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Who cares what people think of you? I have had long hair for years and years, and now I am in the process of growing dreads and it is awesome. Some people still insist that I do drugs, however the real people know that I don't do drugs, or drink, or smoke. Hell man I can't even take tylanol because I get gag reflexes. Hahaha. All is good man, don't worry about steriotypes. Just be yourself.

 

It's very easy for all of us to say 'be yourself', but it's way harder to actually go through with that statement. To make it easier, ask yourself (really ask yourself) this:

Do you really want to get to the end of your life with the realization that you've been nothing you've ever wanted to be due to the opinions of others?

 

*shrug*

People will always try to stereotype and categorize you. No matter what you look like, how you dress, how you wear your hair, etc. I don't CARE. I just let go of it and live my life, and be myself. Honestly, letting my hair dread was a step toward that for me. Over the years I think I've lost a lot of tact.... I've forgotten how to fake being someone else. If I'm not good enough, just being me, in any situation, I'd rather not be there. If my clothes, in all their handmade-artistic-unique-colorful glory are not fancy enough and my hair not being combed and short and pretty is somehow unacceptable... Great! I've just saved a lot of time that would otherwise be wasted with closed-minded assholes.

Lately, for me, it's about commitment, too. I've said this before. My head isn't dready for the month. It's not a hairstyle I chose last week. When you see my hair, it's obvious you're looking at the last 7 years of my life and you can see that I'm committed to who I am!

 

i do smoke weed but not tobacco
weed is not a drug, its a plant and a flower, God put it here and He wants it to grow, and the government prohibited it

what about legal drugs?? much worse... the government will continue manipulating the population because they got interests behind all that shit

did you know that more than 50% of home violence is related with alcohol use?
did you know that alcohool and tobacco as substances, are the top killing substances?(coffee and pills are just below them) while noone has ever died because of the marijuana substance.. cmon its the best plant ever... fuel, clothing, medicine, food, enjoyment =]
i mean.. why are they still legal? and why weed is not?

 

it is a drug in the sense that gets you high, as mushrooms, salvia, cactus, opium... thats why i answered YES to the poll. because marijuana is a drug in the SOCIETY's perspective..
im not ignorant... im just trying to inform some people that think marijuana is just for smoking and fun.. its not all about that.. pot can save the world.. if you want i can post how it can save...

i do smoke sometimes a rolled natural tobacco, i enjoy it.. i dont have anything against tobaccos... but manipulated tobacco as marlboro full of chemicals that makes 10x more adictive and lethal, YES, i dont like them

anyway.. sorry if i offended you. if so, dont be
and still.. i dont think weed is a drug.. but thats what they want you to think
each of us has a different philosophy, thats a fact.. im sorry if you do not agree with me and i do not agree with you, it happens

 

I highly doubt anyone was offended. It's just that you've got a semantics problem and if you're going to be a flag waving advocate for something, then you'll need to address it or - like goatboy said - all your good information about pot will get looked over because of that one fallacy.

And semantics says weed is a drug. So is caffiene and alcohol and so on. All have potential to be helpful or harmful depending on the use. Any other connotation of the word drug that involves morality (ie: a 'good' drug or a 'bad' drug) is a matter of INDIVIDUAL perception. The word 'Drug' itself has no morality attatched to it.

We're not dissing you or pot. We understand that pot is a medicially great drug as well as recreationally and it would be fantastic if it could be decriminalized. But be aware that denying that weed is a drug is going to hurt your message. I'm not being an asshat, just trying to improve your arguement.

(Also, for reference, a vast majority of drugs come from plants. Like all your opiates and it's derivitaves. )

 

all right!

 

hahaha the score is 50-50 right now

this is just as stupid as the fairytale
that all goth-kids are witches.

but if you act like a drug addicted lazy bumb
than people will think that of you.
people judge.
now it's your choise if you wanna let your happiness depend on that.

 

You can pass a piss test. end of story. don't sweat it !

 

soooo.... not to be all subversive or anything (and excuse me if this makes no sense, I'm hella tired and nt seeing straight...) BUT, what about someone who doesn't drink, smoke, take prescription painkillers or even otc meds etc. but ingests cannabis for medicinal purposes? Are they "doing drugs"? If so, what do you say about the middle-aged, middle-class mother of four who is chemically dependent on painkillers and antidepressants, but harps on "drugs are bad" to her children and supports DARE?

