{"id":116,"date":"2015-07-14T21:24:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T02:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/?p=116"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:48:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T16:48:10","slug":"its-becoming-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/2015\/07\/14\/its-becoming-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Becoming Mainstream!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey guys my name is Henry Barragan and I\u2019m kid from east Dallas, close to where Dallas becomes Mesquite. My parents are divorced and have 3 brothers. I didn\u2019t really live in that bad of a neighborhood, but in a place that had a bad reputation. So when I tell people that I graduated from Bryan Adams High school, I would get one of either two responses. \u201cNever heard of it\u201d, or \u201cHow did you survive that school?\u201d I usually get the ladder. Well if you can guess, it\u2019s because people know that a lot of the kids in the school use drugs, more notably, marijuana.<\/p>\n

\"\"I honestly never used marijuana in my life. Mainly because of all the anti-drug propaganda I\u2019ve seen on TV in my early years and having almost all of my life being told that if I used drugs, I would be disowned by my family and god. So throughout middle school I would be scared from all the high school stories that most people usually heard in their life. Stuff like, \u201cIf you didn\u2019t do marijuana, you weren\u2019t a cool kid\u201d, or \u201cIf you did marijuana, then you would go straight to prison\u201d It may seem silly nowadays to listen to what other little kids say but back then this confused the hell out of me to the point I develop anxiety. It hit me pretty hard because at the time my parents were fighting over custody over me and my siblings so I was already heartbroken as it was at the time. So adding the confusion of these pot stories wasn\u2019t helping. I know it wasn\u2019t the worst situation someone could be in but I was pretty mentally exhausting for a child.<\/p>\n

However to my surprise, when I got to high school it wasn\u2019t as tainted with drugs as I thought it was. I\u2019m not goanna lie; I did come across situations where I\u2019ve seen marijuana being used and even being offered to me, but the good thing is that it was only a couple of times. I always pondered why I wasn\u2019t exposed to dear old \u201cMarry Jane\u201d as much as I thought. Then I came across several articles reporting that many celebrities confess using marijuana in their daily lives, there was even an article saying that marijuana use was becoming \u201cMainstream\u201d. The plant was a main topic of jokes, shows, and even the reason why people come up with great ideas…..sometimes<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_BYn18OYt6U<\/p>\n

So the more and more I kept researching on the topic of marijuana, the more fascinated I became. Not to the point of deciding to use the plant, but just to the point I understand why people want it legalized. Even here at our school, there has been research showing that the drugs popularity is in a decline. http:\/\/news.utexas.edu\/2015\/07\/13\/marijuana-use-is-down-disapproval-is-up-among-young-teens<\/a><\/p>\n

Overall, my opinion has drastically changed however without sounding too contradicting; I still wouldn\u2019t see myself using it anytime soon. Not because of the reason mentioned earlier, I just don\u2019t want to use it plain and simple. I think pot has a lot more well use then people lead on. Hell if people want weed to be legalized, then let them. Let them be them, and you do you.<\/p>\n

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