Skip Navigation
59 comments

  • Very true, and weed is much much less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes.

    However, I think it is a coincidence how as everything in the US is reaching peak shittiness, a ton of states are legalizing it.

    Weed, while not harmful, absolutely keeps people entertained, distracted, and lets us use it as an escape from the shitty world. That is not bad, but I have a suspicion that it is actually useful to the people in power to keep people from revolting or disrupting power. Who would rather go protest after a hard day of labor vs chilling and having a gummy?

    Kind of like how there are a ton of efforts to keep people addicted to phone and TV instead of taking action.

    • I can see how you'd reach this conclusion, but I also feel it discounts the decades of lobbying and protesting up to those moments. Plus, if the rationale was truly to make the populace more docile, why would there be such reluctance to legalization at the federal level in the U.S (not saying there isn't a counterpoint to this, re: keeping federal institutions full)?

      • That is true.

        I am also looking at history too. The last time of a similar thing happened in the states was the end of prohibition in 1933, right when open fascist movements started to gain steam (and especially among the ruling class) as opposed to the right wing lead up to fascism during the prohibition era.

        Not saying that there is causation, but it is definitely a pretty weird coincidence that the only two massive recreational drug legalizations in america happened right during the fascist movements early stages.

  • You have to understand. THC is psychoactive. Certain strains that are low in CBD (the antipsychotic) and high in THC can trigger latent conditions, such as paranoia, psychosis, etc.

    But, they can also be triggered by alcohol, having a brisk walk, etc.

  • Funny enough, weed does scare the absolute shit out of me, but I'm in a very small minority here. In fact, a few months back, my wife's friend gave us some cannabis breath strips. Same brand, but different colored packaging. THC for my wife, CBD for me. Well. I was standing in my open refrigerator filling a glass of water when that CBD breath strip I had taken started to get real weird.

    Flash forward an hour or two and I was laying in my dark bedroom in a panic spiral, thinking I was a terrible father and convinced that my house was haunted. I even saw a small white orb of light suspended near the wall above my fan, and I'm still not sure how it was projected there. I've never seen it before or since. Stared at it a good while before it just faded away.

    Anyway. That wasn't CBD.

  • I've been around cannabis products a lot. It's never been legal in my country. I've seen people using it recreationally, I've seen people using it therapeutic. I've seen people who have used cannabis products their entire lives without issues, and people who have been unable to keep a job and earned a living doing crime.

    The worst thing I've seen are the kids who came in to the psych ward I temped at. IDK how/what happened exactly, but it could be 20 yos with delusions and hallucinations, supposedly brought on by a misuse of cannabis. As in they probably already had some issues that they were dealing with, and found that cannabis made it easier to exist.

    The what-aboutism of asking about alcohol is really not a good argument, because had alcohol been introduced today, and had we not had millenia long relationship with alcohol, then it would definitely have been banned as well.

    With that being said, for profit prisons will never be a good idea, and letting prison corporations lobby politicians? If we just let them print their own money, then we wouldn't have to lock up so many people.

    • Good points, but a question because I see that comment a lot: When you say 'we' had a millenia long relationship with alcohol, who's included in that 'we'? If we're talking humanity writ large, we've had a millenia long relationship with weed as well - just limited to people in areas of the world where it grows under natural conditions. Think the Indian subcontinent, China, etc.

      This wiki article (by no means an authoritative source itself) is an interesting read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis

      Will admit I'm being a bit pedantic, but at many points through my life I've heard people talking about cannabis as if it's some completely net new thing, which simply isn't true unless you're talking about very specific societies.

  • You only get paranoid if you don't smoke every often. It's not an issue for daily users.

59 comments