...that we CAN talk about illegal drugs, where to get them, how much they cost, and how to do them. BUT we CANT talk about drugs being bad for the person, them being a bad influence for others, them breaking the law, or say any of it on their thread about the stuff.
I think thats really dumb because Sythe tries to keep a site that is legal and doesnt break any laws. Buying and selling pixels is legal because they dont exist, although exposing and educating minors to illegal substances and substance abuse is.
Perhaps a rule change/alteration should be in the near future.
Censoring various topics is not in moral, or ethical interest especially in Sythe's eyes. Now first off, I invite anybody here to make a topic that outlines exactly how drugs are bad for you. If you make that topic, you should be able to defend that topic when provided with counter-evidance.
Education is power. Education allows 'minors' to make an educated decision and make informed choices in their lives. The fact is, drugs like marijuana are NOT fully understood, and the best we can do is provide each other with the most updated scientific evidence related to the drugs use.
For example, a study recently showed that REGULAR marijuana smokers are TWICE as likely to develop testicular cancer than a control group that did not use marijuana. This study came out recently, and has not been replicated.
One of the factors of good science is replication, so you must take that study for what it's worth, a single piece of an unfinished puzzle. The study does not PROVE the marijuana increases the chance for testicular cancer among regular marijuana smokers, however it shows that there is POSSIBLY a correlation. If the study is replicated multiple times, then it become closer to a proof of this fact.
However there are also studies that have been done that show marijuana does not effect lung cancer rates, and a few that I know of that have shown marijuana even reduces the size of a lung tumor.
As I said, and cannot stress enough, you must take this for what it's worth, an unfinished puzzle, and these are just pieces attempting to draw conclusions. One study cannot cause a person to give absolute faith in it's findings.
The bottom line of what I'm trying to say is the following:
1. You cannot assume that because a single study showed something, or even two, three of four studies drew a single conclusion that that conclusion is true. There could be a variety of variables at work that effect the end results.
2. Suppressing education is exactly what is used in racial, gender, religious, or any other kind of discrimination. Regardless of the laws a state provides, it's citizens have a right to freedom of knowledge, and freedom of speech. If I want to learn about a topic that is my decision, and the state should have NO right to censor material provided that the material itself does not break the law. Material regarding information of any substance, regardless of that substances legality is NOT illegal.
3. As an individual I have the right to make choices about what I want to put in my body. As this is the internet and we live in an ever globalizing world, you must recognize that there are countries in this world where marijuana is illegal, if not part of the culture. I will turn to Holland, or Jamaica as examples of this. (Although marijuana is not technically legal in Jamaica it is part of the culture)
4. I've already stated this but I cannot stress it enough
Education is power!
And?
I have a Marijuana Thread.
I don't see the problem. Oh right kids view this site.
Why would a kid (Who Doesn't smoke Weed) click a Marijuana thread?
Or any Drug related thread in that matter.
Exactly, If you want to avoid the marijuana threads, please by all means feel free to do so.
From a logistics standpoint the drug-related threads should be consolidated into one thread (or possibly one thread per-drug?) as to avoid the current complaints of those who do not enjoy seeing a battery of threads about the same topic over and over regardless of the discussion happening in that topic.
