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<blockquote data-quote="Styles420" data-source="post: 1724872" data-attributes="member: 149996"><p>People are, by nature, rebellious - the more someone tells us we can't do something, the more a part of us wants to do it. That's why you hear all the stories about Catholic school girls cutting loose and becoming wilder than most, because they're so repressed in their youth. There are times where a verbal warning will keep someone out of harm's way, but more often we just have to put our hands on the stove once (we won't do it twice!) The best lessons in life, the ones that stick with us the most, are the ones learned the hard way. Tell a kid to wear his helmet every time he goes for a bike ride, and he'll resent you for "nagging" him. But let him go out one time, and fall and hit his head, and suddenly you don't even have to mention it to him anymore - he remembers the pain of his head hitting the pavement.</p><p></p><p>The trick is to let people teach themselves to <em>want</em> to do things the right way. If they never have a chance to experience the pitfalls of the wrong way, then they will never truly understand <strong><em>why</em></strong> it's the wrong way. There are life lessons where you obviously don't want them to learn first hand, of course - "If you shoot yourself in the head, you'll die" would be one extreme case. For those, they usually get the message by hearing about someone else who did it (or common sense, for my example <img src="http://gbatemp.net/vanilla/emoticons/laugh.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />)</p><p></p><p>The other side of it is gov't propaganda - marijuana isn't nearly as bad as they want us to believe (it's a hell of a lot better and safer than alcohol). Marijuana alone will never kill you - you can't overdose on it. It doesn't cause blackouts or destroy organs (smoking it isn't the only way to use it - and if you smoke it with a vaporizer, you don't inhale the tars and plant materials that could cause cancer the way cigarettes do). It has been made illegal due to political motivations. For example, Du Pont Chemical company lobbied against it - because it was grouped with hemp (which contains only trace amounts of THC), and hemp rope is the strongest natural rope known to man. Du Pont had just developed their synthetic fiber rope, but it couldn't compete with something that was cheaper, stronger, and all-natural. Now the damage has been done - hemp is no longer the taboo it was, but everyone is so used to the synthetic replacements that they don't know what they're missing. </p><p></p><p>Now, compare the gov't scare tactics used to discourage marijuana use to the tactics used for the truly dangerous drugs like meth, cocaine and heroin - they kinda make pot seem just as bad. So when a kid grows up hearing all these messages, and either has a friend that tries pot, or tries it himself, he gets the wrong message - pot didn't do all the bad things the gov't said it would, so surely the gov't lied about the other drugs, too... right? Wrong, of course, but they don't figure that out until they've already tried them - but then they're hooked. And that's the only way pot could be construed as a gateway drug. If the public messages about it were honest, and the laws weren't skewed by outside agendas, I don't think the other drugs would be quite as bad in America. I doubt their use would stop altogether - there will always be those fools that are attracted to bigger, badder things.</p><p></p><p>If I had my way, the gov't would take a different approach entirely. I have two ideas, one much more radical than the other. I would at least like to see the legality of pot and alcohol switched (an alcoholic father is a huge motivating factor their <img src="http://gbatemp.net/vanilla/emoticons/nyanya.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />). On the more radical side, it would be interesting to see how things changed if the gov't said, "Do what you want." Then, it wouldn't be a social taboo, which attracts a lot of teenagers just on the principal. And anyone still dumb enough to get hooked on the hardcore drugs will eventually kill themselves off (we let alcoholics do it, why not meth heads?) True, some loved ones would be lost at first, but eventually the genetic predisposition to addiction would work its way out of the gene pool - things usually need to get worse before they can get better. And when that time comes, families would no longer be torn apart by drugs and alcohol, as there wouldn't be nearly as many whacked out nut jobs reproducing. It wouldn't be an overnight solution by any means, but there rarely is a quick solution to a problem this big.</p><p></p><p>So that's my rant on drugs <img src="http://gbatemp.net/vanilla/emoticons/wink.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Styles420, post: 1724872, member: 149996"] People are, by nature, rebellious - the more someone tells us we can't do something, the more a part of us wants to do it. That's why you hear all the stories about Catholic school girls cutting loose and becoming wilder than most, because they're so repressed in their youth. There are times where a verbal warning will keep someone out of harm's way, but more often we just have to put our hands on the stove once (we won't do it twice!) The best lessons in life, the ones that stick with us the most, are the ones learned the hard way. Tell a kid to wear his helmet every time he goes for a bike ride, and he'll resent you for "nagging" him. But let him go out one time, and fall and hit his head, and suddenly you don't even have to mention it to him anymore - he remembers the pain of his head hitting the pavement. The trick is to let people teach themselves to [i]want[/i] to do things the right way. If they never have a chance to experience the pitfalls of the wrong way, then they will never truly understand [b][i]why[/i][/b] it's the wrong way. There are life lessons where you obviously don't want them to learn first hand, of course - "If you shoot yourself in the head, you'll die" would be one extreme case. For those, they usually get the message by hearing about someone else who did it (or common sense, for my example [img]http://gbatemp.net/vanilla/emoticons/laugh.gif[/img]) The other side of it is gov't propaganda - marijuana isn't nearly as bad as they want us to believe (it's a hell of a lot better and safer than alcohol). Marijuana alone will never kill you - you can't overdose on it. It doesn't cause blackouts or destroy organs (smoking it isn't the only way to use it - and if you smoke it with a vaporizer, you don't inhale the tars and plant materials that could cause cancer the way cigarettes do). It has been made illegal due to political motivations. For example, Du Pont Chemical company lobbied against it - because it was grouped with hemp (which contains only trace amounts of THC), and hemp rope is the strongest natural rope known to man. Du Pont had just developed their synthetic fiber rope, but it couldn't compete with something that was cheaper, stronger, and all-natural. Now the damage has been done - hemp is no longer the taboo it was, but everyone is so used to the synthetic replacements that they don't know what they're missing. Now, compare the gov't scare tactics used to discourage marijuana use to the tactics used for the truly dangerous drugs like meth, cocaine and heroin - they kinda make pot seem just as bad. So when a kid grows up hearing all these messages, and either has a friend that tries pot, or tries it himself, he gets the wrong message - pot didn't do all the bad things the gov't said it would, so surely the gov't lied about the other drugs, too... right? Wrong, of course, but they don't figure that out until they've already tried them - but then they're hooked. And that's the only way pot could be construed as a gateway drug. If the public messages about it were honest, and the laws weren't skewed by outside agendas, I don't think the other drugs would be quite as bad in America. I doubt their use would stop altogether - there will always be those fools that are attracted to bigger, badder things. If I had my way, the gov't would take a different approach entirely. I have two ideas, one much more radical than the other. I would at least like to see the legality of pot and alcohol switched (an alcoholic father is a huge motivating factor their [img]http://gbatemp.net/vanilla/emoticons/nyanya.gif[/img]). On the more radical side, it would be interesting to see how things changed if the gov't said, "Do what you want." Then, it wouldn't be a social taboo, which attracts a lot of teenagers just on the principal. And anyone still dumb enough to get hooked on the hardcore drugs will eventually kill themselves off (we let alcoholics do it, why not meth heads?) True, some loved ones would be lost at first, but eventually the genetic predisposition to addiction would work its way out of the gene pool - things usually need to get worse before they can get better. And when that time comes, families would no longer be torn apart by drugs and alcohol, as there wouldn't be nearly as many whacked out nut jobs reproducing. It wouldn't be an overnight solution by any means, but there rarely is a quick solution to a problem this big. So that's my rant on drugs [img]http://gbatemp.net/vanilla/emoticons/wink.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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