Americans Say Marijuana Is Less Cool Than Math And Country Music—But Is Cooler Than Guns Or Cryptocurrency, Survey Shows - Marijuana Moment
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Marijuana legalization might be a popular policy issue in recent polls, but most Americans don’t think cannabis itself is “cool,” according to a new survey. In fact, marijuana is considered less cool than things like sourdough bread, country music, math, word games and reading books. The YouGov poll looked at public opinion on the subjective […]
  • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hypothesis: cannabis culture experienced a snap-back effect. For a long time in the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s, smoking weed was associated with rebellion. It was often seen in the same circles as minority groups fighting oppression, young college students and other openminded thinkers, bohemians or alternative lifestyle sports like skating and surfing.

    But then it became legal, and lost its rebellious edge. And it turns out that rebellion was really all it had going for it in the culture. Yeah, openminded black skateboarders protesting the government are cool. But smoking weed is just smoking weed. And if you kept trying to say that smoking weed was cool… well, is it?

    The reality is, when most people smoke, their conversations become less coherent, and they become less interested in doing things like meeting new people, making plans, or leaving the house. And what they become more interested in is typically watching tv and eating snacks. Which isn’t cool.

    So not only is weed not cool, but thinking it is cool is even less cool.