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> If yes, it's troubling. All my stoner friends claim no permanent damage from chronic use I mean, your stoner friends have got to be making a strange claim in
by simonsarris 9y ago
> If yes, it's troubling. All my stoner friends claim no permanent damage from chronic use
I mean, your stoner friends have got to be making a strange claim in the first place. There is no magic Twin Earth, where yoga is a contact sport, John McCain is president, and they never smoked, that they can compare themselves to.
We all decline somewhat from other factors, the question is just how much is attributable to what. How would they even be able to parse out their cannabis-decline from their age-decline, or from their haven't-practiced-long-division-recently decline, etc?
If they are only thinking "I felt dumber when smoking but now that I stopped, it seems gone", well, that's something, but it can't be a complete picture vs their never-smoked potential.
- kgwxd 9y ago"There is no magic Twin Earth" That's just, like, your opinion man. If they smoke enough, they've probably been to Twin Earth.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoThey've probably been to many places. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-the-cactus-person/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/21/universal-love-said-the...
- exabrial 9y agoAcroyoga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acroyoga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acroyoga Does that count as full contact?
- babyrainbow 9y agoI have this same thought when people say their didn't have any problems even after they got all the vaccine shots as a child, so it is completely safe... How did you compare you with your version who never had shots? Or how did any vaccination trials do it?
- roywiggins 9y agoYou compare populations. Did a group who got the vaccine have more problems than an otherwise identical group that didn't? This requires careful study design and statistical analysis, of course.
- babyrainbow 9y ago> who got the vaccine have more problems than an otherwise identical group that didn't? But we were not talking about problems. The person I was replying said this > but it can't be a complete picture vs their never-smoked potential. So I am talking about the potential (meaning various capabilities IQ, Social behaviour, Emotional stability (withing the bound of normalcy) etc. I mean, things that are not usually recognized as problems..). How can you compare the potential of a version of you who never had vaccines with a version of you who had a given set of vaccines. This is particularly relevant with vaccines because you don't have a version of you before having vaccines, since these are usually administrated at a very young age..
- Benjamin_Dobell 9y agoVaccines undergo extremely comprehensive studies before being widely approved for use, there's really not a lot to wonder about. For example, I think everyone knows about the 2015-2016 Zika virus out-break and what experts believe to be a link to devastating child birth defects. This has clearly become a high priority vaccine candidate... and, we believe we already have one. It's just that, despite the devastating effects, medical professionals/scientists aren't going to go willy-nilly releasing it to the public without a comprehensive study (ideally multiple of them), for example, the following study which is expected to complete in 2019. https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/phase-2-zika-vaccine-trial-begins-us-central-south-america https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/phase-2-zika-v...
- babyrainbow 9y agoDidn't really answer my specific question...