faz44max wrote:
people have been smoking weed for thousands of years and in some cultures it is ritualy smoked for worship and tradition and nothing in history has ever had anything bad to say about cannabis until now . what is the problem ?
I accept the media have “jumped on the bandwagon” a bit but I think there are wider more complex issue than just “babylon media chant down ganja man” idealism..
I don’t think you can compare the usage of an peace-loving Asian holy man with that of a youth from Berkshire who was already fascinated by violence and hate and who binged on strong skunk every day but then stopped suddenly before the incident..
From my experiences weed is used by a lot of angry people to calm down their anger; but it just dulls the emotions rather than solving any problems in their life. As soon as the usage is stopped all those supressed emotions come back.
Not everyone is angry enough to suddenly kick off at their friends and stab them, but some people are, and some like to dominate others.
This sort of thing happens a lot more often but it usually just ends up in a fight between young men which is seen as normal behaviour for lads until someone gets hurt or killed..
What is happening with drugs in Britain isn’t worship or tradition, its pure hedonism.
People take as much as they can until they either start feeling ill or (more commonly) are pulled up for it by some form of authority (either parents or cops) and there is a backlash of anger when/if they are made to cut down or stop.
And when the mood swings that drugs can cause are mixed with an increasingly dysfunctional and violent street culture where young men feel violence is OK, tragedies like this are going to keep happening.
People say E (pills) are the “love drug” but a while back I posted a news report on here where a young lad had been taking pills, he saw another chap who had been rude to his sister and ran across the street and stabbed this guy to death whilst pilled up… he even said in Court pills made him a bit “violent” but still carried on taking them…
getting back to cannabis – we all had a chance to create a more idealistic self-regulated “cannabis culture” (FFS 10 years ago there were national papers calling for legalisation) – and the stoners fucked it up.
People smoked too much, got too fucking lazy (or suffered mental problems), and criminal gangs took back the power from the “hippy back room grower” types.
that said I don’t think drugs are the problem, its an increasingly violent world, and a lack of values and individual users lacking self control to stop when taking substances is making them do negative rather than positive things…
