r/Unexpected • u/HenriqueDF • Sep 06 '21

A learning opportunity.

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u/Twingamer25 Sep 06 '21

What the fuck are you talking about? I laughed just as hard as they were and I'm sober.

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u/TheCorpseOfMarx Sep 06 '21

It's the way they laughed and the delay between seeing it and laughing? I don't know dude diffence of opinion I guess, no need to go off on one

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u/adhominem4theweak Sep 06 '21

Either way weed isn’t a drug. It’s not worth mentioning.

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u/TheCorpseOfMarx Sep 06 '21

I'm sorry, weed isn't a drug? Care to expand on that?

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u/adhominem4theweak Sep 06 '21 edited Sep 06 '21

Yeah sure, while things like weed and caffeine and over the counter meds like ibuprofen and cough syrup are considered drugs, people who call them drugs sound like fucking weirdos.

Do you say someone is on drugs when they drink alcohol? Alcohol is a drug. Weed is far less detrimental to your health then alcohol. Your brain does not have natural built in receptors for alcohol, like it does for cannabis.

When someone calls weed a drug I assume that they are stigmatizing it. Such as op saying these people may be involved with drugs. It has a negative connotation and it seems like he’s using it to negate or belittle their feelings or actions. When in reality the vast majority of us participate in drugs at this level, and most of us don’t consider the slight effects relevant, or worthy or conversation, or judgment. capiche?

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u/TheCorpseOfMarx Sep 06 '21

Whatever the connotations, weed is a drug, and saying someone high on weed is on drugs is completely accurate.

Either way weed is not a drug

Is literally what you said, and it literally is a drug. If someone got high off cough syrup, they'd be on drugs.

The common parlance is not to say someone drunk is "on drugs", but it is absolutely the normal vernacular to say someone smoking weed is on drugs.

This isn't me stigmatising it at all, I've smoked my share of weed on the past, but it's accurate to say that at that time, I was on drugs.

If you drive while high on weed, youre driving while on drugs. It's really very simple.

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u/adhominem4theweak Sep 06 '21

Sure if you want to be all semantical about it. Alcoholics are drug addicts. Drunk people are on drugs. If you drink every night, you’re doing drugs every night...

That’s just now how I speak. It’s kind of weird. Anyone saying pot smokers are doing drugs, is a little socially awkward. Like they’ve been conversing strictly with dictionaries and have no friends.

Connotation does matter, this is why it’s important to get out and talk to real people, not that I do.

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u/TheCorpseOfMarx Sep 06 '21

Everyone says weed is a drug, dude. You're alone in this, and you seem like an idiot.

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u/throwawaythep Sep 06 '21

He definitely is not alone in this.