*steals idea*
I'm not even talking about the actual dangers of smoking it, but the fact that in its purest form, the taking of anything even mildly hallucinagenic is puerile.
RAMA
Well RAMA your opinion has merit and is noted. A lot of young people experiment with various drugs, just for kicks. That in itself is "puerile" (yeah I had to look that one up). But your whole reasoning crumbles after that, like ganja that has been over-dried.
I think that the main reason so many younger people play with hallucinogens and such, is because of the policy (in the US) of mis-education and non-education about these things. Interesting to note that Holland has much less of a problem with its youth than the US in this regard.
There is nothing intrinsically immature about smoking marijuana, in fact young people shouldn't smoke it. The association you have is not based on reality, but on cultural conditioning. It should be an
adult association, not "that's something kids do until they grow out of it".
This particular plant, as well as most of the other entheogens, have been companions of humanity forever. There are long, deep traditions that continue today having to do with their proper use. Marijuana does socialize enormously with repeated exposure. The more serious hallucinogens were never meant to be taken lightly. But, there is no proper education about this, they are just left as forbidden fruit, which does, on rare occasion, have tragic results.
It's all cultural. The US is all about encouraging, even structuring work days around the consumption of stimulants - coffee break - but an entheogen like marijuana is opposed for a reason. It really does help open the consciousness. Whoever "they" are, they don't want that. But it is far from immature. Required? Of course not. Nothing revealed is anything you hadn't already known. But there is great value in such revealation. It is a path less traveled, and we have the right to walk it.
