I'm a music therapist, and since I think music can do good, the opposite has to be true as well. Really appreciate your making this point so well. It's sort of amazing the power of music is so under appreciated, when we can all feel it if we pay attention.
I know there are many stories like this...but I lost my college best friend to pot (when it set off clinical depression). He's still living at home with his parents. Last week, my favorite cousin died at aged 62. His pot habit set off a psychotic incident in his late 20's. He never moved out of his parents's home. While I know these are anecdotes, there are too many of them. I'm no angel. I smoked pot when I was young, but I quit after a couple of years. I hate pot, and what it does to people.
thank you for bringing so much sense to this issue. My husband retired from teaching at UofMiami School of Law. We used to bemoan the number of students who were walking around w ear buds and their inability to simply enjoy the natural world around them. I’m always surprised during the week when a piece of worship music from Sunday service keeps dropping into my mind. I remember speaking with a company receptionist about why she allowed her son to listen to the most horrific rap songs. I wonder where he is in his life now have been subjected to that steady input of poison. I was a Guardian Ad Litem volunteer for almost 13yrs. Every drug counselor always affirmed that marijuana was a gateway drug. Alex Bernstein wrote an incredibly well researched piece on it and legalizing it.
The more I look around, it only reinforces Cerno's statements. I live in the midwest, since covid I know of 5 vape shops that sell the Delta-8 THC in my town. Side note if anyone wants another alternative for music, look into videogame soundtracks. There are volumes of stuff without lyrics that carry a vibe; heroism, somberness, joy, transcendence, its all in there. Plus videogame music is specifically curated on the basis of you engaging in activity while it plays so its great for background or setting an atmosphere.
I'm a music therapist, and since I think music can do good, the opposite has to be true as well. Really appreciate your making this point so well. It's sort of amazing the power of music is so under appreciated, when we can all feel it if we pay attention.
I had the same experience with rap / hip-hop, lost all interest in it, polar opposite or my late teens and early 20s.
Well written, thank you.
I know there are many stories like this...but I lost my college best friend to pot (when it set off clinical depression). He's still living at home with his parents. Last week, my favorite cousin died at aged 62. His pot habit set off a psychotic incident in his late 20's. He never moved out of his parents's home. While I know these are anecdotes, there are too many of them. I'm no angel. I smoked pot when I was young, but I quit after a couple of years. I hate pot, and what it does to people.
Sorry to hear. I lost a friend as well. He smoked a joint that had been laced with fentanyl.
thank you for bringing so much sense to this issue. My husband retired from teaching at UofMiami School of Law. We used to bemoan the number of students who were walking around w ear buds and their inability to simply enjoy the natural world around them. I’m always surprised during the week when a piece of worship music from Sunday service keeps dropping into my mind. I remember speaking with a company receptionist about why she allowed her son to listen to the most horrific rap songs. I wonder where he is in his life now have been subjected to that steady input of poison. I was a Guardian Ad Litem volunteer for almost 13yrs. Every drug counselor always affirmed that marijuana was a gateway drug. Alex Bernstein wrote an incredibly well researched piece on it and legalizing it.
Again, many thanks, Jeannette Graham
The more I look around, it only reinforces Cerno's statements. I live in the midwest, since covid I know of 5 vape shops that sell the Delta-8 THC in my town. Side note if anyone wants another alternative for music, look into videogame soundtracks. There are volumes of stuff without lyrics that carry a vibe; heroism, somberness, joy, transcendence, its all in there. Plus videogame music is specifically curated on the basis of you engaging in activity while it plays so its great for background or setting an atmosphere.
Weed and gambling / slots destroyed my hometown.
Slot machines are in at least half of the Gas Stations, recent edition with the last year
that last sentence should have read “the perils of legalizing it."
I know a teen who got hooked on THC vaping - sent him off the deep end and into rehab/psych ward after he attacked his family.
It’s the biggest cover up of our lifetime.