no offence, but it really is true, especially from comparing it to other country's) Although it made me more curious to do drugs than not (not the case for the majority of my peers it seems lol), it made me much more aware on how they work so i know waht im doing.
Well, at my school (Rocky Mountain High School) which is in the states, the drug and alcohol unit only incorporates marijuana and alcohol... All they spout is the cons and they brandish amotivational syndrome and the gateway theory like they are true and happen to everyone who smokes pot occasionally; it's rather annoying. There's this poster of CAT scans (which are fake) that show that a 16 year old's mind after 2 years of daily use and it's worse than the methamphetamine! It was funny though, because I tripped up the teacher with questions. He talked about the negative effects on your lungs and I asked him whether that could be avoided if it was eaten; he didn't even know you could bake bud into stuff.
ive found we dont really get that bs here in oz. Our teacher was pretty cool tho. hed like to talk about the drtugs he had done, and the ones he hadnt, he liked learning about himself, from teh syllabus (teachers have to learn stuff to teach it too remember, and new info comes out all teh time).
Ya, well, my health teacher thought that smoking bud once would ruin someone's life... So he just spouted what the government had given him. America is all about statistics (which are misleading) and scare tactics. When I was ticketed, the cop was almost non-chalant about the whole thing; I don't think they'd mind it being legalized as its just a pain in the ass to process all of the paperwork.
i live in australia and at our school they like encourage us to try marijuana. well they dont encourage us but they teach us that theres practically nothing unhealthy about marijuana and its safer than alchohol or tobacco. also is it illegal to smoke pot in australia? coz the cops really dont seem to care
Yer it is illegal, cept in some states. u can grow two plants that are lower than two feet or soemthing, in the ACT. thats about teh extent of my legal knowlege in this issue lol. but yeah, waht doesnt fit is that australia is one of the two main countries that dissalow salvia divinorum. like.. wtf? anyway, its just like with udnerage drinkning. cops only care if theyve had a quiet evening. othwerise they cudnt care less. at tropfest, the sydney annual film festival, like one in every four groups were smoking weed. and there were cops everywhere. one guy had a fuckin hookah and they didnt stop him. but yeah, good too see this teaching is spread in asutralia and not jsut like in my school in sydney...
pot is not harmless any drug even caffeine is bad for you. all schools should teach the bad side effects and the good stuff. but you are quite ignorant to say its harmless. thats jsut the exact opposite of saying its terrible for you and its a no good thing.
the "war on drugs" started in the eighties made it pretty much common to tell kids in the us a lot of made up crap about drugs. it's even in some medical books. i had to take health in 6th grade, 8th grade (that one was only a month and mainly about drugs) and in 11th. it made me hate drugs and everything, but then i woke up and realized how safe it is to smoke pot. they don't tell you how good things can be. i don't really like this system. yes, information (as in actual facts) should be given to teens, but our country is so obsessed with making us into there little robots that we can get things like Paxil, but forget pot... okay i'm done.
in my elementary school, we had 1 day were a recovering drug and alcohol addict came in to talk to us. they had a briefcase with immitation drugs and they talked about how they started drinking when they were six, smoking weed when they were 8. then go down all the drugs in the briefcase and only say the negatives and how it ruined there lives. they never gave any research on drugs, just what they had "experienced," mostly what the gov't told them to say. then in middle school, we had talks about how smoking and drinking is bad for you during 7 grade and a couple times a year in phys. ed. then in 10th grade, in biology class, we had talks about how marijuana is bad for you...still all the gov't bs. i had just started smoking in 10th grade and didn't know that much, so i really couldn't question the teacher at the time. but by 12th grade, i could make a pretty good case against what they told us. that was how my (mis)information training went for learning about drugs and alcohol.
people get more information by questioning me than what they get in the book....ive actually gone into the book and proven things wrong
i just had like a 30 min talk with my history teacher in front of the whole class. he is hell pro-weed and he told me of all this stuff about hemp and told me of a shop to go to in the city. we had a free dress day and i wore a shirt with 16 different strains of bud on and then we just started talking to the whole class
thats awesome reefer. there was 1 teacher at my high school who was really open about it. then were a couple who were closeted smokers, people who smoked when they were younger. i could see that these people smoked before by how they acted and reacted to me and other people when weed was brought up. teachers who were anti and had over heard us would scorn us, but the teachers that were okay with it, just walked by. but we never could have open discussions in class about it, since it was a catholic school. except for one class, my religion teacher who i had for 3 years, doesn't smoke, but supports legalization and what not. if it came up in our discussions about things, then we could go into it, but once that discussion was done, it was done. but i could always stay after school and talk to another teacher about anything. she was real cool about it, only afterschool though. then this year at college, i had a prof. who always came to class high. he masked the smell pretty good, but you could tell by his blood-shot eyes and his reactions.
