Quote Originally Posted by medicinal

What's really frightening is that when teens realize they've been deceived about marijuana, they tend to disregard warnings about the very real dangers of hard drugs like cocaine and heroin. It's this latter scenario that ultimately trumps The Purple Brain as the real horror show.


And that's what scares me.

Growing up in the 90s, having D.A.R.E. screaming bullshit down my throat the entire ride through public education.. And then having said "Okay. I'll give it MY fair evaluation.".. Then I tried pot.. Saw how amazing of a plant it is, how beneficial it is to the human psyche.

It really, really, really made me question the warnings about other, harder drugs.

If Marijuana is to be considered a 'gateway drug', it's not because it is actually a 'gateway drug', but because the propaganda surrounding it is easily warded off and discarded, holding no water at all. And when you realize the propaganda was written for financial reasons, personal gain, and greed.. Then you begin to quesion if other drugs are the same way, alot of smoke and mirrors. I've seen far too many guys I've graduate with fall to cocaine, meth, and prescription pills. Not because they smoked pot, but because someone told them pot was bad, and they said "Well, if pot ISN'T bad, coke can't be bad either."

The system breeds ignorance, and the ignorance breeds loss. The loss breeds profits for those in power, breeds problems for the weak underclass. Allows those with money to override the poor. It's a spiral that NEEDS to end with our generation, the 20 year olds now. We're a violent generation, you can look at the years we came into maturity. Many school-violence tragedies, many murders by teenagers. Hell, if you add it up, the VT shootings a while back was done by someone in their mid-twenties. The generation of teenagers who grew up in the 90s are violent.

But for every part violent we are, we are equally smart. We are the generation that brought the internet into mainstream society, brough video games and high-tech gadgets.

We have to be the generation to stand up, raise our hands and say "This is all wrong. Not because I disagree, but because I see your flaws."

We have to.