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
The movie portrayed marijuana as a drug that lured innocent teenagers into using it. Once under the influence of the narcotic, the teenagers went on to engage in many different acts of amoral behavior such as sex and other related crimes. During the 1920's and the 1930's, the media believed that violent behavior resulted from marijuana consumption. Of course there will always be extreme cases where these stereotypes do indeed take place, but for the most part the extent of the issues that this movie covered were extremely exaggerated and built up. It seemed as though the movie was made by bystanders that had never experienced the drug and had only done minimal research. Marijuana is in fact illegal and for reasonable cause, but it is proven that marijuana has therapeutic value and is unlikely to cause the moral dilemmas displayed in the movie. Often used for pain, in reality marijuana has mellow effects not accounted for and explained in the film.
... the drug but have made a big controversy about not using the drug at all. Causing a big dramatic scene that just makes the problem even worse for the person involved in the situation, though problems can’t always be solved to a certain extent. It’s the people trying to help change the problem and not promote people to the Hall of Shame.
George went from marijuana to cocaine, in this case it does a great job of portraying that marijuana can be a gateway drug. According to the NIDA “Early exposure to cannabinoids in adolescent rodents decreases the reactivity of brain dopamine reward centers later in adulthood”, it also goes on explaining how these findings helped explain the growth in vulnerability for addiction to other substances of misuse. (Schmader, 2017). In class, we have discussed addicts
Lately it seems that drug policy and the war on drugs has been in the headlines quite a lot. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the policies that the United States government takes against illegal drugs are coming into question. The mainstream media is catching on to the message of organizations and individuals who have long been considered liberal "Counter Culture" supporters. The marijuana question seems to be the most prevalent and pressing of the drugs and issues that are currently being addressed. The messages of these organizations and individuals include everything from legalization of marijuana for medical purposes, to full-unrestricted legalization of the drug.
Mekdlawit Demissie IGED 130-06 Informative Speech Outline Topic: Marijuana Speech Goal: To inform the audience about the long and short term effects of marijuana usage. Central Idea: Marijuana is the most commonly used drug amongst young people in the United States. Introduction: I. Attention getter:
Experiments throughout the years have proven that when people smoke marijuana they are more likely to start using other hard drugs like heroin or cocaine. In an article on drugabuse.gov, they explain results of one of the experiments they did on rodents. “Early exposure to cannabinoids in adolescent rodents decreases the reactivity of brain dopamine reward centers later in adulthood. To the extent that these findings generalize to humans, this could help explain early marijuana initiates’ increased vulnerability for drug abuse and addiction to other substances of abuse later in life that ahs ben reported by most epidemiological studies.” (“Is marijuana a gateway drug?” 1). This article discusses the idea that THC has an ability to lead the brain to achieve enhanced responses to other drugs. In other words, when you smoke marijuana you get a high, but that high also leaves you wanting more. After you feel like you want more and try new drugs, your brain has been enhanced to get a more intense high off the harder stuff so people start using harder drugs. These harder drugs can include anything from cocaine to heroin to ecstasy. All of these are life threating and have had multiple overdoses/deaths across the United States. This is one of the main reasons to keep marijuana illegal. We don’t need all the teenagers in the United States to be trying heroin or
For nearly one hundred and fifty years marijuana has been illegal in the United States of America. Though marijuana naturally grew in all of our fifty states, it was outlawed due the superior strength and durability of hemp rope. This threatened to replace cotton rope, which would cost wealthy cotton owners a lot of money. To this day marijuana is still outlawed in the U.S., however rope has nothing to do with it. Once slavery and the “cotton boom” were over hemp made a little bit of a comeback in a smoking form. Then, in the early 1940’s the government began releasing anti-marijuana propaganda. In the 1960’s when marijuana became popular amongst pop-culture, a movie by the name of “Reefer Madness” was released depicting marijuana users as fiends and criminals who’s normal everyday lives fell apart, and spun out of control due to the addiction to the drug. Even in the present day organizations, as well as the government, continue to try and sway people from using the substance by portraying users as irresponsible idiots. Some examples of behaviors portrayed in the commercials are: accidental shootings, running over a little girl on a bike, molesting a passed out girl, supporting terror, and impregnating/becoming impregnated. I feel that these advertisements are ridiculously tasteless and misleading. Through personal experience, surveys, an interview, and a case study I intend to prove that marijuana users do not behave in the fashion that the anti-marijuana campaign ads would suggest, and furthermore, I expect to find that the ads so grossly misrepresent the common user, even those who do not use disagree with the negative portrayals. I also challenge you to think about the suggested situations and behaviors from the commercials, I feel that you’ll see every situation and behavior in the advertisements is much more feasible to a person under the influence of alcohol than under the influence of marijuana.
