What did they teach you at school about weed?

Hey all, do you remember what they taught you at school about weed?

I don't. But I'm sure they said that weed was bad.

With so many studies done on weed nowadays, thus, with so much more evidence of what weed really does, it would be interesting to hear what (true) things they teach students around the world.
I think the only other thing I can remember from health education class was about dopamine levels, and how a person got addicted, (but that's more to do with hard drugs, not weed)
and also how hard drugs put a person at risk of overdose when they build a resistance to the elevated dopamine levels, or something like that.



um? so a person smokes crack (for example) they eventually become addicted, and they need to take more because... um?.... ah F*** it who cares.

I am an older guy and what they taught us about weed in schools was straight up Reefer Madness scare tactics.

We were told it would make you think you could fly and you would attempt to jump off buildings.
You would hallucinate uncontrollably.
You would lose complete control of your bodily functions.
You would become an addict.

The list goes on and on.

I personally think that was one of the biggest problems they had. When people actually tried MJ, they knew what we were taught in schools was hyperbole and propoganda. I think that led people to try other, much harder drugs as well.
If they were lying about MJ, why weren't they lying about Cocaine and Heroin?

Yep, absolutely althor, that's exactly what happened to me (well sort of) When I tried weed, it was mostly all good! I mean, there were the down sides if I smoked it too much. Depression, paranoia and all of that nasty stuff, but other than that as long as you didn't over do it, it was fine!


Also, people are plain stupid! whether you drink alcohol, smoke meth, smoke weed, what you decide to do while you are under the influence of a drug is purely up to you! (the person) well, sort of.
It is not the drug alone that makes a meth addict kill someone (for example).Although it very well could be the drug that causes a person to become overly agitated and then decide to kill someone, but what we do as people depends on MANY more things than just some adverse effects of a recreational drug, even if it is a hard drug.
That's just my opinion, I consider it fact, though.

Highlowazupkush said:

Yep, absolutely althor, that's exactly what happened to me (well sort of) When I tried weed, it was mostly all good! I mean, there were the down sides if I smoked it too much. Depression, paranoia and all of that nasty stuff, but other than that as long as you didn't over do it, it was fine!


Also, people are plain stupid! whether you drink alcohol, smoke meth, smoke weed, what you decide to do while you are under the influence of a drug is purely up to you! (the person) well, sort of.
It is not the drug alone that makes a meth addict kill someone (for example).Although it very well could be the drug that causes a person to become overly agitated and then decide to kill someone, but what we do as people depends on MANY more things than just some adverse effects of a recreational drug, even if it is a hard drug.
That's just my opinion, I consider it fact, though.

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With some drugs you have contorl over yourself but there ARE ones that make you see things tha are so real, and feel things that you can't tell arent actually happening to a point where you will do things you dont even know you are doing. Like jumping out windows or hiding from monsters or killing someone. Luckily, weed isnt one of those lol.

Oh, also, in school I was never taught much about weed at all besides lumping it in with al other drugs but i was never told anything specific.

EverythingsHazy said:

With some drugs you have contorl over yourself but there ARE ones that make you see things tha are so real, and feel things that you can't tell arent actually happening to a point where you will do things you dont even know you are doing. Like jumping out windows or hiding from monsters or killing someone. Luckily, weed isnt one of those lol.

Oh, also, in school I was never taught much about weed at all besides lumping it in with al other drugs but i was never told anything specific.

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Yeah like that bath salt shit turning hop heads into zombies

For me use is ok.
It's the abuse that I don't need.
It makes me have less weed.

Pretty much nothing. Cannabis is a drug, all drugs are bad.

School for me was fucking stupid.

We had a cop show up and draw pictures on the chalk board showing how marijuanna covers your brain in green slime.

Yeah, fucking literally

Question is: Are they teaching the kids at school right now (and in the future) factual information? or are they STILL teaching them crap?

Because I still meet allot of people who think weed is an extremely bad thing. it really annoying because some of those people have no problem drinking booze, yet they think that Mary jane is like? the devils poo!?
One thing is clear though, every time that someone tells me that they think weed is bad, its obvious that they've been taught to believe so, and its rare that such a person has actual personal experience.


