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Stupidity impairs judgement.

Nowadays, it seems like we live in a society that can't take responsiblity for its own actions. If a kid kills one of his classmates, we're automatically looking for something to blame it on. Let's forget about the crazy/stupid kid that pulled the trigger, it's gotta go deeper. Nobody is ever crazy anymore, or at least nobody wants to settle for crazy anymore. I mean, some psycho kids go out and kill 15 people at school, and the first thing they blame is the music they listen to, and the video games they play. Why can't we just settle for crazy anymore? Those kids were crazy. End of story. It wasn't their parents' faults, it wasn't the music or the video games. Millions upon millions of people are exposed to the same music and video games as those kids were, and they're doing just fine. There was a little extra something that pushed them over the edge. It's called being crazy.

And now, there's another issue that a lot of (ignorant) people might disagree with, and that is...

Marijuana. Marijuana, marijuana, marijuana. It seems like all of the people who have never done it consider it to be the grass from satan's garden, while all of the people that have done it are strong supporters of it, and heavily support the legalization/decriminalization of the naturally-growing substance.

I saw a commercial yesterday during the superbowl, pointing out that "marijuana impairs judgement". It showed two parents in the bathroom. Or maybe one parent. Anyway, they were with their teenage daughter, and she was taking a pregnancy test. It was positive. This is all marijuana's fault. Let's forget about lack of willpower, lack of responsibility, lack of common sense. I made the loudest "psssshhhh" sound I think I have ever made after seeing that commercial. I mean, here, we have a commercial denouncing marijuana, saying that it "impairs judgement", right after about twenty beer commercials, and right before about twenty more beer commercials. Are these beer commercials showing home pregnancy tests, denouncing beer because it "impairs judgement"? Nope, it encourages the mass consumption of the alcoholic horsepiss, with unfunny commercials that would appeal to the stupidest of stupid people. And teenagers. I guess alcohol doesn't impair judgement at all. Fucking hypocritical media.

This all goes down to what I was saying before. People aren't able to take responsibility for what they do anymore. Anybody that has smoked marijuana KNOWS that you still have the ability to think under the influence. You have the ability to make intelligent decisions. You are still conscious, and able to perceive everything that's around you. Marijuana is not heroin or crack, you do not hallucinate. You don't completely drop out of consciousness and run through yellow meadow with talking birds or rabbits or any of that shit. I would guarantee that many of you reading this have seen me stoned, and not even realized it. There are many legal substances that do much more damage to your body and perception, like alcohol. I've never seen a bloody fist-fight between people that were under the influence of marijuana, but I've definitely seen one between two drunk people. I've never seen somebody under the influence of marijuana put somebody through a wall, but I've seen a drunk person do it. Now, notice which one is legal, and which one is illegal.

I guess it's only suitable for a country that supports violence, though. As long as they keep people misinformed, the whole country can remain ignorant as to how bad marijuana really is. There seems to be a lot of that nowadays. Misinformation.

I'm sure that peoples' lives have been ruined because of drugs. I'm also sure that peoples' lives have been ruined because of alcohol, or marijuana. But going back to what I said before, people don't want to take responsibility for their own actions anymore. People say, "heroin ruined my life", almost as if a magical bag of smack appeared on their desk, and then it came to life and jumped into a spoon, where it automatically melted itself, and then automatically injected itself into a needle, and then the needle jumped up by itself and injected itself into that person's arm/toe/whatever. Heroin addicts asked for it. Just like any addict.

Addictions don't start by themselves. They need a catalyst for the reaction, and that is you. You need to start the addiction to have an addiction. One cigarette doesn't start a cigarette addiction. You need to smoke many cigarettes, you need to want to keep smoking them. If you don't want an addiction, you won't get an addiction. Once you're addicted though, it's your own damn fault.

It's easy to blame things on addiction. Sometimes I think that people become addicted to a substance just so they can blame their own personal failure on it. You may have heard me say this before, but drugs are a scapegoat for personal failure. People don't want to admit that they fucked their own life up, so let's blame it on the easiest thing to blame it on: drugs. That way, everybody will feel sorry for them, they'll go to rehab and clean up, and then get out again. Probably just to fuck their life up again. It's all about the responsibility thing I was talking about. People don't want to take responsibility for their own problems. It's always getting blamed on something.

I sound like some little rebellious teenager now, but I don't really care. You shouldn't believe everything that television, or the government tells you, because propaganda exists everywhere. Even when it's subtle, it still exists. Even in our great "free" country. Whenever you see something on television about somebody's "triumph over drug addiction" or anything like that, realize that these people made the original mistake of taking the drug in the first place. And they did it enough to actually form a habit and become addicted. It's their own fucking fault, and then they get commended for kicking the habit?

I just don't understand people.

Posted by at January 27, 2003 06:05 PM