>weed isnt harmless in itself
if you are heavily repressed and you are looking for a feel-good button and take too much weed, the weed will wanna show you some stuff...
what stuff? exactly the type of stuff you nervously try to ignore. the stuff that gets you to nervously laugh when it is brought up in conversation and makes you want to change the subject quick. weed shines the light where you don't want it to go and it amplifies everything. weed is the good friend that asks you what you keep in the locked room and will not stop asking.
if weed makes you paranoid then because you think and question reality WAY TOO SUPERFICIALLY when you are sober. weed demands that you consider all the available information, not just the convenient one.
i don't know what you are referring to when you say weed isn't harmless.
i know alcohol isn't harmless and it is perfectly legal, encouraged and part of the culture. it is a main component of adult social life and to me that's a disgrace to resort to such an inferior drug. alcohol is shit, beer is shit. people use it to endure shit lives and it has the dangerous sideeffect nobody seems to talk about: it makes ugly women pretty enough.
i guess when i hear someone bashing weed and praising alcohol, i am probably talking to an ugly woman.
>but theres no reason to chastise them for it unless youd like to see them get defensive and dig their heels in.
i am merely the friend who wonders what is in the forbidden room and why it is forbidden. if you wanna play along and play dumb and protect ignorance go right ahead but i am smarter then you, i know this behavior can only result in more fascism so i am doing my part to shine a light on it.