Personally I have been smoking weed for ten years. (minus the four years I wasn't smoking it) and in those ten years iv learnt a few things:

• Whether you enjoy your self while high can depend on many things! EG: If you're around people you don't really like (maybe you THINK you like them, or maybe you want them to like you), chances are you wont enjoy your self as much as you would if you were around like-minded / nice people. Then again Iv been around people who didn't like me at first, but then weed bought us together and mended the boundaries.
• A little bit of weed is ok.
• A little bit more weed can be ok, but once again that depends! Personally, Compared to snoop dogg I can't smoke that much weed. Especially now after all these years; If I smoke too much my memory has the tendency of turning into a sift! stuff just falls right through!
  
  
• A lot more weed may cause problems, depending on YOU.
• LOTS AND LOTS of weed (in my case) is just bad.
• According to the internet, weed temporarily inhibits your ability to absorb information (I'm guessing that's why you lose your memory)
• It pays to be healthy! What does being healthy have to do with weed? well in my opinion, weed degrades your mind a little bit. You're mind is probably able to bounce back after a while, but the healthier you are, the easier it can bounce back. That's just what I think!

I don't think many people who visit this forum DON'T smoke weed, so I'm assuming that all people who are reading this have either smoked it, or do smoke it, in which case you will probably know at least partially what I'm talking about.

I know first hand that kids in UK schools are being taught that all drugs are bad.

However there is a lesson where the kids create computer documents about the different effects each drug has on the body and how "bad" each one is for you etc.


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Yeah, where I live people think that weed is just as bad as all of the other drugs out there.

I've struggled many years with addiction, and being at war with yourself is probably the scariest thing there is. Overdosing on cocaine is, well quite frankly overrated.

But it kills me knowing not only how non-detrimental weed is, but how it can actually be instrumental in increasing the quality of someone's life.

Personally, taking a hit of some chronic in the day and a couple hits at night has done more for me in terms of staying away from shit that can kill me than anything else ever has.

As far as I'm concerned, weeds one of the things that's saved my life. And I'm not afraid of God judging me on that one.

Id be interested to find out exactly what they're saying about Marijuana.

Highlowazupkush said:

Id be interested to find out exactly what they're saying about Marijuana.

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Its the gateway drug, smoke it once next thing you know your gonna be mixing cough syrup with grape and orange soda

My god. I remember one thing from child hood PROFOUNDLY. That was that kids aren't stupid. They're treated as stupid, and in fact they may not be able to understand all things as well as adults because their minds are still developing or whatever the case for that is, but they're actually very capable to understanding many things with (imo) a high level of intelligence.

I actually reckon adults could learn allot from children!

I for one was not fooled when they said that weed was a gateway drug. (I don't think many other people in my class were either).. yep, they told us weed was a gateway drug as well.

In a way you could say weed is a gateway drug, except that? weed is barely as damaging as some of the other drugs, so for the people who're in power to tell the kids that weed is on the same level as hard drugs is plain retarded. (... *sigh* Flipping retards.)

They didn't teach me much, I was usually getting high somewhere else.

LSD is bad because it makes you realize the Multinational Corporate State is a crock of shit.

Anyway, it appears that Beer was my gateway drug to pot, which was my gateway drug to LSD which was my gateway drug to mushrooms which was my gateway drug to DMT which was my gateway drug to beer.

drugs are bad, mkay?

all my teachers kinda strayed away from the topic because they knew EVERY kid in school smoked and knew all her shit was BS. she wasn't tryna get jumped lmao.

Dare in middleschool, and went to a catholic all boys school... Weed was not talked about or any drugs for that matter... Shit if you didn't wear a belt automatic 2 hours detention, anything illegal you where expelled.. No refunds.

they told me that drugs where horrible, that you would lose your life, you would end up spending all your money and time on drugs. you would go to prison when they caught you because no one gets away without it. they told me ifi smoked weed i was a piece of shit and no one would ever want to be near me or want to do anything with me because of pot. it turned out these were the people hurting me the worst and my life became a spiraling sabotage of shit. my life would be lesser for smoking weed. told me if i wasnt a clean kid then i would end up going to hell for smoking weed.at the same time implying if i didnt follow their rules and become one of their crusaders against drugs i was wrong for it.even if i didnt toke. those people against weed are all nut jobs who where crackheads trying to make peoples lives harder for nothing.by all means, stomp a junkies needle, and take out the meth head, spike the coke heads dope with sugar(dont forget to give him a lemon to squirt in his eye and a shot of whiskey).