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As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by tsol »

blowski wrote: post #218
marginalia_nu wrote: post #200

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I think this is largely the problem with mobile phones as well. Like you probably aren't going to go mad or get rectangular eyes or whatever, but you can just sort of sedate that sensation of boredom with scrolling reddit or facebook or whatever, which does all of bupkis for making us happy in the long term.

This is the same argument with all consuming vs producing. It's why there was a moral panic in the 1800s over Jane Austen style fiction, in the 1930s over radio, and so on. Being addicted to cannabis is not really any different to playing computer games 12 hours a day, doing endless marathons, watching sports, investing, or many similar activities.

Drugs are functionally different, I'd argue. You can quit games any time without pain, given enough mental resolve or motivation. No matter how good a reason it is you still have to deal with physical withdrawal when it comes to drugs

Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by lovemenot »

SoftTalker wrote: post #263
mesofile wrote: post #119

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I thought the way that South Park put it (in the voice of Randy Marsh) many years ago was just about perfect: “Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn't gonna make you kill people, and ...it most likely isn't gonna fund terrorists, but... Well son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored and... It's when you're bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or... being creat…

Can confirm. Two of my kids use THC pretty regularly and they seem content with a life that is paying the bills but not really leading anywhere. The third does not (AFAIK) and is on a much higher trajectory. All had pretty much the same upbringing, rules, experiences, and discipline. I've never used it, so don't have personal experience.

>> The third does not (AFAIK) and is on a much higher trajectory.

Depends on one's definition of higher, I guess.

Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by palmetieri2000 »

blobbers wrote: post #539
palmetieri2000 wrote: post #518

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Yes, It is the workers fault that they do not get enough funds to properly take care of themselves while working full time. Really dumb take.

It is possible that some jobs are meant to be stepping stones, not permanent positions (ie: you outgrow them, and someone lower on the learning totem pole steps into the role for a time).

Absolutely, and you should be paid enough to properly take care of yourself while you have those positions.

Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by gunfighthacksaw »

s5300 wrote: post #348
worker_person wrote: post #336

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Watching your child being content to work at Taco Bell for the next 50 years is not something to be proud of. Regardless of contentment.

Why? Billions across the world would be incredibly happy with their kids getting to do something like this. If you aren’t happy with a content child, sounds like you had children for all of the wrong reasons & would be a horrible, potentially abusive parent.

My friend who is a (really smart) SWE in Canada said that compared to his own country, he could live here on a fast food salary, smoke weed, make music and still have a better life than his home country.

We forget that a job where you get free food and a low wage for simple work is (historically speaking) extremely luxurious.

Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by gunfighthacksaw »

akhmatova wrote: post #516
alexk307 wrote: post #103

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Have you ever used cannabis as a medicine or daily for a long period of time? Do you think we all just watch movies and act like morons all day? Why do you care if other people do or don’t want to deal with your version of life?

Why do you care ...? I don't. It's just an observation. That doesn't mean I care.

Apologies to mods for low effort reply to low effort post but you obviously care enough to have posted and responded.

Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by gunfighthacksaw »

sandworm101 wrote: post #153
Bud wrote: post #114

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There are certainly consequences to cannabis use, but let's not get carried away. At least for the vast majority of casual users, this isn't anything remotely close to a $100/day habit. Common sense should inform us of that, even if we aren't intimately familiar with how much pot actually costs. $5-10 a day is closer to the reality for most users.

Flat-out 24/7 high would be 100/day. Pot is a drug that successful people can sustain without any financial issues. Compare cocaine which can quickly ramp into 1000/day and beyond, quickly devastating the finances of even relatively wealthy people.

Bruh I can cop $99/oz and that lasts me for 2 months. If I wanted to be permafried, maybe 2-3 weeks.

Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by undersuit »

sohdas wrote: post #211
undersuit wrote: post #46

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I track my cannabis consumption. Every time I buy I record the weight, price, date, and strain info. My daily consumption in grams per day averages out to 1.5g. Yet there are days when I'm consuming 3+ grams, and if you look at my spreadsheet you can see that more often then not those heavy days fall in a row. I'm not having days where I intake more THC, I'm having days where I consume more cannabis than normal from…

virtually no teenagers or college students do any of this.

I'm in agreement that marijuana use is self limiting.

I'm not arguing that people need or should monitor their use like mine; my monitoring is for budgeting reasons anyways not managing my use.

Sure an inexperienced user can experience a distressing reaction when consuming something too potent, but the original article is about daily users.

Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by Adraghast »

blazingfrog2 wrote: post #444
lovehashbrowns wrote: post #371

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I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living. Particularly when it just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. The world around you revolves around people that clock in and out day after day. Maybe one day we’ll have 7.5 billion CEOs in the world, huh?

> I don’t understand the thought process of putting someone down based on what they do for a living Discounting the counter productive condescension required to be the one putting the other guy down, we should all be honest with a simple fact: any typical software dev (just talking about what I know) can succeed at a gas station job while the reverse is not true. This obviously does not afford the software dev the ri…

I would pay very good money to watch you spend a Valentine’s Day working at a restaurant.

Re: As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

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Post by dogman144 »

nabogh wrote: post #483
dogman144 wrote: post #459

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agreed. I started bookmarking a specific open source repo and automechanic wiki and I’m slowly conditioning myself to read those if I want to waste time on my phone. I enjoy reading them anyway as much (or a lot more) than Reddit or w/e, just needed to make it habitual bc I didn’t think about going to those as a first stop to get lost in. Def helps and returns the joy of having internet access, lot of cool stuff to l…

Got a link to that wiki? Sounds useful

https://repairpal.com/encyclopedia

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Post by dogman144 »

gen220 wrote: post #528
dogman144 wrote: post #459

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agreed. I started bookmarking a specific open source repo and automechanic wiki and I’m slowly conditioning myself to read those if I want to waste time on my phone. I enjoy reading them anyway as much (or a lot more) than Reddit or w/e, just needed to make it habitual bc I didn’t think about going to those as a first stop to get lost in. Def helps and returns the joy of having internet access, lot of cool stuff to l…

Consider using an RSS reader and bookmarking that! It’s nice to be able to grow your list of things to “default browse” to, over time.

Hot tip! Thx
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