Perez Hilton's Video On Celebrities And Weed

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Recently, well known blogger Perez Hilton made a video which he posted on his website talking about celebrities using drugs in public. The video shows images from paparazzi and instagram pictures of celebrities smoking marijuana. The issue being addressed is how publically celebrities these days use drugs for everyone to see. They use the drugs with no thoughts about how it will affect the millions of young children and teens who view these images. A picture can be worth a thousand words to these kids. They want to copy what they see in the picture. They don't have any background on the drug or the effects of it, they just want to be like who they see on TV. The main issue the video is bringing up is the fact that celebrities smoke so …show more content…

You see your favorite celebs taking these drugs it pushes to the back of your mind the actual dangerous effects they have. You see Miley Cyrus talking about Molly and Rihanna smoking weed it just makes you see the drugs differently. I think celebrities endorsing these drugs gives people a false sense of security and the damage there doing to their bodies. People now take weed because they think it's the cool thing to do. They believe celebrities do it so smoking the weed is a little bit like living the "celebrity lifestyle". It begins with smoking weed a couple times for recreational use to slowly falling into addiction in some cases. These teens are creating a new "weed lifestyle" which Perez mentions in the video. People are smoking for the photos to post on Instagram just like their favorite celebrities. It's becoming the normal thing to do to fit in and be popular. The video mentions how instead of concentrating on smoking there should be more talking about education and a bigger push on working and getting a job. Perez fears that this so called "weed lifestyle" is creating a generation of laziness and not enough hard work. The drugs are taking over their lives. This laid back lifestyle that can come with smoking weed over a long period of time can be associated with less dopamine being produced in the brain. Dopamine is a chemical in the brain that causes you to feel good when you do something right. Research has shown that long time weed users have lower dopamine levels(http://www.menshealth.com/health /new-study-smoking-pot-can-make-you-lazy). Dopamine gives you a feeling of happiness knowing you accomplished something and that's a feeling most people would want to strive for and want to feel again. A solution the video brings up is celebrities can smoke but do it in private. Instead of posting pictures of doing drugs they should be inspiring young

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