<p>what do you think about it? sometimes i just want to do it once in a while to relax but then again would i screw me over? ive done it before on and off so i havent been addicted.</p>
<p>do you think doing it once a month is stupid?</p>
<p>No, I don't. It's a matter of priorities. I would not consider anyone's drug use (even of hard drugs) to be stupid unless it was interfering with priorities. Most often, it does - especially with the case of addiction, which I abhor - but this is not universally true, and I do not in any way look down upon the student who works hard and does well and occasionally tokes up with some friends to spend a night unwinding.</p>
<p>Furthermore, one night a month of smoking marijuana is almost certain to have no discernible effects for you.</p>
<p>What a coincidence! This thread was started a few hours after yours:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/507267-marijuana-causes-mental-illness.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-confidential-cafe/507267-marijuana-causes-mental-illness.html</a></p>
<p>Guys (and girls), the proper name is cannabis. That is its formal and scientific name.</p>
<p>If you want to use slang such as pot/reefers/weed/whatever, that is also fine.</p>
<p>DO NOT call it by the name marijuana, which was promoted by the Treasury Department in the 1930s to take advantage of public xenophobia and racism. Doing so would put you into the same camp. Marijuana is in no way a formal term, but ignorant journalists have nevertheless often use it in the press where "cannabis" should be used. To use the term "marijuana" is a clear exonym -- it might not have been in the 1900s when it was also just another slang term -- but no one except for culturally insensitive folks uses that term now.</p>
<p>galoisien, I like your posts, but this one is pretty dumb. Marijuana has long shed its originally racist connotations and become a synonym for cannabis. I support marijuana legalization in every way, but I'm not going to start calling it by a certain name exclusively (I use cannabis, marijuana, weed, etc. interchangeably) because in the 1930's some racist idiot (Anslinger) thought it would make people think worse of it.</p>
<p>agreed ^^^</p>
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<p>Among us youth yes.</p>
<p>But I think it would be very fun to lambast the older generation for racism every time they use the term, because to many of them anyway the term still bears connotations of "dangerous" minorities. </p>
<p>Once we successfully cleanse the older generation of such backward bigotry we can reintroduce the term among ourselves.</p>
<p>Completely agree with 1of42.</p>
<p>This has always been a dilemma</p>
<p>As a republican i love to smoke but cannot support criminals or illegal immigrants</p>
<p>This is where civil disobedience comes in, you know.</p>
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wth? that's one of the worst statements I've heard in a long time. First of all, it seems as though you are saying everybody of "the older generation" is a bigot. Secondly, it seems as though you are saying the only bigots that exist are of "the older generation."
Also, you need to specify what you mean by "older generation." I would say my parents are of an older generation because they're older (they're in their 50s). However, they are not of the generation from the 1930's.</p>
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<p>But they were influenced by the prejudice that flowed from that era.</p>
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First of all, it seems as though you are saying everybody of "the older generation" is a bigot. Secondly, it seems as though you are saying the only bigots that exist are of "the older generation."
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<p>In terms of racially-biased negative perception of cannabis use, most of it comes from the older generation, though not all of the older generation subscribes to it. For most older individuals however, "marijuana" is a racially-tainted word, and the only way to excise that racial bias is to ostracise the use of that word itself, at least when the older generation uses it, at least till it can be reborn.</p>
<p><3Weed<3. I know some people that smoke every day and get 4.0s and it doesn't interfere with anything. I know other people that can't handle it.</p>
<p>Once a month is nothing, though. If that's all you're thinking of doing, don't worry about it.</p>
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so if they're prejudiced because of the previous generation, then so are we, by the same logic. I've since talked to my parents about it, and my dad remembered the origin of the term marijuana, but said he hadn't thought about it in a long time, and my mom had never heard that. I'm pretty sure they don't think of it in racial terms.</p>
<p>Weed's fine. I don't smoke, but go ahead.</p>