I'm sorry if you've ever encountered a group of people who have pressured you to do a substance, and if it was cannabis, then I'm doubly sorry for having that ruined for you.

On behalf of /r/askscience, /r/trees and /r/drugs I deeply apologize. Seriously, it truly angers me knowing that a group of people exist who have done, and probably still do it to others.

However, if you still think I'm "missing the point" then I'll clarify. These are the comments you posted which I took issue with:

Yes, so not doing drugs is misguided and bad and obviously the result of a poor education. Has anyone ever considered that some people don't actually care for drugs, or the culture that surrounds them? There are different types of people in the world.

First of all it seems like you purposefully misconstrued what the previous poster said. If this is not true than I apologize, but that's truly what it seems like.

Secondly, the reason you should care about drugs is because for the most part... drugs are amazing. Modern science has come a long way, and from the drugs we put in our food, to the drugs we put in our water, we're hand-picking like never before the best chemicals we can find in this world to enhance our lives. How do drugs benefit your life? Well for starters... antibiotics. There are all kinds of medicines, for all types of ailments... but we're still working on treating all types of bacterium, viruses, and pathogens in every form. In order to tackle these new challenges, new drugs are sometimes needed.

I know people who need Cannabis simply to steady their nerves enough to talk. If these medicines were legal, then I'd have no problem with you getting into a huff about "the culture of drugs" and shit, but until then I'll continue to post the facts so people can make up their own mind over who's getting hurt more. You, who's fully functioning and has the time to rant about how annoying ents can be when they talk about something they love; or the guy who can't physically speak up for himself until someone starts his vaporizer for him.

...so not doing drugs is misguided and bad and obviously the result of a poor education.

Someone who thinks they don't do drugs is indeed, poorly educated about drugs. Humans needs drugs to survive, it's the choice of which drugs we use which is the focus of debate.

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Edit: Honestly I think this is largely an argument over syntax, if Karmastocracy's post had just been:

You can't blame someone for doing what they think is healthy.

I don't think either of us would have been lured into debate. I think what annoyed you was how closely this statement was paired with "misinformed", and given your personal experience I can see why you commented about it. Still you've got to concede that the general public knows absolutely shit about science, so he's definitely got a point.

After reading through your last post, it's clear we agree on much more than I initially thought. This specifically:

If I say I'm not interested in partaking a substance- not because I believe it to have any negative effects, because it doesn't- but because I personally am not interested, I don't like others pressuring to partake, regardless of whether it's MJ, alcohol, tobacco, or some other substance.

Spot on.

And when I turn down marijuana, or say I don't use it, many people automatically assume it's because I have misconceptions about it. I don't. I just am not interested in partaking. Is it hard to believe that?

That's not hard to believe for me at all, my brother is the exact same way. I'm sorry you've been surrounded by such a jerk group of "ents" (not ents in my book) but I still stand behind my previous statements. To clarify one last time, I generally agree with everything you've posted... the only comment I take issue with is this one:

Yes, so not doing drugs is misguided and bad and obviously the result of a poor education. Has anyone ever considered that some people don't actually care for drugs, or the culture that surrounds them? There are different types of people in the world.

While I definitely understand why you would make a statement like this after those your experience with those "ents", it's just such an extreme overreaction to the comment before it that I had to comment. Honestly, I've never run into the type of person who actually promotes recreational drug use like that, but it sounds like you know more than one person like this... and while I can sympathize, I just wish you wouldn't take out your frustration on the people trying to help.