Her honest explanation was better than anything I ever learned from D.A.R.E.
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I was actually part of the Red Ribbon era. D.A.R.E. was being phased out when I started elementary school.
I'm either old or dare kept coming back after being phased out. Both are probably true.
But yeah dare would just lie to kids about drugs and tell them to be annoying little shits who hide their parents cigs and try to get their parents to quit drinking. It turns out that just being honest about drugs to kids rather than sensationalizing them goes really far, and they trust you too. Honestly the biggest thing dare taught me as a kid was that cops lie.
It was the style at the time.
Because shows got a tax break for things like this.
That is the point of drugs, yes.
Exactly. I don't need to feel good, I just need it to work well enough for me to be a functioning adult.
Aside from making movies and gaming more interesting, I have never slept so well as I do when I use my legal thc vape. But if I don't touch it the day I will be awake all night 🫤
I use it for occasional fun and as an analgesic. Pot is great for the "I'm just going to be sitting around in pain even if I take an otc painkiller, so why not be high and watching TV while I enjoy the reduced pain"
Don’t forget this monumental achievement in post-modern music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS88-n4Ek0s
Wow, that song had more references to drugs than what a upper class person probably thinks is written about in stereotypical hip-hop song.
I first heard this in an NPR article talking about how ineffective DARE was.
WESLEY!!!!!!!!!
Hey ensign, ever starred in a snuff film with a romulan spy?
I feel like I'm missing some crucial information
I think this is combining Star Trek with that part of Airplane where the pilot asks the kid inappropriate questions. "You ever been to a Turkish prison?"
Thanks, now that I get it it's pretty funny.
Have you ever seen a full grown naked Vulcan?
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I always heard this growing up (though phrased as "but now you get high to feel normal"), and then when I tried weed for the first time I felt normal for once. It shut the constant noise in my mind off, allowing me to think. It melted away my anxiety. I didn't just feel good. I felt like the veil was lifted and I was seeing clearly for the first time in my life.
I do not get high to "feel good" outside of the fact that feeling normal and functional is a good feeling.
I feel like Tasha was talking more about heroine and less about weed.
Space Meth. Her background has to be one of the most fucked up in Star Trek, tbh. I can never forget her talking about rape gangs on her home colony.
True but opiates are similar. The American opiate crisis began with prescribed painkillers. A lot of people slowly became addicts without realizing it was happening because they just took the pills when it hurt not realizing eventually that some of the pain was withdrawal.
The schedule 1 definition (high risk of abuse, no medicinal purpose) is the sort of thing that while I get it, I don't know of any drugs that actually belong there. Psychedelics are on it despite having low risk of abuse and medical uses. Cannabis is an analgesic, antiemetic, and appetite enhancer. Ecstasy has a place in ptsd treatment. Heroin, cocaine, and meth are all schedule 2.
The American opioid crisis was more of a late 90s thing while Yar's comments were created from the 80s environment which was much more likely to derive from the surge in use of crack cocaine at the time.
The schedule 1 definition (high risk of abuse, no medicinal purpose) is the sort of thing that while I get it, I don't know of any drugs that actually belong there.
Hmmm... I wonder if krokodil (a slavic concoction of under-the-sink chemicals that is like meth on crack) has a medicinal use we just haven't thought of yet? 🤔
Isn't krokodil a variety of active chemicals? There are absolutely drug combos that are entirely destructive
Yeah, it literally helps me experience and respond to the world around me the way I rationally want to. And that includes caring for my family and pets along with any hobby/work benefits.
Have you ever considered an ADHD diagnosis?
I have one. And autism. And BPD.
But I was only diagnosed like 5 or 6 years ago. Started smoking weed at 19.
Whenever I try to explain people this - that it addresses and remediates an issue that I was BORN with and have suffered from every day of my life since living memory - they simply default to "yeah, you're an addict".
Sure fam, like your diabetic uncle is addicted to insulin. Guess we both just need to man up huh?
Usually said by the dude who pounds a daily 12er of Nattty light or Bud Light (Busch light now) and half their meals are fast food
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I really liked this episode. Next gen was always my favourite series, it always presented calamities and tragedies as problems to be solved.
It conveyed the analysis in a level headed way that removed (attempted really would be the right word) either blame or bias towards either party involved, something depicted as necessary to consider the right or appropriate tools for the situation.
It always got me through my toughest times, and yes I should read more XD
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