Marijuana could be considered one of the most controversial drugs of the past century. There seems to be inherent benefits and obvious flaws to what a high brings to the human body. Because of this unclear risk/reward potential of ‘lighting up’ the US Government has outlawed the drug. Furthermore many have criminalized the seemingly harmless act of smoking reefer; a bias that has been scorned by many artists in popular music for the upwards of 80 years. As far back as the 1920s to as contemporary as turning on your Pandora Radio, musicians have been trying to protest in song that: It’s
The expressions of the actors caused you to see the situation involving the tobacco to be very frustrating. The band just wanted to practice but their lead drummer kept stepping out to take a smoke. Phrases that showed how bad smoking was were said in the right spot to leave a lasting impression on viewers. Also depicting that the cigarette as a bully to the drummer. This expresses how smoking is a bully that keeps on coming back. Through the whole video the creator was just trying to express how smoking is bad but not be too forceful in the process. If the creator was too forceful then the audience may essentially rebel against the message to show that they will not be controlled by the video.
The legalization of marijuana has been a highly debated topic for many of years. Since the first president to the most recent, our nation’s leaders have consumed the plant known as weed. With such influential figures openly using this drug why is it so frowned upon? Marijuana is considered a gateway drug, a menace to society, and mentally harmful to its consumers. For some people weed brings a sense of anxiety, dizziness, or unsettling feeling.
Everyday people are peer pressured and influenced into multiple unhealthy behaviors. Acts such smoking, alcoholism, and unprotected intercourse are frequent issues in any lifestyle. Friends, family, and especially the media have a way of twisting a person’s mindset into believing these unhealthy choices are safe. Currently, the most reoccurring phenomenon is issues with drugs. More often than not, there are reports on people misusing and abusing drugs, particularly celebrities and athletes.
...s look up to their peers and do whatever they do because they think it is the cool thing to do. Many times it is out of peer pressure that people try this drug to begin with. This can all be avoided if everyone is aware of the bad side effects that can occur in their bodies and what is in marijuana that will mess up their lives.
...ssures to be the best they can be academically. With all these pressures of adolescence on the rise, more and more teens are falling prey to the alluring “high” that allows a temporary leave from their problems and stress. Because teens lack the maturity and knowledge to understand long term consequences, they tend not to think about the down falls that they will face as a result of the drug use. This is especially true when it come to marijuana, as it is seen by so many as the harmless drug. With the increased use of marijuana by youth over the last three decades, it is imperative that better preventative measures, and firmer penalties, be put in place to educate and raise awareness concerning the risks and dangerous side effects that marijuana use can have. Only once society has put these preventative measures in to action, will there be an effective change seen.
Nowadays, everyone is concerned about their image and some have the misconception that they will get the spotlight if they smoke weed or any other drug which is not so easily found and is secretly managed from some source by arranging money too. The thought of doing something which is illegal enhances the curiosity and thrill of the youngsters. I have even come across certain places in around my college campus where there are groups of boys sitting together and smoking weed and shouting and singing and going crazy. These places are usually isolated and very dark after sunset so they are the best locations for such people as nobody notices them and even if someone does, stopping them is the last thing he/she would do. I do not get a very simple point that why is it so hard for people to accept that girls can smoke weed
The motive for smoking marijuana unlawfully depends on the user. Unlawful smoking of marijuana is done for several reasons; these include peer pressure, pressure from outside the peer group, the desire to relax, and the need to even identify themselves with popular media icons. The effects of the substance also cause symptoms that seem to be highly desirable. When smoking marijuana the user feels a sensation of exuberance, as ideas begin to flow more easily, creative and philosophical thinking emerges. Music becomes more appreciated as a deeper bond is felt. The user's awareness of their senses increase while a pleasant feeling takes over the body. In the end, an enhancement between mind ...