in b4 "lol your catholic schoolgirl is showing"

[okroginator]

So I was on today's RP!S, and there was a secret about someone doing coke. It could have been true, or a troll secret, or whatever. But I found myself really disturbed by several replies. A lot of people replied condemning drug use, which is what I would have replied with if I weren't too chickenshit to reply to anything in rp!s (lol). But then

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[flibbergibbet]

I saw that secret too, and I was similarly... well, not quite disturbed by those comments because I'm so numb to that bullshit, but. Yeah.

Those comments kind of reinforced the reason I always have been, and always will be, wary of people who advocate for more lenient drug policies. Do I agree with some of their principals? Absolutely. (Marijuana being a Schedule 1 narcotic is the stupidest fucking thing, the way we prosecute drug cases punishes the victims more often than not, etc.) But--and I do realize that this is most likely due to over exposure to people who are the bad face of this movement, but--everyone I've ever met who gets really up in arms about how strict drug policies are end up engaging in this self-serving, masturbatory dialogue about how drugs are made out to be SO MUCH WORSE than they are, how dare you harsh my high.

Particularly with cocaine. Well, again this is probably personal experience because it's largely a rich white person drug and I grew up in a rich area, where people whined about how cocaine being illegal was UNFAIR in the same way that they whined about the fact that their daddy bought them a Mercedes for their 16th birthday, instead of the BMW they wanted. The entitlement these people feel really, really bothers me.

[okroginator]

Yeah, I was disturbed by those comments in conjunction with what I know about cocaine as a "rich white person drug," because combined, they seemed to paint a picture of a bunch of snotty affluent teenagers/young adults patting themselves on the back for engaging in more risky behavior without stopping to consider any consequences. The entitlement, I guess, is what I'm trying to get at. Not sure I'm making much sense in what I'm trying to get across.