 

that is a really good point Linnea, it is ridiculous how in referring to 'doing drugs' most people talk about illegal substances where just as much an argument can be made against OTC medications and prescriptions,even though that conversation doesn't happen as often..

silly chemically Dependant dare mothers.

 

My mom is chemically dependent, it blows. It mainly blows because she does not know she is chemically dependent on those drugs until we have no money to buy them and she flips and has mood swings. =\

However on this topic... Many many people talk to me and try to tell me that I do drugs..its odd though, most of these kids have never met me outside of school...and in school I just zone out and think creatively and write songs..

 

is Marijuana a drug? no, it is a plant. The chemicals in Marijuana (THC, which is where you get your high) is a drug. They now make prescription pills for stomach discomfort from extracting these chemicals from Marijuana.

Is Marijuana "natrual"? No, not the Marijuana you smoke. People who grow Marijuana for the purpose of smoking manipulate the plant so that it produces more and more of these chemicals. This is how you get the crystals on bud, its because the little sacs which contain the THC get so swelled that they break.

The thing i hate most about Marijuana is the sterotype that all the people who smoke it bring (such as bands like "Kottonmouth Kings" and all the kids who think it makes them harder or cooler. All these people talk about wanting it to be legalized, but look at them, they bring this horrible stereotype. I smoke Marijuana at night because i enjoy it, but most of my friends dont smoke, and the ones that do dont try to throw that out and make a big deal about it.

Can legalizing Marijuana help society? no, but hemp can.

and drugs have NOTHING to do with my hair, i think choosing the way you look to try to fit into some sort of stereotype defeats the purpose.

 

just because it comes from a plant makes it not a drug??? this is very untrue. Most all drugs are dervied from plants and while the potency of mari is increased because of the growing tech, this doesnt change anything. There are plrenty of very strong drugs that reqire no outside influence and occur normaly in the environment.... eg=peyote among many others. THC is the active chemical, but it is derived from maji.... its the same as poppy plants and opium.

Mari and society....
It has shown powerful benifits for many disabilitating diseses. It terms of conciousness, well, i prefer mushrooms to do that job right. And hemp is a fansatic material, very cheap to produce, and very strong. I SUPPORT IT TOO.

Maji gets a bad rep, but the issue should be discussed from its root, its begining. the demonizing of socaly constructed taboos bestowed upon us by puritan conservative. They gave it the bad rep! It doesnt help that the most popularized smoker (MArley) was a black man.... talk about an oppurtunity to demonize the smokers culture because of racist discrimination...

I will now step down from the soapbox, hope you enjoyed the rant

 

A drug is any chemical substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function. Yes, JUST smoking a little natural ganga is a drug.... and based on this definition so is minor stimulants... (caffine) and spicy food (capsicum)... and minor setitives (milk... serioulsy, check it out). The real question is what you feel of the word "drug." It is a taboo word in our culture (western) and forces you to feel wrong doing. that is the sociological norm of the concept.

 

sorry but most of what you just tried to explain makes no sense. and there is a difference between Hemp (the benificial stuff) and Marijuana (the stuff you smoke).

 

hemp is the plant material that comes from the marijuana plant. this is correct right? They have very different uses and i support them both... for society. it doesn't make sense? what do ya mean, most of it is ideas (feel free to disagree) but they are developed ideas none the less... about the steriotyping of stoners and where the ideas have come from. About the word 'drug' and how people are always trying to better define it. but the truth is 'drugs' are EVERYWHERE, in the TRIPTYPHAN in meat, in the caffine in coffee chocholate. Give a little kid three redbulls in the evening and see ehat happened.... it gets the kid tweeeeked, unless of course the child had a high tolerance from all the sugar alread in their diet.... it all drugs mate...

ps. check out this site for info on drug/culture
erowid.org
theres a LOT of great info there

 

hemp doesnt come from the same plant you smoke, thats what im trying to say.

read up http://www.gametec.com/hemp/hemp.mj.html

 

well, I sympathise with the guy who started this thread, (I dont smoke drink or do drugs). I have an idea!! Make or find t shirts that say 'no to drugs' and make sure you're always wearing one. This is one way of making them think.

In fact, I'm going to do that!