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Couple things to consider: The "not your Daddy's ditch weed" line is basically fake. Cannabis users take enough to get where they want to be and stop, more pot
by samatman 5y ago
Couple things to consider:
The "not your Daddy's ditch weed" line is basically fake. Cannabis users take enough to get where they want to be and stop, more potent weed just means they smoke less. It's also a partial agonist, so past a point smoking extra is just wasting drugs.
Second point is that cannabis use isn't increasing, if anything it's decreasing: 20-somethings reported higher rates of use in the 90s than they do now.
So really the impact is less people getting entwined with the legal system.
I won't bother engaging with the rest of your ramble, just the egregiously wrong part.
- seattle_spring 5y ago> Cannabis users take enough to get where they want to be and stop, more potent weed just means they smoke less This is just wildly incorrect, and anyone who has smoked weed more than a few times would know that. No amount of crap weed will ever rival the high of higher quality "chronic."
- motohagiography 5y agoPlease. If you have had a 1g pre roll of anything from the shops, you'd know the difference from the backyard stuff, and THC tolerance is very much a thing, which means the psychological effects that aren't directly euphoric remain while you use more to maintain the euphoric effect. Decriminalization is fine, but pretending the obvious social effects of an exploding market for higher potency products aren't manifesting is just delusional. There is nothing to indicate cannabis use is decreasing at all, especially given there are two shops per block, and any survey of that demographic is going to be useless because most of them are already unreachable because they have disengaged. A ramble indeed, perhaps you could make an HN feature request for emoji support?