Why normalizing cannabis use is an important step towards mainstream acceptance and an end to stigma for good

“If you don’t hide your beer, don’t hide your weed,” a perfect statement that sums up the gist of this Reddit post.

This can shock some people who may not understand the nuances and complexities of the modern cannabis user. For those who don’t smoke weed, cannabis is a drug that “numbs” and “slows” you.

Whether these people actually know this is irrelevant. In their “psychocosmos”, the use of cannabis means drugs and should therefore be hidden from the eyes of children.

After all, the idea of ​​someone shooting H in front of an infant is the “creep factor of paramount importance.” I just wrote this sentence and I feel dirty.

However, we don’t feel the same dislike for the idea of ​​someone having a beer while grilling with snotty-nosed young children.

A mother could sit with her glass of rose wine while her three-year-old plays on the floor a few feet away and the toughest drug warrior wouldn’t blink.

This tells us that there is some tolerance for the perceived severity of a particular drug and its use in children.

We know that black tar heroin and babies just don’t get along, while a cold beer at the Sunday BBQ is “a-okay”!

But where does grass fall on this spectrum?

This is a good question. For 50 years we have believed that cannabis is a terrible drug that would ruin your life. In fact, cannabis is considered “bad as heroin” in terms of drug severity.

The severity of the drug is based on the idea that a drug is highly addictive and has little or no medicinal value to the user. In other words, the classifications of the Narcotics Act.

Cannabis, as many of my readers would know, is a Schedule I substance.

It’s like SUPER-MAX for medication. If you want to research a Category I substance, you have to go through miles of bureaucracy to finally get your studies done.

However, it is much easier to study heroin and similar narcotics than cannabis.

This is because the DEA and FDA have played a “Go Fuck Yourself!” Game beyond the legal hurdles of studying a List I substance. for anyone who has tried to get a license to study weed.

This catch-22 is well documented.

Nonetheless, the propaganda campaign used to perpetuate the “evils of marijuana” has seeped into the collective consciousness of the masses.

While it is true that cannabis has more support than ever before in the history of use, there are still many subtle unconscious programs that are triggered when we are faced with certain combinations or scenarios of cannabis.

Children and weeds are part of it.

The range of children and weed

When it comes to weed and kids, some combinations are allowed while others are loathed. For example, no one would argue with a mother who gives cannabis to her children to stop their seizures.

Indeed, this is the very example that broke into the mainstream. Children with cancer, children with seizure disorders, children with any disorder – if cannabis can help, there is no one to argue against it.

If you oppose medical cannabis for children, you will be seen as a heartless monster with no empathy for those affected.

However, remove the disease from the child and suddenly cannabis and children do not mix. A healthy child and a burning joint – that creates conflict.

For some, the mere presence of cannabis and a burning joint is unbearable. It’s child abuse!

But what if that joint belonged to the child’s father – out of reach of the child who ran far away with his snot-nosed friends – and was slowly being smoked by the parents over a Sunday barbecue.

What if it was a vape instead?

How does your emotional response change in accordance with the scenic changes within the hypothetical world we are creating?

Some people can still get into conflict. Should cannabis be around children at all?

Should we normalize cannabis use?

Welcome to the “Title” section of this article. Here I laid the foundation for the grand conclusion of the idea of ​​“normalizing cannabis use”.

We know there is a range of drugs allowed and the presence of children. We know that a beer or a glass of wine is a socially acceptable drug.

When it comes to tobacco it is “ok to smoke”, but not “around the children”. You don’t need to hide your habit from children, however.

When it comes to weed, we’re only now reopening the case and looking at things honestly. More people smoke weed than ever before in history. Many of these people have children.

Of course, as with any drug – including alcohol – some measures must be taken if consumed in front of children.

However, unless we feel the inherent need to censor our actions while drinking alcohol – arguably a more dangerous drug than cannabis – we shouldn’t feel the inherent need to censor our own smoking habits either.

Yes, we need to make sure we don’t smoke in an enclosed area around children, simply because weed, unlike alcohol, contains smoke. Hence, it is preferable not to smoke in front of children – however, it is best to be honest about our use.

Let children know that this is an adult activity

The main reason for normalizing cannabis use is to make children understand that – just like alcohol – it is something that adults do.

However, due to the medical aspect, it is also important to distinguish between medicinal cannabis and recreational cannabis.

However, this can only happen if we have an honest and open discussion about cannabis – without government filters framing it as the scourge of the earth.

In other words – it is time to remove cannabis from the CSA.

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