Well I just smoked a joint, and was thinking about whenever I was a kid what I thought about weed; after about an hour of sitting in the same spot blazed I realised it would be great for everyone to share their old perceptions. So here's mine anyway:
I used to think that if you smoked weed you hallucinated hard and you thought you were flying with unicorns, which of course doesn't even happen even on a average acid trip, also thought you had major withdrawels and come downs. I also thought that if you smoked weed you would surely get lung cancer after about 10 joints and speaking about joints I used to think you bought them in cigarette packets already rolled for you. Even after all the education from DARE in school I still didn't really oppose any drugs because I barely listened and only heard the effects and thought they sounded pretty cool.
[QUOTE=Killzone(Dylan);44101038]Even after all the education from DARE in school I still didn't really oppose any drugs because I barely listened and only heard the effects and thought they sounded pretty cool.[/QUOTE]
A small siderant: You just managed to sum up exactly why direct educational initiatives such as DARE not only don't work, but are extremely counter-productive lol. The best type of propaganda is the subtler, social everyday type as it allows kids to absorb the anti-mentality without them even knowing it, and when they are adults they will be fully-fledged moralists based on these early planted seeds.
But anyway, as for your question; I never really had a very strong stance on weed as a child, or never thought about it at least. In line with the general attitude here it was a dark, mysterious subject with negative connotations I avoided thinking about, that is until my early teens when I started researching about drugs out of curiosity, which was approximately the same time we were taught about them in school. Recognizing the horribly biased and downright false "facts" they gave us in the biology classes, it paved way for a distrusting/criticizing stance towards authority and official education in general which persists to this day, but that's a bit beside the point.
People on drugs are losers, but once i grew up you find out the world is not black and white, and that people are people. I also didn't understand the concept of drugs as kid.
Deathsticks from Star Wars, that's about it
Honestly I didn't understand drugs until about 9 months ago when I started coming here
I had no clue about how anything besides stimulants worked or what effects anything had
I don't know. I suppose at one point I would have disapproved of what I've become. Now of course I don't disapprove.
The other day, after a tab of acid, I wondered to myself when the turning point came, when I came to approve.
I don't think it was something I gave a whole lot of thought. I always thought it was weird that you could be punished for something that you do to your own body (anti-authoritarian at a young age or something).
I guess some of the major things I've learned are that 1) Pretty much every drug is considerably safer than portrayed in the media and 2) The majority of drug users aren't problem users and are most of them are really chill people
I thought that if you do drugs, you'd either end up in jail or dead.
well, everyone is gonna end up dead eventually :D
Oh shit. I was bad. I didn't even comprehend what drugs were. I thought that all drugs showed up in these evil colored packets that were clearly marked "drugs" or "marijuana" on the side. Then people bought and sold these packets in the rain, at night, under bridges, with streetlights overhead. People brought these packets home, and no matter what drug it was, they smoked out of a dirty pipe, then took used needles and injected something into their veins. After injection, they layed back and got sick for a few hours, until they went out the next night to continue feeding their violent, dirty addiction.
I also imagined that most drug users had to be packing heat to buy drugs, because cops were going to bust down the door and deliver a salvo of bullets into anyone who was caught with the offending substance.
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I had a very active imagination.
I don't think I really had an internal representation of doing drugs was like. I just carried the idea that no one really did drugs and those who did were losers who didn't hold good jobs or those sketchy kids who smoked cigs at school. I remember spewing bullshit to my friends online about how weed joints have 10x more tar and 10x more cancer causing than tobacco. But in the end I never thought what doing drugs was like, if anything I thought it was an individual thing where you did it by yourself and you would do nothing but the drug, like all the fun is in the drug and not doing it while playing games or hanging with people. I don't think I could comprehend the idea of an altered state until I got drunk for the first time when I was 18. Then my first year of college, or rather a little before that I joined facepunch and found this place. I thought about weed again and kinda changed my mind over the course of my senior year in high school. I don't know why either, I'm not sure if I realized what they taught us was all bullshit or that I decided to look it up on the internet but my friends and I decided to then try weed for the first time together our freshmen year at uni. My friend bought for us and we never looked back, great time.
[QUOTE=Mindtwistah;44101356]A small siderant: You just managed to sum up exactly why direct educational initiatives such as DARE not only don't work, but are extremely counter-productive lol. The best type of propaganda is the subtler, social everyday type as it allows kids to absorb the anti-mentality without them even knowing it, and when they are adults they will be fully-fledged moralists based on these early planted seeds.[/QUOTE]
Fun fact about the DARE program actually. It increased drug use. The idea was that if a childhood authority figure such as a cop told kids how bad drugs were, they wouldn't use them. This was true up until kids became teenagers and started hating cops and acting against them. Cop tells you to not do drugs, and you hate cops, what do you do? Drugs.
Well they did remove weed from the younger curriculum because kids at that age were more likely to drink or smoke tobacco and didn't even think about illicit drugs, thus when they 'taught' kids about weed they were instead introducing it to them and became curious.
I didn't even really think about drugs did, until about the age of 15 I didn't even consider doing drugs and didn't even consider the effects they had on people.
I'm currently high as I'm typing this.
If I recall correctly, I didn't give two shits about drugs back then
Never thought about it seriously.
