No British show is going to discuss a marijuana habit, that's very much an American word. It's called cannabis
Yeah, this is the third time I'm seeing this reply and facepalming. I'm 99.99 percent sure that the narration I'm paraphrasing said "cannabis," and I just automatically translated it, when I made the meme.
Weirdly, I think I might be conflating a British-produced true crime show (which had that very innocent attitude toward weed because of extreme cannabis prohibition in the British Isles) and an American true crime show which had a similarly adorable attitude toward weed, just because it was targeted at an audience of VERY WHITE older people.
Which is outrageously incorrect, more than anything else. I mean, older people smoked a shitload of weed. If we're talking about Boomers, they are absolutely the generation of Americans who have smoked the most weed, over their lifetimes. But now they pretend like they've never even seen it before, and it's just another reason why we need to "close the border."
On that note, Americans use the word Marijuana because that was the Mexican Spanish word for cannabis and it was supposed to be stigmatizing to make it easier to ban in the US (those degenerate Mexicans were the ones corrupting our youth with this devil drug).
Such a long history of being so easily played by propaganda
In my experience Europeans fall into two drug taking categories, either they’ve never taken any or have done more drugs than any American that wasn’t a professional musician in 60s-70s or a professional wrestler in any era could survive
That's been my experience, too, actually. There are also some poor souls who just chug along, sadly smoking the cardboard-tier weed that they get, over there.
That sounds like you experienced organised crime’s commercial grade PGR weed. A real pity. Analogous to the wine industry our bud runs the entire gamut from bunk to top-tier here in Europe. Some of us do alright. Don’t you worry. (Source: over thirty years enjoyment of the world’s recreational wonders)
No British show would say this lol, this sounds American af
Marijuana, that classic British word...
That's my bad. I accidentally translated it. I'm sure the narration that I was paraphrasing said "cannabis" instead.
Laughs in alcohol at 18, legally
I'd rather be in a community with chronic weed smokers than alcoholics. A severe weed habit has it's faults, but pales in comparison to alcoholism.
Who’d want a society sitting on the couch eating a pizza and playing video games when you could have violent fighting everywhere?
100%. I'm from the UK and the drinking culture here is ridiculous. People don't just drink, they get wasted. My best friend died from alcohol abuse at 34.
There are people at my company who are very obviously alcoholics and spend the workday hungover or still drunk a lot of the time stinking of booze and that's totally fine apparently. But if I smoked weed at the weekend like I used to and came into work totally sober I'd test positive, get fired immediately, completely fuck my career prospects and very likely get a visit from the police trying to bust me. It is bullshit.
Brits never use the term marijuana. They're familiar with it from American media etc, but they call it Cannabis in UK and elsewhere.
You're completely right. I knew something didn't sound right, when I was replicating the narrator voice.
If you can get super high on weed and still commit crimes: I'd be impressed. Sometimes I get so high, I can't even put my shoes on right.
