A reader of English Women’s Weekly (May 2006) writes in to tell how marijuana ruined her child, and that she’s trying to get the government to re-classify pot. Seems her “stunningly beautiful” (aren't they always?) daughter was being bullied at school, had low self esteem, did not like her appearance, suffered depression and was close to an eating disorder. She also smoked pot “2-3 times per week”. The mother says pot was responsible for all her daughter’s woes and wants it bumped back up to a class B rating (with heroin and cocaine).
I’m not a pot activist -I don’t normally go for activism, it’s a lot of work and it’s never wise to give away your position – and I feel uncomfortable agreeing with the government but this is not a pro-marijuana argument as much as a furthering of my already existing anti-idiot argument.
This girl was clearly messed up long before she got hold of a joint. If she hadn’t started smoking pot she’d have started pulling out her eyelashes instead, or puking up her tea every afternoon, or making a million tiny cuts up and down her arms, or fucking anything that moved. All self-destructive and all due to her psychological pain, not the cause of it.
This woman cannot face the hard task of unraveling her daughter’s over-wrapped brain out of fear of finding herself in there, so she attacks the easy target. “If it weren’t for the devil weed, we’d all be out on a picnic now celebrating our perfect life.” If the poor lass had took to bashing herself with a hammer would this woman now want hammers classified as an intoxicant? - “Pssst, I just got a shipment of ball-peens in from Czechoslovakia…drop forged, case hardened, good shit.”
The point is you can’t go banning things just because someone misused it. The KGB killed a guy with a poisoned umbrella, yet years later we are free to buy umbrellas with abandon. You need to tackle why they abused it, the circumstances involved, the mucky grey slop of the human psyche.
And if you are going to do that, I recommend you smoke a joint first - and have a hammer handy.
3 comments:
i too support the anti-idiot stance.
the girl was fucked three ways to the weekend, weed didn't do that.
personally i think that the wacky tabacc-y should be not only legalizzed, but distributed amongst the dregs of the populace. see, if you work at say Mcdonalds your life sucks. you hate your job, an you do it badly. but if we supply these people with a steady supply of weed they woudl become passive, calm. we could leave them making minimum wage in these positions for years, hell decades. meanwhile, those who choose no to partake (or to do so reasonably) would clime the latter without idiotic-impeadment. because the idiots would abuse the weed till they became stationary.
I too like to buy umbrellas with Gay Abandon, who is a neighbour of mine. Actually, no; his name is Abadon. Either way, we have a good umbrella-buying session once every fortnight or whenever we're free.
When I'm not buying umbrellas, I'm screaming with rage at the idiots like this woman you speak of, who will blame everything but their own parenting skills for their children's misfortune. Recently there was a simliar campaign by a lady in England whose child was murdered in what the media dubbed a Manhunt-copycat style. Manhunt is a PS2 video game. This lady was aghast that her son would have been exposed to such a game, despite the fact that the game was clearly rated 18+ and her child shouldn't have been playing it in the first place. Instead of asking herself what she'd been doing instead of supervising her son's leisure time, she lauched a campaign against the publishers of the game, whinging about how it was unsuitable entertainment for 14 year olds. Oh fucking re-he-heally? Is that why it's RATED 18+ ON THE FRONT COVER?
Ahem.
So, yeah. I know what you're on about.
exile: There's a ladder?
Bad Word Lady: I grew up watching Daffy Duck. At no point did I ever think I could take a shotgun blast to the face and all that would happen was my beak would spin around to the back.
nobody is teaching kids fucking common sense. Except us.
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