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fine in moderation but it can ruin your life. wake and bake stoner lifestyle is bad and 99% of people who say they can handle it can’t. still vast harm reduction compared to alcohol
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Different tokes for different folks
Completley subjective. imo the younger generation smoking more than their drinking is a positive development as whatever problems cannabis has(and there are some) the personal and societal damage of alcohol is far worse
I started way too young but its great for me a keeps me off harder stuff(which I was on for several years)
I kinda think the commercialization of it isn’t great but it has gotten us a lot closer to decriminalization so that’s good. I think if the legal regime was more like how states handle liquor it’d be better.
Idk but the packaging required is incredibly wasteful. Like worse than any other packaging for any other commodity imo. Black market dealers giving you weed in the corner of a plastic bag from the grocery store was infinitely less ecologically damaging lol
Only because there’s a financial incentive for selling shit in individual servings or whatever. Lots of other commodities have the same problem, but like those, if people bought in bulk rather than buying a single prewrapped joint in a stupid plastic tube it wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
Like with pretty much everything in this world, it’s good in moderation.
Anecdotally, i’m a light daily user (go through an eighth of flower every 2 weeks. Smoke one small bowl a day, about 3 bong rips). I didn’t start getting high until reaching my 30s, so my brain was developed. I was a daily alcohol drinker; I used to have about 3 drinks every day, and now I might have 3 a week, if that.
The good: It makes mundane things more fun. Gardening/yardwork, walking the dog, exercise, watching movies and shows. I like how it can let my mind wander or approach thoughts with a different perspective. It’s cheap ($25 to get high 10+ times), it can be consumed in ways that don’t physically harm the body, no hangovers. No calories.
The bad: Can’t always anticipate what kind of high I’ll get. Since it amplifies what I’m already feeling, if I’m stressed or anxious, it can give physical sensations (pressure on chest) and mental feelings of dread. I can cognitively remind myself that the weed is just drawing my attention to the preexisting stress, but I can’t shake the “you don’t know what, but you did something bad, and someone’s gonna yell at you for it any second now” feeling. I like to think of it as a challenge to get cognitively reason my way out of the dread. it mostly works. Just my opinion, but burnt flower reaks and I don’t like smelling bad or stinking up my family-friendly neighborhood. Cleaning a bong is annoying. Smoke is bad for lungs. I burned off all my airway cilia so I don’t cough much anymore. It makes me forget my dreams (literally and metaphorically). Can be hard to follow train-of-thought or complete tasks when stoned (but it’s also kinda fun, like trying to play life with the controls switched up)
Not necessarily good or bad: I think I can tell a difference in my behavior when regularly using or not. When getting high daily, I’m generally calmer or more go-with-the-flow. But also I’ll act more impulsively instead of thinking before speaking. I’m already kind of paranoid and conspiracy minded (in a not-very-serious-way) and weed does kindle that fire, but it makes me conspiracies more creative.
I’m currently on a break (5 days in), and my mind feels sharper, I can think more clearly and faster, I can organize thoughts to explain things verbally better. HOWEVER, I like feeling slower and calmer. I have an intrinsic restlessness (some call it motivation) that weed can tell to relax. I’ve reached a point in my life that I don’t need to feel like I need to keep striving; weed is my reward for getting here.
That’s all I have to say about that
Edit: https://youtu.be/1Zcrb1ff1xs “get out of here, Dewey, you don’t want none of this shit” funny clip
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If you’re growing it yourself and using in moderation, sure. But commercial stuff has a fuck ton of pesticides and fertilisers in it that are not at all regulated.
Wished I would’ve waited till my brain was fully developed before I ever tried it but I’m kinda neutral on it.
Same, I was a daily smoker from like 18-22 and it fucked my memory up pretty badly. Lots of blurriness in my recall now up until the point where i quit
I was straight edge at that age range and my memory got fucked up by depression anyway. I think alienation, watching your childhood friends scatter to chase jobs, the economic inability to establish an adult life despite being physically mature, it all strays too far from evolved needs for the brain to handle. I honestly kind of regret not medicating at that age (though I was too broke anyway, and also not cool enough to know a plug)
Of recreational drugs it seems maybe the least harmful. It rarely results in serious harms and effects seem impermanent except maybe heavy use while young.
Hyperemisis syndrome seems unpleasant, but seems related to high potency extracts.
Smoking anything is bad for you.
Humans like drugs so having safer ones is good.
Humans will use drugs so these questions are kinda pointless. Whether it is good or bad it’s been around for thousands of years
good but still a racket
as a heavy smoker, it’s both. good in that it’s pretty low on the drugs scale, much better for me than when i was drinking, and bad in that i’m still dependent on a substance which is Not Good in general
much better is an understatement, drinking was going to get me killed/seriously injured or have me do it to someone else. weed just turns the volume down a bit
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