Everything we consume, we need to consume in moderation. Just like other foods if you can control your self and not be carried away by anything you can feel happiness. We shouldnt blame some of our problems on pot. But pot makes us become aware of our problem.
More Americans report near-constant cannabis use
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#382The new business model of the big tobacco and a ground breaking solution to poverty and unemployment, the handicapped junkie citizen willing to throw away liberty for pot or smokes. I smell a new Nobel in economics.
Pretty soon we'll get a Jule (sounds like jewel, not sure on spelling) combined with weed and we can get the handicapped junkie citizen on pot AND smokes.
PAX (maker of the juul) already makes the Era line of pods for weed, too late.
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#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's the CBD, and no, I'm not distracted - I know that feeling well :) It's reasonable to be skeptical - I get some kind of pushback every time I mention this. I'm not high when it happens. And it's not a moment - at least one time was over ten minutes, involved parking a car, doing some shopping and who the fuck knows what else. I spent an hour searching for my car. And it's never happened, ever, unless I'd smok…
I see. The plot thickens :-) Based on what you're saying, my best guess for what is happening is that the memory issue might be correlated to the CBD intake but not caused by it. i.e., maybe you are taking the CBD to cope with a period of high stress or anxiety, and it's the anxiety which is causing the short-term memory loss. There is a fair amount of research correlating intense emotional stress with changes in mem…
No, not anxiety. No different amount of stress from other times. I was taking it primarily for chronic pain syndrome, that I suffered from for several years.
Yes, I've tested it. Yes, it's the CBD. Yes, nobody else has ever said they've experienced this symptom.
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#384Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the thoughtful input, and I'm certainly taking your anecdotes as advice. In fact, taking a break seems like a good idea, I'll have to work this into my life sometime soon. However I have to be honest, my life has never been more successful than it currently is. Not to say it would be more so if I wasn't a daily user, but hopefully you see my point. No need to respond if you're not comfortable, but in what…
It's tough.. Not only was I a pothead, I was an advocate. I grew and supplied dispensaries with flowers and edibles. I'm not saying weed should be banned but I think we need a rational discussion on it. I understand your feelings. My salary peaked in the midst of my binge. I was a (in my circle) somewhat of a rockstar, making tons of money, working an easy job. It's the classic story of the tortoise and the hare thou…
Wow. I have been delving in my own delusional mind for far too long. For me, this really is the truth that has been hiding in the mist of denial. Thanks for sharing.
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#385I think it's a mistake to legalize cannabis and continue to treat it like any other consumer product, opening the floodgates to gratuitous advertisements and dubious health claims. Instead, the sale of cannabis (and perhaps other drugs) should be treated as a public health issue, where the sale is permitted as long as it isn't advertised and proper information is given about the product. The Netherlands partly has th…
As long as you are also willing to do the same with alcohol, which I would absolutely argue is a much more damaging drug to both the individual and society at large.
Can you cite any research that would support your argument that alcohol is much more damaging to the individual?
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#386Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand this. Me and everyone I know that smoke pot regularly don't sit around doing nothing. The people I know who do nothing don't smoke pot. They finish their days and sit around in front of the TV drinking booze until they passout. Or wake up when they don't work and start drinking. The people I know who regularly smoke pot are motivated, usually have good jobs or run successful businesses, have hobbie…
So people who abuse both weed and alcohol concurrently aren't generally super productive? What a shock. I'm pretty sure almost any drug is not very good for you if you do it every single day, including the legal ones.
Ya that's kind of my view on things. I've even seen people abuse exercising to the point of breaking their bodies, know of people who abused porn and masturbation until it wrecked their lives and couldn't form proper relationships or maintain ones they had, workaholics who neglect their lives and families, people who have lost themselves in MMO's and alienated their friends and put their jobs at risk.
On the complete opposite spectrum i've read stories of people maintaining heroin addictions for decades while holding down respectable jobs and and families, respected scientists or business owners who spark up a joint the moment they get home, people who spent much of their young lives doing ridiculous amounts of drugs but ended up pretty alright in the end.
Anything can become an addiction if you let it and even without addictions life itself requires concious effort to make good positive choices every day. Whatever you do in life I feel like as long as you're striving to better yourself, have a positive impact in the world and just generally contribute positively to existence and much as you can, you're probably doing alright.
The world's a hard, fucked.up place. Everybody's different and everybody's situation's different. Things that are serious life hampering problems for some are that little something that takes away the harshness of life for others.
