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Steryotyping Marijuana Users?

Many times Ill hear someone calling a stoner "lazy", "stupid", "no brain cells"..but I just dont get it. Ive smoked regularly for the last two years. I take the hardest classes in the school, make straight A's in them, play varsity tennis, participate in a number of extracurricular activities and maintain a 11 month relationship. I know many in my same position. With that said, how can people still be so stupid to steryotype marijuana users?


    




seanmicheals122
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Cos you get to DUMB ,STUPID OR A NO BRAINER TO HARM YOUR BODY WITH DRUGS....ANY TYPE OF DRUGS.


Byakuya
Fair enough. But would it be wrong to stereotype marijuana users as people who knowingly participate in illegal activity?


♥FAIREST♥OF♥THEM♥ALL♥
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bcos, the "stereotype" stoners are the ones people know about from doctors treating them for stuff that is mainly caused from smoking over a number of years,
if affects different people in different ways.
also from the way that "stoners" are portrayed on t.v and in films


tigerlilly
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My bofriend frequently smokes and he owns his own buisness and in 6 months he brought in 86,000.He is the farthest thing from lazy and the best man i know.People steryotype when they dont understand.If they have never smoked it they dont know that you dont have to be lazy and stupid.But there are the few stoners that give the rest of us a bad name.Its with anything really just like blondes lol not every blonde is stupid,but there are a few that give the rest of them a bad name!


lemontreegr
two years please ! That's not a long time and even if you can function well high smoking will catch up to you sooner or later

Like the above answer said lol i just read it


pghpatt
Look what it did to my skin and hair!!!


susiebryce
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It ain't stereotyping its working with majorities...You are lucky enough for it not to affect you detrimentally, but even you must admit it has been proved to accentuate psychosis in a lot of people. A great proportion of people who do take recreational drugs have little or no respect for their bodies. (Or are like you, and think it will never happen to them...)


lillardlane@yahoo.com
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Well, there are different types of people everywhere, Just because you have a rare case does not prove everyone else functions like you do. It eggecy everyone differently. Bye.


Daniel W
i agree, most steryotypes are like that


TxTopCop
Not all people who are 'stoners' are stupid, but all 'stoners' are stupid.

The sad thing is that they don't even know it.


TMQ
I had a close friend who's life was ruined by pot. It killed his motivation to do anything. He was a happy guy who slowly started smoking more and more. He stopped playing music, his marriage failed, he lost his job. All because he was "too tired" to do anything.

I've seen the harm that recreational smoking does. What good does pot smoking do?


tigergirl_32
stupid and no brain cells = destroying your health. As for lazy, I've never used/heard that.


Snakes N' Barrels
they are smart people look at ozzy osbourne the man is a genius pot is good for you it stimulates you senses like red bull


natalie g
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I am in the top 10% of my class, and I'm in sports and activities even though I blaze. I think the hippies back in the 60's really created that image when they were just laying on the sidewalks, high, in San Francisco. We need to change people's opinions or something, especially the old folks.


Keely!
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Uhm ,because marijuana causes you to lose brain cells.
You obviosuly aren't taking too hard of classes if you don't know that.

Go back to like...6th grade health.
Even before that they tell you.
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ADULTWORKTV.CO.UK
go listen to sum bob marley maaaaaannnnn!!


Shep
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Ditto to that...stereotypes come with everything, doesn't mean it applies to us :)

p.s. 4 days until you know what!


jwthoughts
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Give it time. 2 years does not make you a talking monkey. I have a friend who was always getting A's and B's in high school. Smoked pot for around 15 years fairly heavily. He has become the stereotype.

There is NO denying that pot kills brain cells, and fast. It is a good think you have billions, but seriously, get off the pot. Life is a high without drugs, it just takes attitude.

Social...you are tongue in cheek about Ozzy, right? He was a musical genius. Now it is a talking monkey. He hasn't got the brain power to light a 5 watt light bulb. Do not get me wrong. I like Ozzy, but to use him as an example that pot is good for the mind...that is laughable.


isskyle
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I know someone who has been doing more then that for the last 5 years and he's also really smart. He's in the IT field with me. He has all of his tech certs and now working on his masters.


Matlock
yea i smoke that purple haze myself.

and im a freakin lawyer


Chelsayyy.
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Because some of them are stupid.
Actually, the majority act stupid purpously,

Just to get the point across that they smoke pot.
And that's pretty much where the *stereotype* comes from.


J.M.
Cause people are judgmental idiots. Not to mention hypocrits. Don't bother trying to figure them out.


patrickryanlewis
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There is only one stereotype I put on weed users: criminals.

Because you are breaking the law, and deserve to be prosecuted.





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