Drug Use
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The Guardian : Ketamine, psychedelics, GHB: is the US falling out of love with cocaine?
Cocaine’s cultural status is framed as eroded and no longer aspirational, losing its symbolic legitimacy
[narrative_framing]: The article contrasts cocaine’s past glamor (Scarface, American excess) with its current irrelevance, especially among youth, to depict it as culturally obsolete
“Ever since cocaine first emerged as a popular party drug via the shores of Miami in the early 1970s, use of the stimulant has been inextricably entwined with the very essence of capitalist excess and what it is to be American: brash, bombastic and brazen.”
New York Post : Trump is sending a dangerously wrong message on weed
marijuana use is framed as socially illegitimate and morally degrading
The article condemns the removal of stigma around marijuana, associating users with 'unproductive, anti-social types' and invoking moral authority to resist normalization.
“Perhaps worst of all, the move helps remove the stigma of using a substance that most people have associate with unproductive, anti-social types.”