Oct. 27th, 2009

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So some of the schools I work at are celebrating Red Ribbon Week this week, which is a weeklong focus on drug prevention. It includes wearing a red ribbon with an anti-drug message on it for a day.

In the meantime, this very week, Looney Labs sent out an e-mail about their new website (not for children) with the Stoner Fluxx game. If you buy the game, part of the proceeds go toward organizations that support legalizing Marijuana.

The weird thing is, I find myself agreeing with messages on both sides. There's the, "Hey, kids. Drugs are bad," message, and there is the, "Marijuana should be legal" message. And both make sense to me.

But it makes it hard to decide whether or not I should wear the ribbon tomorrow.

Maybe it has to do with a distinction Looney Labs makes when it has a separate site for adults only where it sells Stoner Fluxx (it makes you tell it your birthday before you can see it, not that you can't lie to it, but it's trying to send a message). Maybe we need to tell kids that drugs are bad, but tell other adults that one or two of them should still be legal?

Anyway, so my brain is apparently capable of agreeing with two viewpoints at the same time, even if they contradict each other. Go figure.

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