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As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by lovehashbrowns »

blazingfrog2 wrote: post #444
lovehashbrowns wrote: post #371

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I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living. Particularly when it just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. The world around you revolves around people that clock in and out day after day. Maybe one day we’ll have 7.5 billion CEOs in the world, huh?

> I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living Discounting the counter productive condescension required to be the one putting the other guy down, we should all be honest with a simple fact: any typical software dev (just talking about what I know) can succeed at a gas station job while the reverse is not true. This obviously does not afford the software dev the ri…

I know I couldn’t do it. I’m good when it comes to tech stuff because it clicks with my brain and I enjoy it. I’ve worked these sorta jobs before. I did a bit of construction for a summer, and I worked a catering job for a few years. Chicago’s summer heat, humid, standing in front of an open flame for 6-12 hours—absolutely not. I came home utterly destroyed. The person I worked for absolutely loves it, though. He’s self-employed, works only on the weekends, is immensely proud of the food he cooks, and has been doing it for decades. Great guy to work for. If you wanna get paid cash and you love cooking, that’s a great job. I would absolutely never ever look down on someone that’s putting in work like that. Me personally, I’m not physically or mentally equipped for that sorta work long-term. And that’s fine.

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Post by elevaet »

lovehashbrowns wrote: post #371
julianlam wrote: post #340

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It's a nice line of thinking, sure—that you can achieve happiness and contentment without having to strive for the "best". That's the whole point of the matter though, isn't it, that if you don't have ambition, then you voluntarily get yourself stuck in a rut of your making. "I'm content in that my life is shitty in X or Y way, but cannot do anything about it". There was a time when I found comfort in thinking that I…

I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living. Particularly when it just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. The world around you revolves around people that clock in and out day after day. Maybe one day we’ll have 7.5 billion CEOs in the world, huh?

Completely agree about not putting people down.

But I do think the world is a better place with more "CEOs" running independent taco joints, and less Tacobells.

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Post by elevaet »

Psyonic wrote: post #419
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Can confirm. Two of my kids use THC pretty regularly and they seem content with a life that is paying the bills but not really leading anywhere. The third does not (AFAIK) and is on a much higher trajectory. All had pretty much the same upbringing, rules, experiences, and discipline. I've never used it, so don't have personal experience.

I have seen this, but on the flip-side, the most successful person I know (and they are quite successful) is also the biggest stoner I know.

I've also met some extremely productive weed smokers. It seems like most people become lulled into a hazey life, but there are these idiosyncratic responders who smoke copious amounts and are fully on top of their game.

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lacker wrote: post #57

The real danger with cannabis is not that it'll make you sick or have some nasty side effect like this article describes. The danger is simply that you will like it, you'll end up using it every day, all different times of the day, and it won't really hurt your health as much as it will make you live your life in a somewhat dopey, detached, less-intelligent way. As time goes on it won't feel "fun" it'll just feel "no…

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Post by pmoriarty »

akhmatova wrote: post #530
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Cannabis and jogging make a lovely combination.

Lovely? Based on what it's doing to your lungs and circulatory system, I'd put it more in the "it rocks, until it doesn't" category.

You don't have to smoke cannabis to use it. You could eat or drink it, which does nothing to your lungs, afaik.

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Post by vineyardmike »

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I am in the same boat… there is a serious lack of education. It’s like the pendulum has swung completely the other way from drug abstinence, and now there is tons of disinfo claiming weed is harmless and non-addictive when that’s not the true story. I’m still in favor of legalization, but cannabis needs some of the regulations we apply to tobacco. Producers shouldn’t be able to make packaging that looks like a bag of…

Because children will think smoking weed is like eating a candy bar? I don't know of any place that allows selling to minors or even allowing them in the store. What good is changing wrappers when kids don't shop in those places? Cannabis has stronger laws compared to tobacco already. Plenty of medical and church related pamphlets exist. What do you think is missing? The truth is you grew up and turned into your pare…

> Because children will think smoking weed is like eating a candy bar?

