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Somebody stay up all night with me. I have to write a 7-page paper for drug class. It's on the topic of drug subculture based on two ethnographies, one in Finland, one in Australia. And then there's this fucking retarded article I should have read before I selected. Scholarly articles, like those from the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, especially those written as recently as July 2002, should not start as such:
"The use of illicit drugs out than marijuana (called "illicit drugs" hereafter), especially during early adolescence, is thought to interfere with normal cognitive, emotional, and social development. It is linked with problem behaviors such as early sexual activity, truancy, violence, and weapon carrying. These behaviors may lead to sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus infection, pregnancy, school failure, injury and accidents, homicides, and suicides."
Fuck that. I'm going to have to destroy this article. It puts a bunch of numbers on what makes kids do drugs. Usually statistics and proportions eliminate bias. But your numbers are going to stink of bias if you try to quantify what causes drug use. And they will therefore work to promote fear, a la Fox News.
Tonight at ten: drugs are 10 bad for your kids. 5 out of 3 professionals say this about that. 95% of people who 923 will end up being 324252.234 in 23 years. BE AFRAID!
Drug use is no more responsible for early sexual activity than is letting your 14-year-old daughter dress like a whore; for truancy than is having to attend a school that has to spend more money on metal detectors than on textbooks; for violence than anything on the planet; for weapon carrying than having a domestic and foreign war on the very drugs that cause so-called "weapon carrying".
But then, I'm a dirty drug user myself. How can I help it if huffing gas is so much fun? And so what if PCP made me have sex when I was ten, after ditching school, and beating the shit out of some kid as I held a pair of nunchuks in my back pocket? That's my problem, not some scientist's.
Uhhhhhhmmmm. I want some crack.
"The use of illicit drugs out than marijuana (called "illicit drugs" hereafter), especially during early adolescence, is thought to interfere with normal cognitive, emotional, and social development. It is linked with problem behaviors such as early sexual activity, truancy, violence, and weapon carrying. These behaviors may lead to sexually transmitted diseases and human immunodeficiency virus infection, pregnancy, school failure, injury and accidents, homicides, and suicides."
Fuck that. I'm going to have to destroy this article. It puts a bunch of numbers on what makes kids do drugs. Usually statistics and proportions eliminate bias. But your numbers are going to stink of bias if you try to quantify what causes drug use. And they will therefore work to promote fear, a la Fox News.
Tonight at ten: drugs are 10 bad for your kids. 5 out of 3 professionals say this about that. 95% of people who 923 will end up being 324252.234 in 23 years. BE AFRAID!
Drug use is no more responsible for early sexual activity than is letting your 14-year-old daughter dress like a whore; for truancy than is having to attend a school that has to spend more money on metal detectors than on textbooks; for violence than anything on the planet; for weapon carrying than having a domestic and foreign war on the very drugs that cause so-called "weapon carrying".
But then, I'm a dirty drug user myself. How can I help it if huffing gas is so much fun? And so what if PCP made me have sex when I was ten, after ditching school, and beating the shit out of some kid as I held a pair of nunchuks in my back pocket? That's my problem, not some scientist's.
Uhhhhhhmmmm. I want some crack.
