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Marijuana is its own special category, but club drugs (which for some reason include date rape drugs), inhalants and steroids are all in a "miscellaneous" category together?

Also, note all the ridiculous drug propaganda lies.

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[-] Ballistic_86@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago

The “gateway” drug thing was taught to me through DARE in the 90s. But has been confirmed propoganda for decades. Calling Cannabis (marijuana is not the proper name) a “gateway” drug is like saying water or air are “gateway” drugs. Sure, a crack head has probably smoked weed, but that isn’t what got them into crack.

I would guess that these materials are, either, very old or they categorize cannabis differently because it is so common. It doesn’t help that it is illegal in half the country and legal in the other half. So any state with cannabis not, at least, decriminalized will still have the talking points for the 1930s.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Thankfully, she knows from her father, who uses cannabis medicinally, that it is not a "gateway drug." Especially since the pain I am using it to treat now was one which a doctor originally tried and failed to treat by throwing multiple opioids at it and I'm not doing fentanyl today despite that. Two days of withdrawal was a bitch though.

[-] Ballistic_86@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I’m glad to hear you are off the opioid train. Have lost family members to it and my father is currently been on them for years. I tried to get him on the THC train, he even has a medical card, but he claims to not like the effects. I live in a recently legal state so I’m waiting until I can show him a store with a wide variety to try. I know there is some strain that will help with his pain and suffering without the effects he didn’t like.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

I'm luckier than others in that I hate the effects of opioids, so unless it is actually doing some pain killing (fentanyl did wonders when I was in the ER with kidney stones), I just wouldn't want it in my system.

But I also know that there are plenty of people it does work for who use it because they are legitimately in pain and either were hooked on them by a doctor and can't get off or just can't afford an alternative other than to score something illegally to solve their pain issues due to our capitalist healthcare system.

I realize you have to simplify things for kids sometimes, but this is not the way to do it.

[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Are you sure you're taking enough?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Taking enough what, weed or opioids?

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

I'm begging everyone to watch the intro script of Reefer Madness, its honestly comedy gold how horribly its aged

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Seriously. How undereducated is the general population to still be willfully ignorant that "marijuana" is literally BS Spanish "Mary Jane" and not what anyone prior to the utter failure that still is the "War on Drugs" has ever called any part of the plant? FFS. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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