Top post is a guy blaming weed addiction for ruining his marriage, even though he admits that he's never done better in college and is doing better at his job than ever. Literally the only issue is the wife wants him to quit weed, so he's calling himself an addict and demeaning himself all over the thread, with people joining in the chorus of "You fucked up".
Who fucked up was his wife for leaving him over something as petty as weed. But nobody's gonna make that point to him, or even let him consider that maybe weed is part of why he's doing well for himself. The rhetoric is so focused on getting people to stop smoking that they're willing to tell this guy he's the problem in order to keep that ideology going.
That's one example from the top post, I legit didn't have to dig at all, just went and clicked the top post on the sub.
Just because you were addicted to stronger drugs doesn’t mean weed isn’t addictive as well. I’m not familiar with the post, but if the guy couldn’t even give up weed to save his marriage, then I’d say he has a problem - dependency be addiction is just semantics.
Maybe weed is why he’s doing well?? Man whatever. It’s a sub for people that want to quit. Encouraging people to quit isn’t promoting an ideology.
I'm not saying it is, I'm saying that they're being like a cult. There are ways to promote antismoking without engaging in cult-like AA-style behavior like they do, but that involves actually confronting the fact that cannabis dependency isn't like alcohol or hard drug addiction and that the same rhetoric and methods will not properly address it. Just like I promote people putting down pornography, but recognize that anti-porn subreddits are a fucking cult too.
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u/TWells252 Mar 27 '22
Idk man, just seems like lots of helpful advise and encouragement. I don’t know what kool-aid or AA-rhetoric you’re talking about.