When I was around the ages of 9 or 10 me and my cousins gathered around the table to question what the "stinky green stuff" that our parents always smoke together is.
and we all knew that they smoked together, because we'd try to get their attention and they'd talk to us for a while, do adult child talk, you know. Then all of a sudden forcing us to go out and play, locking the door for a while, all you'd hear is coughing from inside the room, people bullshitting, and just smell something funny from under the door.
To us, it was all normal, we never cared or even fucking questioned jack shit.
I do recall being aware that the stuff was illegal, but I never seen them as bad people, they seemed like the average fucking parents off the telly, minus the religion.
Later on when I was in 6th grade, I actually started paying attention to the shitty slide shows our counselor would show us, and a lot of the time it was teaching us about certain drugs, their effects, and what they looked like. Me, eh, two fucks weren't given that day, I didn't feel any negativity or positivity towards the subject, just neutral.
I always had a viewpoint as Marijuana being like tobacco, or a beer.
Just something that adults did, sometimes others didn't approve of their pears social activity.
I started smoking weed when I turned 14, due to curiosity, some would say peer pressure because my friends kind of did convince to get stoned, but if it wasn't for me, we wouldn't have gotten anything to smoke c;
I remember thinking you smoked acid and thinking acid was also heroin? I mainly just remembered that "it's bad" and not any actual specifics when it came to drugs.
I used to think that your brain literally melted when you smoked marijuana, and that you instantly became addicted. I also thought heroin made you hallucinate and go nuts like you're on PCP.
For the longest time, all that I had ever been told was that drugs are things bad people do, that they become addicted to it, that it hurts you, damages your health, and that it will end up killing you.
So I never understood why people would do them. They straight up said that doing drugs hurts you, damages your health, gets you addicted, and finally kills you. Even now I can't see why someone would want to do drugs, if that is what drugs are.
Ha, i actually won a medal in 5th grade for having the best DARE essay. I was never really like "ugh drugs are bad" i was just indifferent. When my best friend started smoking, i would tease him, assuming that he was tripping balls. Then he got me to try it when i was 16 and now i cant understand how it took me so long
As a kid, I had no perception of drugs. I had no idea what to think of them so I didn't create an opinion about them.
I was really harsh about tobaco, I used to say I'd never smoke in my entire life because it'd give me cancer and it is bad for my lungs.
Back when I was 12, my perception dramatically changed. I came to know that some things indeed are bad for you and your health, but life is there to make fun and not to follow a strickt book of rules.
A friend asked me if I wanted to take a puff of a cigaret and I said that 1 puff couldn't hurt.
2 weeks after that puff, we went canoeing and I got an entire cigaret offered.
I didn't know what to say so I just said yes. This is where it all went wrong :v:.
A few weeks before I'd be turning 13, a friend and I smoked a nice joint.
We were baked as fuck, I was so baked that everything felt like pudding.
Though I'd already smoked a joint and was addicted to tobacco, I still really didn't like alcohol.
For some reason, I didn't care about my entire body except for my brain.
I avoided everthing that'd hurt/damage my brain.
When I now look back at all this, I really kind of ask myself where this young me is now.
(Wrote while experiencing after affects of DPH, damn XTC dealers who don't know the difference between the two)
(I still don't feel any perception of 3D depth, it's like my laptop is 10 meters away while on top of my nose at the same time.)
Clarity is a narc
Shiiiii wrong thread
As a kid I thought only shady and dirty people, who failed at life and want to escape into a dream world, take drugs.
I pretty much thought you inject all of them and that all drugs give you high tier hallucinations - even weed :v:
To be honest though, I didn't get a wrong perception of drugs because of adults around me or school,
a lot of movies generalize drug use and exaggerate their effects
I never took what the anti-smoking/anti-drug people said, because even from a young age it sounded like bullshit
I used to think there was only physical addiction and it instantly became mental addiction thus changing who you are forever once you tried something.
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Of course I didn't really know the difference.
I smoked weed when I was like 11 and greened out so bad. I told my mom I had to get my stomach pumped.
[editline]10th March 2014[/editline]
I wasn't a smart kid.
From what I remember my view on drugs was ALWAYS the same, and same as my friends.
"They look cool and I gotta try them all." (well maybe excluding heroin and alike :v:).
That kid still lives and is surely going to pursue his dream.
I semi regularly fantasize about what if I'd had my current attitude back when DARE came through my school - not that I remember DARE to any extent.
Oh man imagine talking back to the cop telling us about the horrors of weed
always thought drugs were the epitome of disobeyment
remember seeing an upperclassmen in highschool talking about weed and getting butthurt mad
me and my homie promised each other we would never smoke weed, 100% definitely never going to happen we'd never do any drugs ever
1 year later smokeweedeveryday420blazeit
I thought the reason people got addicted was because they tasted THAT GOOD. For some reason I couldn't comprehend that people would take them for the effects it gave them, rather than the taste :v:
I didn't receive much that much anti-drug propaganda, when I went to recreation camp when I was in 4th grade and was asked by a counselor on whether I would do drugs I said yes if the doctor says so having no idea that he meant abusing and using illegal drugs. I did have half a year of health class which definitely tried to scare people about drugs.
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