Yes and no.

Yes. Kids sometimes find parents/adult things and think it’s candy and eat it. Parents should be careful blah blah blah. Parents make mistakes. Kids are crafty at rifling though cabinets. Making something look like candy increases the odds kids eat it by mistake.

But also by making things taste good (esp addictive or habit forming things) you’ll increase the ease at building the habit. Ask Juul how that’s going. That’s the whole idea behind menthol cigarettes and mango vapes. Make the habit easier. Even for adults.

Cannabis has stronger laws around distribution and dosing… tobacco has way stronger packaging and advertising laws. You can’t make nicotine candies, you can’t use shiny flashy colors, you can’t make fun ads etc. You can do that with cannabis.

> The truth is you grew up and turned into your parents

Sometimes you grow up and find out adults knew a few things about the world.

You can think cannabis and drugs should be legal without thinking it shouldn’t have basic regulation to protect people from themselves and from the product. We have plenty of other laws for other products to prevent bad advertisement or to include warning labels.

For what it’s worth, I personally think we should require things like edibles to be low dosage and packaged with warnings but I think we should still allow candies and fun packaging. But I’m a sucker for a cool package and maybe that’s the point…

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Post by fshbbdssbbgdd »

palmetieri2000 wrote: post #518
blazingfrog2 wrote: post #432

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> I'd be proud of it, if they were a good person, took care of themselves I honestly don't know how anyone (good person or not) can properly take care of themselves on a Taco Bell hourly salary.

Yes, It is the workers fault that they do not get enough funds to properly take care of themselves while working full time. Really dumb take.

Is the implication that we should promote cannabis to help people be content living low on the hierarchy in capitalism? Whose side are we on here?

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Post by hirvi74 »

Hellion wrote: post #467

This article makes some incredible leaps. Marijuana addiction is an under-recognized problem, but the implication that a kid killed himself because he had a weed addiction is incredibly misleading. > After several stays at mental hospitals, the doctors determined that Johnny had a severe case of THC abuse, Ms. Stack said. He was prescribed an anti-psychotic medication, which helped — but then he stopped taking it. In…

I would imagine if Johnny didn't have mental health issues in the first place, he wouldn't have abused THC in the first place.

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Post by effingwewt »

honkycat wrote: post #451
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This is how I cope. My brain runs away with me, coupled with OCD (people love to romanticize it byt forget about the obsessive/compulsive part). With that and depression and anxiety, the meds prescribed to me were insane, as were the side effects (many permanent too- fuck that). Weed was the lesser of the evils. I don't drink because aside from the fact that I hate the taste of alcohol, what I really detest is the lo…

You should look into Zoloft. A lot of my friends and family take it for anxiety. It is a pretty safe, minor, and not intense anxiety medication that I hear has a bit of a funky/fun edge to it. I was gonna start on it next month to try it out.

I did, but one of the side effects it had for me was it killed my sex drive completely. I know in the grand scope of things it may not be important, and maybe I'm being a child, but if I'm being honest I can't handle that on top of goings-on.

I had a friend get a permanent twitch from it, too, but of the people that I know that take it (that I know of), those are the only bad side effects I've really heard of.

On top of that it can still be very physically addictive and hard to wean off of.

I do thank you greatly, I had been pretty excited to try it. I hope it works out for you, I just seem to catch nasty side effects.

May it work for you and your days be peaceful!

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Post by oaththrowaway »

aaaaaaaaata wrote: post #176
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> For people that use vaporizers like mine, you also need to have a certain amount for the vaporizer to be effective otherwise you get nothing out of it You probably know this but just in case, some vapes are better for microdosing than others and will work with just a pinch. > Unfortunately finding the low-dose stuff seems to be very difficult. What I've been doing is buying CBD flower online (usually <$75 per/ounce…

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