When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves

Post by darawk » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 3:53 PM UTC

rorykoehler wrote: post #516

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I am a very very fat guy trying to eat properly and it’s excruciating, even after 5 weeks away from most of my daily life. Damned if I haven’t toyed briefly and desperately with the idea of some kind of pharmaceutical intervention. But my lifelong policy with drugs has always been if I can’t even handle Mountain Dew Throwback, I won’t have a chance with speed or coke or pot

Unsolicited tip. Something I find has helped me a lot with challenges like you are facing is to stop looking at them as difficult or choices and simply understanding it what you have to and are going to do. Remove the choice from the equation. I had some pretty destructive habits when I was younger and now people comment on my strong mental discipline. This approach has really helped. I recently had to cut all starch…

Post by magicnubs » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 4:10 PM UTC

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Sadly there's still some prohibition on giving the patient enough to comfortably OD and voluntarily end their suffering in a lot of places. I've heard nurses say that they're instructed to try and keep the patient optimistic, even when all that life means to them anymore is continued suffering. Gotta squeeze every last dollar out of them or something I suppose.

There is a less cynical explanation: if you make it too easy for people to kill themselves then you run the risk of old people being coerced into taking that option by, for example, greedy relatives eyeing their inheritance.

Post by TheSpiceIsLife » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 5:06 PM UTC

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> society ends up bearing the burden of helping people who aren't able to help themselves, be it on an individual level or a governmental level. it doesn't have to do this. if people want to kill themselves slowly, they should be allowed to.

The problem is the same people who want to kill themselves slowly want our tax dollars to provide them free medical care whilst they do so. Your comment ignores the real burden that self-harming people create upon those around them, and why we need to get them out of self-harm rather than bearing the burden of it.

Post by tomcam » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 5:41 PM UTC

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Unsolicited tip. Something I find has helped me a lot with challenges like you are facing is to stop looking at them as difficult or choices and simply understanding it what you have to and are going to do. Remove the choice from the equation. I had some pretty destructive habits when I was younger and now people comment on my strong mental discipline. This approach has really helped. I recently had to cut all starch…

Definitely second this. Choices are hard, but decisions are easy. If you make hard rules for yourself and decide to follow them without exception, it is much easier to stick to, at least, that's what i've found for myself as well.

Post by moate » Thu, Nov 01, 2018, 9:20 PM UTC

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I mean, that seems like a stretch. I agree that most drug advertising (including alcohol) should be limited and never targeted towards children, but IDK how you can limit a financial interest to not increase consumption. Even if you allow home production, there's going to be bong companies and vaporizer manufacturers that want more people buying their products. Legalize weed, don't market it towards children, let adu…

It is also a social thing, young people smoke not because it is a mental issue but because it is cool, their freiends smoke so they try it. If the movies,music will show that is cool and the risk of smoking pot is small then getting the truth out-there will be expensive. Some rich business makes tons of money and the society needs to pay for studies, education, health treatments.