It sure is a good thing he quit smoking that deadly killer demon-weed marijuana and stuck to safer legal substances like propane gas. If he would have stuck to that poisonous plant marijuana he may have died! Better to go with what is legal and safe, than illegal and known for it's millions of deaths.

Keep marijuana illegal, it keeps children from trying all dangerous things.



In all seriousness, sorry to the friends/family of that person. Just remember, the more restricted people are, the less educated they are about what they are restricted from and the less they will trust you when you say something is bad, regardless of if it is dangerous or safe or addictive. If people have problems with something that is illegal, they are not open to talk to people about it. When people are addicted to something legal, they an get help without fear.

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"Kids are killing themselves with this stuff," he said. "It has got to stop."

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What are they going to do? ban propane? whats next? ban gasoline and oil and cars and airplanes and trains and food and water... come on... Get real people. If you want it to stop, talk to your children, don't go out declaring things need to be banned! Realize children grow up into adults and don't believe in Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny and will make their own choices because it is their life. If they want to kill themselves consuming something you don't agree with, that's not up to you, it is THEIR life. What if your favorite food was pizza and some kid died because he choked on pizza and people banned pizza to keep children safe, do you understand?

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But the trouble grew more serious in recent months. His parents said he was caught smoking marijuana and consequently enrolled in counseling and drug education classes. He had to undergo drug testing while he was in counseling, too, and he passed every time, his father said.

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Even things as seemingly innocent as air freshener or computer cleaner could be signs of trouble, he said.

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"Kids are killing themselves with this stuff," he said. "It has got to stop."

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illuminati said:

I bet his parents will never be able to deal with watching King of the Hill ever again.

In all seriousness though, it seems pretty obvious the drug education classes drove him to do this.  I'd even wager money he learned about huffing in one of those classes.  Though, I cannot think of a single person I know who would be dumb enough to huff propane of all things.

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PeterGriffin467 said:

I dont even feel one bit sad for this kid, his parents yea but him nope.  One less idiot in the world.

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wowitch17 said:

kids should be forced to read datura trip reports from erowid instead of attending DARE

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FujiFlame said:

PeterGriffin467 said:

I dont even feel one bit sad for this kid, his parents yea but him nope.  One less idiot in the world.

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Some of you are being pretty ridiculous about this.  A kid makes one mistake and he deserves to die?  You're pathetic.

I made some mistakes as a teenager including taking drugs I shouldn't have such as crack or duster just for the sake of getting high.  I even landed myself in the hospital with pills, almost killing myself.  Needless to say, after that I was a little more careful about what I took, but I still persisted on the quest to escape.  In that journey I found mushrooms, which completely redefined my perspective of life and the world.  Life has been...definitely not perfect, but well worth experiencing ever since.  It's unfortunate that this person's life had to be taken before he found salvation.  A whole life gone unexperienced...  I can't say that he would have turned around at any point, but I gotta tell you - I was pretty goddamn deep into misery and depression, taking drugs not caring whether I lived or not...to be able to turn around from that and happily live a life free of drugs?  It happened to me...I hate knowing that someone missed the same opportunity.

Every time I look back on it, I consider myself more and more lucky.  There were plenty of times where I could have been that person who killed himself.  Instead, I'm now someone that, if you met me, you'd never know that such stupid, dangerous decisions tainted my past.  I'm a very successful person - not financially, but simply as a human being...as a friend, as a lover, as a thinker, as an artist...  So are you going to sit there and tell me that I deserved to die when I made one or two bad decisions?  That the life I've been living for years shouldn't have ever been all because I was miserable enough to smoke crack or inhale duster a couple of times?  Get an ounce of appreciation for the roller coaster of a journey that human life can be and think it UNFORTUNATE when one of us, especially so young and clueless, loses the opportunity to live the journey in full.  I know I feel like life didn't even begin until I was almost 20, so he may not have even made it as far as starting...

The other thing about this...HE'S A FUCKING KID.  I've made similar arguments before and I've already gotten the response of "not everyone is an idiot when they're a teen" and I get that, but people are just different and raised in different environments, etc.  I was raised in fucking CHURCH for the first 15 years of my life, told I was a Christian all along the way.  I gotta tell you, my world flipped upside-down when my parents divorced, we stopped going to church, and I realized that there wasn't a big guy in the sky watching every little thing I did.  It was a big slap in the face of "everything you thought about the world for the last 15 years? yeah, it's a bunch of bull".  Not only that, but I'd always been shy and introverted; I was a gamer for years.  There was a lot about the world that I just didn't have a grasp on, but I wasn't stupid...  So in a lot of ways I feel I got the short end of the stick, having to relearn everything about the world and people, and it resulted in some awkward situations and arguably unwise decisions.  But you know what they say: "Wise decisions are learned through unwise decisions".

Also, there are some dumber people out there NOT huffing shit, many further along in years and ACTUALLY THE PEOPLE THEY WILL BE FOR MUCH OF THEIR LIVES.  This kid?  Didn't even have the chance to find himself, I'm sure.  Plenty of teenagers make mistakes, some mistakes worse than others.  A kid kills his dad over something menial or some shit?  Yeah, that's a pretty twisted individual that probably shouldn't be walking the streets.  But a kid inhales some propane?  He's just trying to get high, folks!  Yeah, bad thing to do it with, but you're looking at the wrong thing here.  He was probably depressed, desperate for the high, and didn't care if he lived or not, the result of a twisted perspective that, ideally, could have been altered/fixed.  It's unfortunate that someone or something couldn't have intervened before it was too late.  He did not deserve to die.

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