bektehgreat:
geekandmisandry:
lieutenant-sapphic:
lieutenant-sapphic:
lieutenant-sapphic:
please please please don’t attack me for saying this but the normalisation of teenagers and college students smoking weed is becoming a problem
to elaborate, the other day i was visiting a college which has a bit of a reputation, as many colleges do, for having a lot of weed. and i mentioned one of my concerns for attending, which was the fact that if i inhale marijuana secondhand smoke, i have an asthma attack and physically can’t breathe. and i mentioned this to a couple prospective students and i both times got the reaction “it’s ok; you can just use edibles!” and i didn’t really say this at the time, but the fact is, i don’t want to. i don’t want to interact with weed at all in college, and—at least at my high school—that’s considered strange. and i honest-to-god believe that is majorly fucked up.
and here’s the thing. even expressing this sentiment is hard. because when i try to talk about the consequences of doing weed (yeah believe it or not there are some) or even my reasons for not wanting to do weed, people assume i believe myself to be morally better than someone who does do weed, and i don’t. i don’t feel superior to anyone, especially not for a reason as stupid as that. the thing is, i don’t want to use my asthma as an excuse for not wanting to vape, but i feel like i have to. i don’t want to use my asthma as an excuse for not wanting to smoke, but i feel like i have to. and i hate this aspect of the culture i’m in. i hate that i have to defend the position of “i don’t think eighteen-year-olds should smoke weed.” i hate that it’s considered normal—even cool—to consistently put recreational drugs in your body from ages 13-24.
since making this post i’ve been called a bitch and a narc, which i think really tells you something.
Drugs are…drugs, despite legal standing, they can be really intense and not everyone wants that experience. Stop being rude to people if they don’t want to do drugs, regardless of what it is or how cool you think it is.
This is literally like people who get pissed off at those who don’t wanna drink alcohol. They’re taking it like a personal attack.
Get a life??? Some people dont like drinking, some people dont like weed. It has nothing to do with you??? Stop making it about you???
(via wickyelham)