Drugs: pg. 2

Stuff some adults don't want you to know about drugs:

Adults who have used illegal drugs have an extremely hard time telling the truth to their child or other children about their early youth drug experiences.

This is because the truth is that for most people drugs were great. It was fun. Sex, food, and music was great. Most of us were happier and more carefree immediately after we took the drug than the minute before we took the drug.

Now many experimenters have stopped doing drugs for some valid reasons. These former users, possibly your parents, are afraid that you will get carried away, lose your motivation (or your ability) to get good grades, and that you will continue doing drugs. They know from experience that though it was fun, it had some undesirable effects. 

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Parents are caught in a paradox:

Paradox: A paradox exists when a parent knows cannabis is not healthy for him/her self, yet used or still uses it, and when they try to hypocritically convince their child to not use it.

Many parents can't communicate, "No drugs" without their hypocrisy revealing itself and so, communication doesn't take place. They can tell you to just say no to drugs but they did drugs themselves and completely understand (but can't support) your interest.

Parents have two big concerns:

1) That you will become so addicted that it will ruin your motivation to succeed.

With few exceptions those who use marijuana daily will tell you that it effects one's drive and ambition. Rather than striving for excellence a daily user will succumb to mediocrity. Worse yet, grass-smoking parents make it difficult for their children to pursue excellence so energy-sapping is the space at home.

99.9% of the fantastic business ideas, poems, and music, arrived at while high do not survive the light of day. That is to say, a poem written while high is not as inspiring when read the next morning.

For the majority of users marijuana triggers introspection and hedonistic gratification.  Typical activities involve sitting on a couch at home talking or snacking, or listening to music, or out dancing, as opposed to studying, attending county council meetings, or taking part in actively bettering the community.

2) That it may do some irreversible damage to your brain.

Adults fear the economic consequences of an entire generation of teens who might denounce Capitalism. They are concerned about who will pay for their child's medical costs when they have lived a life of no health insurance, no savings for retirement, and zero participation (from apathy) in community politics.

Adults picture a future in which an entire generation of teens really really drop out and do drugs for 20 to 30 years straight.  They know that this is a possible scenario. Why in the heck would any conscious intelligent ethical person want to play their (the adult's) business/school/war/Trump, get ahead at the expense of others, games?  

Adults picture that the hospitals would be full of sick people who have lost their motivation for most everything, people who have let their immune system collapse and have no money to pay for their own health care or that of their children's. In particular your parents envision having to empty your bedpan and wipe the drool from your mouth for life.

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Most parents break their own laws of choice so they are not conscious about the karma that comes from their children breaking a drug law:

Seldom do you hear a parent saying,

"Listen, drugs are great but please don't until you are 18 and have your own house. If you do drugs and then the microwave oven breaks we can't be sure it wasn't a consequence of our breaking our agreement to support community laws. We can't be sure it wasn't because we covertly communicated that we'd allowed you to do drugs as long as you didn't get caught by us or the police. Here's the deal. If you do any drug at all, that's the same as you telling us that you no longer want to live with us. We will throw you out, without financial support, immediately, and there will be no way of coming back until you have been drug-free for 6 months. We have no intention of playing the drug game with you. Is this clear? Do you have any questions or doubts that we mean what we say? Good. We have an agreement then?"

The above is an example of communicating with intention. When delivered by a person whose reputation is that they tell the truth, keep their agreements, and mean what they say, it gets gotten. The intention (the end result) is clear for all to see up front at the creating of the agreement.

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