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In general I feel men are pressured by society to NOT speak their minds about the issues they have about women publicly. If you don’t believe me then just see how often women post openly on social media about their relationship anger, frustrations, heartbreak, “sexism”, etc vs. how often men do it. However internally men feel all the exact same negative emotions but we are trained not to express them. It’s one of the reasons you see guys writing and posting more on GAG. The anonymity gives us a safer place to ventilate.

There are a few reasons why men are more restrained. Part of it is due to some of us being raised to be chivalrous to women. Unfortunately some women see this as weakness and take advantage of guys who instinctively treat women well. Also feminist propaganda says that a man expressing anger (verbally) is “threatening” and “words can be violence”. When it comes to heartbreak we get far less leeway to look like “bitches”. We train ourselves not to cry.

But seriously if men were allowed to speak their minds (including anger) it would actually be a safer way to ventilate. There would be less REAL violence, less depression, less substance abuse, etc. Just because a guy is pissed off it doesn’t mean he doesn’t have self restraint to not take things over the line.

What I mean is Canada’s legalized it. Mexico’s legalized it, several states in the US have legalized it, but very few places elsewhere have legalized it outside North America.

Why is that? Why is it mainly just a North American thing?

Anyway I’ve heard that medically marijuana has really helped some people in great pain it’s just I really feel as though there needs to be far more oversight of the industry.

It’s far too easy to get a medical card. All you need is a state ID to apply for a card and you can just BS your way through and say you’ve tried all sorts of therapies and medications to treat depression and anxiety and they will take you at your word and you don’t have to prove a thing.

I mean my friend from Texas even outright told me he lied his way through and got the med card just so he could have cheaper and stronger quality marijuana available.

But I highly doubt he’s the only one who has done that.

Anyway, the medical stuff can be really strong to a point that’s just unsafe.

While there haven’t been any recorded deaths from marijuana, as I found out the hard way, that doesn’t mean you can’t overdose on it and experience high levels of pain for hours on end.

Hell I went to the ER and they even told me that medically there is no way for them to flush out marijuana from a person’s system if they take too much.

You just have to let time pass and experience the pain for however long that could be. Potentially over 24 hours as was my case.

But I find it ironic how when you go to buy tobacco products from the store there’s a million warning labels about all the health complications that might result from use but absolutely nothing of the sort exists with weed.

I mean as I described in my whole op-ed here, it’s possible to overdose on weed. Yet they don’t even have warning labels about it on their product.

And not just that but apparently the stuff they sell in stores nowadays is about 3x stronger than the stuff hippies were consuming in the 70s and 80s.

I truly believe most people who talk like this are trying to cover something. Basic logic tells us that humans are social creatures and we naturally conform into a society. If you're ostracized by society, then it's going to significantly impact your life in a negative way. Human's who don't have a social life suffer from depression and some even go insane in periods of long term isolation. So of course we care what others think to an extent. That's in no way an admission to insecurity. Why do people need to go out of their way to say these things such as they don't give a shit about the acceptance of others?

Or I saw a question asking if people are afraid of death. Almost half of the people said that they're not afraid of death. Dude, I'm calling bullshit. I'm a ghetto street cop and my heart was pounding every time I had to pull out my weapon. All of my friends in the Marine Corps told me their first experience in combat, and it was all same story of them telling me that they were about to shit their pants. My best friend who's a firefighter tells me he practically shits his pants on some of the calls he goes on too. When I found out I had cancer, my heart literally stopped and I was emotionally numb for a good week. That's all scary shit. Even people who take their own lives are scared. You're telling me that your very existence on this planet being taken away does not evoke any emotion of fear? Bullshit. Are people trying act like they're tough by saying this?

I know there's a lot of other examples, but I guess you get the gist of what I'm getting at. It's like they're trying so hard to come across as confident or strong, that it pushes past the limits of what's actually rational.