Floozie Scooter Skank wrote:
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I've called DARE activists liars to their face in front of Best Buy when they told me pot ruins people's lives (that's my biggest objection to the program: it puts marijuana on the same level as crack or heroine, which is dishonest beyond words).
as much as I hate to admit this .... I'm in 100% agreement on this one.
Criminalizing marijuana use is far right conservative propaganda.
Yet alcohol and tobacco is legal.
How many angry violent stoners are out there?
Zero
How many cases of liver failure due to marijuana use?
Zero
How many cases of lung cancer from marijuana were there?
Zero
Its not just about criminalizing to me. Honestly, I think all drugs should be de-criminalized (my body, my decision), but I'm fine with them being illegal for children (as they all are, including alcohol and tobacco). My problem is this mind-set we have that we can scare children into doing what we want by exagerrating and outright lying to them, rather than educating them. And the problem is, kids know when we're lying, and so rather than learning the bad information we want to give them, they don't learn anything at all...and we hand over our society to another generation who doesn't know how to run it properly.
The same is true with sex education. We need to stop talking down to kids. Recently they found that teen sex can be reduced with "abstinence focused" sex ed, and the right is trying to spin it as "abstinence only," when the two are totally different programs. "Abstinence focused" still discusses birth control options, and emphasizes waiting until the time is right for you, over waiting until marriage (because, naturally, everyone has exactly the same value system

).
But no, the right can't stand the thought of children actually being given the truth.