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

[Darrell Keim]

I agree RE: what the article is about.  The war on drugs, as Sunil brought
up, is mentioned in passing only.


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Lynn McCollough <lmccollough at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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