That guy sitting drunk on the street asking you to listen to him may have been sober for years and less than a half hour ago he watched his whole life unravel before him and for the first time in years turned to a bottle of whiskey. A dude on the street approached me recently and asked.me to listen to him, so I sat for a bit while he talked to me....that's what had just happened to him. We talked for a bit, I told him about some of the thing's I'd gone through in the year before that and by the end of talking with me, he'd decided that what was happening to him wasn't worth waking up tomorrow and turning to whiskey. Apparently i was the first person to even acknowledge him let alone listen.
I dunno you can't judge other people's lives. You don't understand the things they've gone through or what they've.experienced. There's reasons for everything, sometimes they're hard to understand but there is.
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#387Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not every, there are at least 22 above the US according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_with_Life_Index
So any society below those 22 on the "Satisfaction with life index" is "deeply broken"? I think you're missing the point; I'm not saying that the US is the most super awesome society in existence, I'm saying that we're much better off than most, and we're _obviously_ much better off than most historical civilizations. The term "deeply broken" implies that the whole thing needs to be upended and reformed. A more reaso…
I vehemently disagree, we should absolutely revolt.
Show me the non-technological incremental improvements.
The US is not a democracy, legislative power is sold to the highest bidder. Legally.
Couple that with unregulated capitalism and things are looking quite bleak.
Inequality is on the rise and there is no reason to think that trend will reverse.
But at least we have iPhones.
We're very young as a species. Our current structures of power are not intentionally constructed but inherited. There is no reason to think this is the best we can do as a species. Why don't we put the same level of effort into designing our social structures as we do into literally everything else we develop as a society? Where is the rigor?
Now look me in the eyes and tell me everything is fine.
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Man who has never experienced extreme poverty or the absolute depths of American society attempts to provide easy answer to something he's never been through.
I speak from experience
You are being haplessly Bayesian.
Good for you, you made it.
Go ahead and draw your statistically insignificant conclusion if you must, but keep it to yourself.
Do you also tell depressed people to just not be sad?
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I don’t get your logic? I assumed protestant ethic came from all the non-anal families literally dying in an unforgiving and unfamiliar land.
My point was simply that if doing nothing was men’s natural state, we wouldn’t have progressed to the point where Protestantism (or advertising) was even a thing. What’s a non-anal family? Most families are non-anal if you consider how human reproduction works by I’m not sure that’s what you’re talking about :P
I meant anal, short for "anal retentive" i.e. paranoid about doing things "properly".
Your logic makes sense if the Earth were the same everywhere. It breaks down if you understand that New England is fundamentally different from England or Africa.
The fact that puritanism thrived says something about New England's natural state in the 1600s. It says nothing about humankind's natural state.
Really, the fact that it emerged so late in human history, and was dominant so briefly, in such an unusual place suggests it's somewhat unnatural at a species scale.
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#390Earlier quoted context omitted.
So any society below those 22 on the "Satisfaction with life index" is "deeply broken"? I think you're missing the point; I'm not saying that the US is the most super awesome society in existence, I'm saying that we're much better off than most, and we're _obviously_ much better off than most historical civilizations. The term "deeply broken" implies that the whole thing needs to be upended and reformed. A more reaso…
I vehemently disagree, we should absolutely revolt. Show me the non-technological incremental improvements. The US is not a democracy, legislative power is sold to the highest bidder. Legally. Couple that with unregulated capitalism and things are looking quite bleak. Inequality is on the rise and there is no reason to think that trend will reverse. But at least we have iPhones. We're very young as a species. Our cur…
>I vehemently disagree, we should absolutely revolt.
You would make things worse.
>Show me the non-technological incremental improvements
Civil rights, LGBTQ rights, women's suffrage, the rise of the middle class, worker's rights... I could keep going.
>Couple that with unregulated capitalism and things are looking quite bleak
We don't have unregulated capitalism. Not even close.
>Inequality is on the rise and there is no reason to think that trend will reverse.
There is every reason to believe that it will if you even have a basic understanding of history. This stuff is cyclical and, in modern times, shows a constant upwards trend (i.e. trending toward economic equality and equality of opportunity).
>We're very young as a species. Our current structures of power are not intentionally constructed but inherited
Well you had better back that up because a lot of more knowledgeable people would disagree with you there. You are making a broad claim about human behavior without any evidence. I don't think you understand the gravity or far reaching consequences of that argument.
>Now look me in the eyes and tell me everything is fine.
I never said that. I said that most things are fine, in fact better than ever, and we should continually strive to improve those areas which aren't. You seem to think that 'equality' is something that we can impose by fiat, yet we have reams of evidence to the contrary.