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>Anecdote, data, yadda yadda. Sorry, are you waving away the comparative value of hard data and personal experience? > when I was smoking weed frequently, I h
by mistercow 11y ago
>Anecdote, data, yadda yadda.
Sorry, are you waving away the comparative value of hard data and personal experience?
> when I was smoking weed frequently, I had no problem just doing nothing with my life
Sounds like pot isn't for really you then. I'd even be OK with a statement like "A danger of pot is that some people find it makes them OK with being bored".
But making sweeping generalizations that don't apply to everybody (and haven't even been shown to apply to most or many people) is exactly what is wrong with anti-drug propaganda. First off it's bad because, you know, lying is wrong. Secondly, it destroys your credibility with anyone who decides to see for themselves, and doesn't have anything close to the experience you described.
And with drugs like cocaine, meth and heroin out there, it's probably a good idea for kids to have someone with a little credibility to turn to when they want to know what's up.
- tonyarkles 11y ago>> Anecdote, data, yadda yadda. > Sorry, are you waving away the comparative value of hard data and personal experience? Absolutely! Not because I don't see value in data, but because my personal experience is all I have to go from. A cursory lit review didn't come up with any hard data for or against that specific proposition (that marijuana makes you ok with being bored). The closest I found was: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723942/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723942/ Which suggests that among their N=634 marijuana users, ~25% reported boredom as a motivation for smoking. I absolutely agree that we should have credible data to use both for education and policy making! The unfortunate part of our current legal situation is that it's incredibly difficult to study those things directly.