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Just a few years ago cannabis was presented online as a miracle drug that could cure all physical and psychological diseases. Any criticism of the sacred cannabis was strictly forbidden and dissenters were burned alive in the figurative fire of social media. Interesting how times are changing.
I wonder about all the confounding effects. In my country (famous for cannabis to be easy to come by (for decades already), and I saw many smoke from age 16 up as I grew up in 90's, 00's). I have always felt that the heavy cannabis smokers had something to compensate; stress, unrest, impending depression, friction with parents. It was never the healthy sporty types with fulfilling relationships, good grades or a nice…
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> lazy pothead But not all potheads are lazy, and many non-potheads are. Media tropes sure are great at propagating myths and generating false stigma, which creates a chilling effect for ever correcting the former. https://thereitis.org/mr-x-by-carl-sagan
I find it interesting how many people come out of the wood work to make disparaging comments about people who use cannabis whenever the subject of cannabis use comes up on HN. Having lived in a country where cannabis has been legal for about a decade now it's quaint seeing this kind of casual disrespect levelled by a stranger. I wonder if this kind of mindset is still common here and people just don't vocalize it any…
It's actually not even just HN. I've noticed this with many people in real life (US).
It's especially strong with the subset of Boomers who never used it. They make it part of their personality to have not used it, while often fully embracing alcohol and ignoring all of the personal and societal risks it brings. Surely they pass this mentality onto their kids with a 50% success rate.
Maybe it's some kind of inferiority/superiority compensation mechanism for not being a hippy like their rival sibling was, etc.
for the anxiety crowd: don't buy street weed and avoid sativas about the 'study': I do not trust anything that comes out of meta studies given how many base studies are found to be either garbage or very lacking in controls. And without knowing an accurate life history it is hard to rule out or quantify damages done much earlier in life.
I don't think blanket advice like this is helpful. For me indicas increase my anxiety significantly while sativas do the opposite.
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If people are this concerned about heart health, they'd be wise to continue a zero-covid lifestyle into 2026 and beyond, since each re-infection (which vaccines don't prevent) increases the risk of severe health outcomes, including heart-related issues among lots of others. Yet I only see about .5-1% of the population in my area these days wearing any kind of mask/N95 respirator in public.
Doesn't this apply to colds and flus too?
Anybody curious might consider scanning the sticky posts on /r/zerocovidcommunity for more information and links to external sources.
I would assume that cannabis use correlates with a few other important heart health variables and we would expect the odds ratio to be lower when accounting for those (alcohol doesn't have an OR more than 1.0, tobacco smoking ~1.5)
I'm sure that cannabis use is bad for cardio health but the reported odds ratio is very high. I personally do not use cannabis.
I wonder about all the confounding effects. In my country (famous for cannabis to be easy to come by (for decades already), and I saw many smoke from age 16 up as I grew up in 90's, 00's). I have always felt that the heavy cannabis smokers had something to compensate; stress, unrest, impending depression, friction with parents. It was never the healthy sporty types with fulfilling relationships, good grades or a nice…
Yeah I think for any of the significant pot smokers I've known it's a way of avoiding other issues. As a positive it's probably much better they descend into pot than alcohol which I'm sure many would if it was the only other easy coping mechanism.
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> lazy pothead But not all potheads are lazy, and many non-potheads are. Media tropes sure are great at propagating myths and generating false stigma, which creates a chilling effect for ever correcting the former. https://thereitis.org/mr-x-by-carl-sagan
I find it interesting how many people come out of the wood work to make disparaging comments about people who use cannabis whenever the subject of cannabis use comes up on HN. Having lived in a country where cannabis has been legal for about a decade now it's quaint seeing this kind of casual disrespect levelled by a stranger. I wonder if this kind of mindset is still common here and people just don't vocalize it any…
for the anxiety crowd: don't buy street weed and avoid sativas about the 'study': I do not trust anything that comes out of meta studies given how many base studies are found to be either garbage or very lacking in controls. And without knowing an accurate life history it is hard to rule out or quantify damages done much earlier in life.
>> for the anxiety crowd: don't buy street weed and avoid sativas I don't think blanket advice like this is helpful. For me indicas increase my anxiety significantly while sativas do the opposite.