Opinions and Oppositions: Week 2

Hi readers, I hope you’re enjoying your snow day (and you didn’t lose power so you can read this!)

This week on Opinions and Oppositions, I decided to join a few “Anti-Marijuana” groups or pages on Facebook and see what I discovered. I few rules before I begin:

1.    The Page/Group must have at least 100 members or followers.
2.    The Page/Group cannot be a parody account.
3.    The account has posted within the last 60 days.

Hypothesis: Finding a group will be easy, and the actual posts will be based on religious beliefs and not based off facts. Based off what I’ve learned from friends, members of the military may also be in the groups even though I believe it will be mostly parents involved in these groups and pages.


Results: Finding a group to join was difficult. Many of the pages I looked at were spam accounts, only had 2 or 3 members, or hadn’t posted in years. I discovered that searching on Facebook wasn’t enough, so I went searching for websites with Facebook accounts opposing marijuana.

The page I focused on is titled CALM or Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana, based out of California. This group has over 1,000 followers and the last post was today. Many of the posts involved people being arrested on Marijuana related charges in states where it is legal to smoke or sell weed. What I found interesting is that per the pages “About Me” the purpose of the group is to prevent abuse, yet many of the posts seem to be very against Marijuana in general.

Overall, I was wrong about finding a page about “Anti-Marijuana”. Many pages with a good following were pages mostly of sarcastic memes and that’s something I didn’t think was going to happen. I had to put in a lot of work to find a practical page. I’m curious if this is a reflection on the internet or if more people think it should be legal than you’d think. What do you think?

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