4-Part Formspring Question About Pot Pasted Into One Tumblr Text Post
Q: i know there’s potostraddle now, and i’m not expecting this to be published, and i don’t want it to be. i’m just saying it’s disgusting how much you’ve talked about weed on here. weed is illegal for a reason, and no matter what you say about it. it’s still a big deal in practically all schools across the nation. And to have so many young women (like myself) look up to you and admire the person you’ve become, and see how much weed plays a part in your life, is a shame. I still love reading your your site, but i refuse to ask someone who refers to pot in practically every other answer or so a question. And it shouldn’t be like that. So hopefully “potostraddle” will change that. And i know it’s you. But that’s okay, because hopefully you realized that it’s not right. Okay, well keep doing everything else that you do. And thank you for everything else that you’ve done for me. This is going to be in several posts.. but once again, i don’t want to be published. This is just for you..
A: i know you said that you don’t want me to publish this — but if you want to register a complaint that’s directed just at me, please email me! When you contact me anonymously via formspring, the only way I can respond to you is publicly.
When you say “I know that it’s you,” grammatically you’re referencing “potostraddle.” Is that meant to suggest that I started potostraddle and then formspringed myself about it? I assure you I didn’t create potostraddle. As I said in an earlier formspring answer, I don’t know anything about pot (I know about the cultural/social/legal/medical aspects, but like I don’t know the difference between different strands or methods of smoking) and can’t answer these questions, nor do I want that responsibility on me or autostraddle. I don’t even have time to check tinkerbell’s formspring!
The debate over why marijuana is illegal is a complicated debate with no easy answers. There are lots of documentaries about it that you should check out.
But in California, where I live, medicinal marijuana is legal, and is prescribed for things like pain and anxiety. Recreational marijuana use has been decriminalized. Prior to moving to California, I didn’t ever talk about pot here or on the website.
Where I grew up – in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which had at the time the lightest weed laws of anywhere in the country ($5 fine for possession), raised by hippies – pot just wasn’t a big deal to me. I suspect I’m incredibly desensitized to it and haven’t thought enough about how that might come off. It’s kinda everywhere. It’s not a gateway drug, it doesn’t kill people, and it’s less harmful than legal things like The Drink and Cigarettes and many prescription medications.
I didn’t like it as a teenager b/c my friends liked it and it made them boring and nobody wanted to go climb elementary school walls at night or play scattergories with me, they wanted to smoke pot and eat sandwiches and stare at MTV. Hearing that someone I admired enjoyed smoking weed wouldn’t have made a difference to me.
I have fibromyalgia, which was diagnosed when I was 20 years old. It’s a chronic pain disorder that can often leave me debilitated. It’s aggravated by stress, not sleeping, and anxiety. As anyone who knows me can attest, marijuana is one of the only things that helps the pain sometimes, or calms me down enough so I can sleep. I don’t have health insurance. Also you guys stress me out.
In any event, I’ll try to be more conscious of how/if I talk about it. I’ve never recommended pot to anybody, ever. I’m sorry that it came off that way.
