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Latest post Aug.13.2008 @ 8:24 am
My opinion
I just read a blog post on which I will make a tangential comment on here. Because it is a tangential comment, and not relevant to the original post except loosely, I'm putting it in my own blog rather than as a comment.
Question: When people smoke up and get high (excuse my lack of lingo, I'm not up-to-date with the current pot dictionary) why do they wonder why people who care for them want them to stop?
I ask from experience, as one of my closest friends was once a heavy, and is now an occasional, pot smoker. I know for myself, I wanted him to stop because he's different when he's high. Rather than the mature, intelligent, understanding, sweet human being I know and love, he turns into a giddy daredevil who has lost the ability to think straight.
Smoking up just seems to create another personality. After several years of watching various people smoke marijuana, I know this (I am now officially old ha!). YOU may like the personality, but it makes me wonder, are you so lacking in the courage to face the world without a screen? Is it really so difficult to be yourself? When someone cares for you, is it really that surprising that they want a real, honest, genuine relationship with you rather than a marijuana haze?
I realize that marijuana has largely been illegal through the years because of old racism, prejudice and the need for governing bodies to control substance use. I know that it is relatively harmless, possibly ranking with alcohol in effects. I've never heard of it being okay for someone to be drunk all day, although people seem to excuse being high all day.
Please excuse the old lady rant. It just seems to me that people are experiencing less and less genuine relationships and more and more altered states of being. You know that person who's absolutely awesome when they're drunk, but you hate when they're sober? I don't believe in those kinds of relationships. A friend, a lover, or any of the inbetween, people who ask you to stop or slow down just want the real you.
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