Post 7

Hi!

As a kid I also hear many opinions regarding drugs. I don’t remember what people, my family mostly sais about them, but I think it was the usual thing to say “don’t do drugs, there’re bad for your health, they make you addict, etc”.  I remember when I was 9 years old I buy a bracelet for a friend I had at that time with a marihuana draw on it. A that age I didn’t know what it was, I only thought it was a cute plant. My father saw the bracelet and ask me what was I gonna do with it, I told him it was a gift. Then he says to me what that drawing means and that my friend’s parents wouldn’t be happy if their daughter used that drawing on her wrist. Finally, I gave up on giving the bracelet and I throw it away because I felt so bad for buying such thing. That’s when I learned what marihuana was and that it was a “bad” thing. (Bold of my father to said that to me because now on days we smoke together, but I guess he had to put an image for his 9 years old child).

Moving on, I also think drugs used is influence by a western point of view. Regarding to medical use, not only the medical drugs are relegated to the background but also other plants that ancient cultures used to heal people. It the common thing to trust more in a pill and what a doctor has to say than what our own bodies are trying to say to us and the use we can give to the nature earth has to offer.