[Vision2020] Discussing Marijuana via Social Media (Darrell Keim)

[Lynn McCollough]

Darrell,

I did not think the article was about substance abuse or the war on drugs
at all. As I read it, I thought the article was about the comments that can
be left after a posting on social media. The article did not cover how “the
pro legalization side react to research” as you attest, it was about dumb
comments. The article’s sum up sentence seems to be:  “ Parents need to
educate their youngsters so that they know how biased and full of untruths
such comment from drug users can be.”

Thus I found it to be a rather useless article. Has anyone ever told their
family members anonymous commenters are what one should read to understand
an issue?

Has anyone here read for instance comments left on YouTube? They are
apparently typically misogynistic rantings from teenagers who feel powerful
when they post words from their potty mouths, at least imho. The comments
are not from music critics, educated seminar attendees or whoever might
pertain to the posted video.

Your article discusses people who go by “WowFolksAreDumb”, JDSalinger,
FlyingTooLow, BlowsAgainstTheEmpire, etc. possibly did not post appropriate
facts to the topic.

 Who on earth expected them to?
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