Why parents hate marijuana

in marijuana •  7 years ago 

I've wondered this my whole life, if marijuana is relatively harmless, why do parents hate it when they let us do many other things that are worse for you. They disregard facts of how it can help you and only look at the negatives, picturing everyone who smokes a "low life" and I don't even think it's the effects that they care about, if you think about it , if THC was put into a pill form and sold to help patients with pain, parents would see it as a medicine, but because it is smoked , it gives a bad view on it , comparing it to cigarettes as they are very bad for you.

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  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

Yes it's very ridiculous that's why I'm trying to help please upvote!

Well, doing it as a teenager can trigger schizophrenia, depression, BPD, and a few other mental illnesses. Inhaling smoke is also pretty bad for you. If you find yourself in a bad mood over 50% of the time, seek help. It's a depressant, like alcohol, and that's no good for a developing brain.

A possible reason is because they base their morality on the culture they grew up in, and that culture only promotes the use of alcohol and caffeine (hypocritical, but such is life.) Most people don't bother developing their own opinion on things they don't care about.

Lastly, people don't always agree with the idea of them doing drugs, and morally accept it as a crutch to survive the modern world. Along those lines, they don't want to think their children do drugs, because it implies they failed at protecting the innocence of youth. Also, they have to start explaining moral grey areas, which most people have a hard time thinking about at all.

Lastly, it's a sign of one's child entering the parts of reality a parent can't save them from, where the life of the kid is in the kid's hands. The chance that their kid will fail at life is the nightmare that keeps a lot of parents up at night. This makes parents try to micromanage their kid's life, which rarely results in anything good.

Well I do understand it is bad to inhale smoke , yes but there is so many other ways to consume, and I was trying to point out that why aren't parents more worried about harmful things such as opiates

Aren't they?
Most parents have moral qualms against their children on any drugs. They have moral qualms of themselves being on any drugs. Many people feel it modifies the experience of being themselves, and that's not a good thing.

If your parents are okay with alcohol but not marijuana, I'm afraid you've just come face to face with the hypocrisy of humanity. Yeah, it sucks. Good luck.

Medicine for what? That's the issue, there's a lot of people in denial that they raised kids who can't get through the day or overcome anxiety without a smoke. They just stare at you with this stupid blank look and fail to grasp that they fucked up at some point and ignored the fact that their kids grew up needing a joint to sit through the family dinner they're being subjected to.

That aside, on the other hand, it's the fact that unless you grow, you've got to get your weed from a dealer. And unless they're growing themselves and are pretty decent people, you know how that supply chain goes.

Yes true but that's why it should be legal and available, and not just to get high , such as CBD helps with so much and you don't have any really noticeable effects