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I use gummies, ~4-5mg THC (ideally with some of the other TH- chemicals in it), deliberately kept my tolerance low so it doesn’t get more expensive (and I almost only use it for sleep, purely “fun” use is maybe a couple days a year). Take in the evening, start an MST3K episode about an hour later, really enjoy the back half of it, go to bed and fall asleep instantly, wake up feeling like a million bucks. Perfect even…
I see a lot of people using weed for better sleep, but isn't weed supposed to interfere with REM states? I thought that weed would have the opposite effect that you say. Do you dream if you use weed before bed?
Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
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Re: Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
#122Marijuana legalization arguments were my first introduction to motivated reasoning. I was pretty inclined to agree that locking up non-violent drug offenders was a net-harm to society. But, the pro-legalization folks would argue patently crazy things: it cures cancer, the smoke isn't bad for you at all, there are no downsides! etc. It seemed obvious to me that you could make a more realistic argument and just stick t…
Re: Large study finds link between cannabis use in teens and psychosis later
#123"Study: Older Cannabis Users Have Larger Brains, Better Cognition" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895950
How to manage cognitive dissonance on this? How to avoid counterproductive black-and-white thinking?
How to assess the relative strength of evidence of two or more scholarly articles about cannabis?
What did they control for? Were they randomly assigned to treatment groups? Was it a triple-blind RCT: Randomized Controlled Trial? Which groups were masked?
Does years of irrational persecution for cannabis compound to debilitating psychosis which indicates?