As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

Post by aaaaaaaaata » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:06 PM UTC

barbazoo wrote: post #163

murat124 wrote: post #132

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The thing with cannabis (with THC) is that it makes doing nothing OK so you may realize after some time of daily use that you have accepted doing nothing as a legit activity, contrarily when not high you'd either do something to utilize that time or may feel bad that you have nothing to do (bored). Cannabis has not much of physical addiction properties which is great yet one day you may find 10 years have got behind…

I can't really relate to this. There is a spectrum of how high you get. Maybe we should distinguish between getting super stoned, just sitting on the couch watching TV and smoking half a joint, going for a walk in nature and listen to music or cook or bake.

Post by aaaaaaaaata » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:26 PM UTC

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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…

Watched my dad struggle with this for much of his life. Smoked (cigarettes) from 12 until his early 50s, and pot from some point early in life until late 50s. Struggled for years to quit both, but he says the pot was harder to give up. It may not be a physiological addiction, but you can sure develop a strong habitual/emotional dependency. Certainly watching him struggle with it was enough to make me never want to go…

Post by officeplant » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:33 PM UTC

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officeplant wrote: post #290

"teens are getting sick vaping the strongest shit we've ever created" Well no shit. I'm an adult that has smoked weed for 15 years now and even in my late 30's I can't handle more than a few hits of concentrated wax/oils. How is this any different from 15 year olds sneaking their parents everclear to make some strong punch? Is it the drugs fault or the fact that we suck at keeping substances out of the hands of minor…

Its the drugs fault. If the drug causes negative effects on a large subset of the people who use them, that is a problem with the drug.

Post by nradov » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

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There's distance and then there's distance . You can be a serious endurance athlete but focus on shorter races, with judicious use of low-impact cross training to reduce the risk of injuries while still building an aerobic base.

I only have done a few marathon or longer races. When I was running regularly I would do 25-30 miles a week. It is doing that for decades which messes you up eventually.

Post by officeplant » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 1:50 PM UTC

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photochemsyn wrote: post #19

This line has been reliably trotted out every few years since the 1990s at least: But experts say today’s high-THC cannabis products — vastly different than the joints smoked decades ago — are poisoning some heavy users, including teenagers. The issue is that people adjust their consumption accordingly, just as with alcohol - drinking one liter of beer, everyone knows, is not the same as drinking one liter of vodka.…

The problem is that it's almost impossible to find the "beer" of weed now. Almost all weed has been upgraded to be super powered. If I want a joint, I have to use tobacco or catnip to fill it out unless I want to be steaming. I also think that the weed culture is hostile against suggestions of problems. Almost every time I have spoken about possible dangers of weed, even when presenting peer reviewed articles or meta…