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Anecdote, data, yadda yadda. This is precisely why pot has a very infrequent place in my life. In my misspent youth, I came to the same realization: when I was smoking weed frequently, I had no problem just doing nothing with my life. Edit: on the flip side, I have come up with some really cool solutions to problems after having a bit. But it'll never be a frequent thing for me again, precisely because of the probabi…
>Anecdote, data, yadda yadda. Sorry, are you waving away the comparative value of hard data and personal experience? > when I was smoking weed frequently, I had no problem just doing nothing with my life Sounds like pot isn't for really you then. I'd even be OK with a statement like "A danger of pot is that some people find it makes them OK with being bored". But making sweeping generalizations that don't apply to ev…
> Sorry, are you waving away the comparative value of hard data and personal experience?
Absolutely! Not because I don't see value in data, but because my personal experience is all I have to go from. A cursory lit review didn't come up with any hard data for or against that specific proposition (that marijuana makes you ok with being bored). The closest I found was:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723942/
Which suggests that among their N=634 marijuana users, ~25% reported boredom as a motivation for smoking.
I absolutely agree that we should have credible data to use both for education and policy making! The unfortunate part of our current legal situation is that it's incredibly difficult to study those things directly.