Todays guest post comes from an anonymous author whose wants to be known as J. He contacted Marijuana Addiction Help after noting some interesting observations amongst his friends and folks at school and wanted to write a guest post. Here it is, unedited for your reading pleasure. Thanks J. for your input! I think his observations are dead on insofar as how our culture polarizes usage of drugs and especially marijuana. If you’ve got any thoughts for JF, please leave him a comment here on this post and he will see it and try to respond to you.
Something I’ve noticed growing up in todays world is that marijuana, or weed as it’s more commonly called amongst the people around here who use it, is that it’s considered really cool to smoke pot. It’s almost to the point where straight up weed addiction is what some idiots think make them cool. I’ve noticed for instance, that some people at my school seem to wrap their entire identity around how much weed they smoke.
I will admit, I tried getting high once before (actually more than once!), and it was OK – it wasn’t the greatest thing ever, nor was it all that bad. It just was what it was. But it’s nothing to get so crazy over as to wear “Chronic” shirts and write poems in English class about smoking (or god forbid, the ever popular “Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized” essay paper – gag!) and being addicted to the green stuff.
There’s a no so small crew in particular of so called stoners at my high school who I think are purposely trying to get addicted to weed. I swear, it’s like the goal is for them to wake up one day after smoking daily for months, take a weed addiction test they find online, and then happily check off all symptoms for weed addiction one by one on a chart while listening to some Cypress Hill.
This type of identity characterization or drug culture worship is just plain silly. I wish I could start the next sentence with “For one thing, no one cares..”, but the sad truth is, a lot of people do care. This group of kids are not outcastes. They’re what you’d probably call “the cool kids”. They wear nice clothes, have lots of friends, buy their etextbooks on their fancy iphones, and go to lots of parties on the weekends.
On the other hand, there’s even a few “straight edge” kids at my school who have their identity wrapped up in the opposite problem, that of being entirely drug free. (Some won’t even drink caffeine or eat meat. What this has to do with drugs, I do not know!)
Anyway, it’s strange growing up in a culture that seems to only allow for extremes. On one hand, you can be a stoner, on the other, a straight edge kid. What about the rest of us normal people in between? Where does our story fit in?
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