CNN: Miley Cyrus: "Weed is the best drug"

Miley Cyrus follows Madonna's "Lead" by Promoting the Dangerous Club Drug Ecstasy in the Mega Hit "We Can't Stop" AND goes One Step Beyond by Admitting She Lied to Her Fans!

Miley Cyrus just admitted to lying about the message in her song "We Can't Stop" admitting the song refers to the underground club drug ecstasy.  I guess we can thank Madonna for this as it was her who unveiled the nickname for ecstasy when she asked at a concert last year if anyone had seen "Molly." 

According to Zach, Zang and The Gang, the mega hit "caught a lot of flack for its overt drug references -- including a line that sounds like 'dancing with molly' (aka MDMA)."

Producers tried to sugarcoat it by saying listeners misunderstood the lyrics and that the words actually said "dancing with Miley."  Turns out Miley realized no one is buying it.

Miley told the Daily Mail, "If you're aged ten [the lyric is] Miley. If you know what I'm talking about then you know. I just wanted it to be played on the radio and they've already had to edit it so much. I don't think people have a hard time understanding that I've grown up. You can Google me and you know what I'm up to -- you know what the lyric is saying."  

Promoting a dangerous drug like ecstasy and acting like an out-of-control, rebellious child by lying about it to her own fans, is hardly something responsible grown ups would do.  One has to wonder how many kids have now taken this dangerous drug because Madonna made it known and Miley though it was a good idea to follow Madonna's lead and make it "popular." 

Opinion - By Monte Styles: Celebrities Continue to "Popularize" Drug Abuse, Especially Marijuana and in Miley Cyrus Case "Molly" as in Ecstasy

Monte Styles
Motivational Speaker, Trainer, Educator
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

It seems that a new celebrity joins the "Pot is Fun" campaign on a daily basis. This is contributing greatly to the fiction that marijuana is harmless and therefore should be legalized. If you are unaware of this phenomenon, simply look at the current media frenzy over Miley Cyrus' revelations about her own drug use and her wildly popular and bizarre music video entitled "We Can't Stop" (with numerous drug references and over 36 MILLION views on YouTube). 

Anyone who has watched her transformation from Hannah Montana to a druggie has to be frightened for her and all of the young people who idolize her. Last night, Cyrus discussed her marijuana-based friendship with Snoop Dogg on the Jimmy Kimmel show (a confessed pot smoker himself). "We're more alike than you think . . .  we're very similar," she said, to which Kimmel quipped, "That's because he's so high, he doesn't know what his name is." "Me too, so it’s fine. We both are," she responded, laughing. "That’s why we get along so well, I guess." 

The audience went wild with enthusiasm. 

Last week I had the opportunity to speak at the annual conference of the Association of Idaho Cities on the topic of "The Impacts of Marijuana Legalization" which included a summary of all of the cultural influences inflicted upon our young people by the pot lobbyists and other lovers of weed. 

In a question/answer session at the end, one public official mentioned the success of "shock and awe" messages used in the fight against methamphetamine and tobacco (proving that drug education really works when we do enough of it). I wholeheartedly agreed with this and noted that, in my experience, ADULTS are often overwhelmed when presented with all of the cultural influences surrounding their children. Although each of these can viewed as "relatively harmless" by themselves, the effect is shocking when viewed as a whole. 

My opinion is that the "shock and awe" part of the drug legalization fight is to show people what is actually happening in our culture through books, magazines, fashion, pot products, social media, cultural icons, celebrity endorsements, movies, television (even cartoons), music, websites, games, and blatant advertising by those who stand to make billions off of the pot culture. When adults are shown the real world of their children, they are often motivated to act (meaning fight against legalization through increased prevention and education). 

In the book, The Heart of Change, the author points out that change doesn't occur in society unless there is a sense of urgency. Like the pictures of meth addicts and lung cancer victims, popular culture can be used to identify a sense of urgency in communities that are otherwise prone to apathy on the subject. But they must first be made aware of what is happening.

Several decades ago, our country fought back against the popular culture of the 60s and 70s, and we had success in reducing overall drug use in America until pro-pot billionaires and national pro-drug lobbying organizations began a system-wide destruction of drug education - along with the abrogation of duty by our elected officials. 

Someday, when we come to our senses, the proponents of pot will be vilified like the tobacco industry, but not before we lose additional citizens in a stupefied haze of high THC content marijuana smoke. Until then, let’s do everything we can to wake America up before it is too late.

Monte Stiles is a  Motivational Speaker/Trainer/Educator


Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

Organized Crime/Drug Enforcement Task Force 

Miley Cyrus: Should we be Worried?

When young women who have amazing success in the public eye, one day cut off all their hair, die it a different color, dress and act provocatively and worst of all begin to act like others don’t matter, we should not ignore these warnings signs. 

Miley Cyrus has changed so much, she is barely recognizable in both her craft and her style.  What was once a glamorous super star has morphed into a dubious pixie who is now promoting sex, drugs and rap.  Whether this is a joke or not, her recent appearance at a gas station with a t-shirt that promoted sex, drugs and rap, leaves us to wonder if she even realizes young people who idolize her are watching.  Does Miley realize they are watching?

The bottom line is it’s just not funny, whether it’s a joke or not.