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Only a person who doesn’t drink caffeine, alcohol, or any other drug (including aspirin and other non psychoactives) can approach making this claim. Hell, you

Only a person who doesn’t drink caffeine, alcohol, or any other drug (including aspirin and other non psychoactives) can approach making this claim. Hell, you could say the same thing to someone who enjoys a small dessert every night. Or a bath. So long as they’d feel sad to not have it, they are then avoiding a problem, right? Or… humans just really enjoy having diverse things to do, and all find different balances of what those things are. And THC suits very well to certain brain physiologies much like a bubble bath does for others.

halfmatthalfcat 5y ago
I'm not going to go into the nuances of prolonged THC exposure and how it affects brain chemistry, especially under the guise of self-medication but you're not acting in good faith of our discussion by comparing THC to taking a bath.
- nwienert 5y ago
  I could link to a handful of very positive studies for THC, and a handful of negative. Here's a fun recent one showing that THC has potential mTOR1 activation and CNS myelination effects. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32956517/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32956517/ I could similarly link to about 10 pretty scary studies for caffeine, especially effect on brain structure and sleep quality. Or should we do sugar? The dose makes the poison for anything, it's not clear THC isn't beneficial at a lower dose. It's medically prescribed for cancer pain relief, and for a segment of people its anxiolytic effects are incredible.
- hirvi74 5y ago
  > I'm not going to go into the nuances of prolonged THC exposure and how it affects brain chemistry I'm not even apart of this debate, and now I am curious. Do you mind sharing what you have found?
galaxyLogic 5y ago
And there's really nothing wrong with crutches. If your leg hurts they help you get around. I don't get all this anti-crutches rhetoric

halfmatthalfcat 5y ago

I'm not going to go into the nuances of prolonged THC exposure and how it affects brain chemistry, especially under the guise of self-medication but you're not acting in good faith of our discussion by comparing THC to taking a bath.

nwienert 5y ago
I could link to a handful of very positive studies for THC, and a handful of negative. Here's a fun recent one showing that THC has potential mTOR1 activation and CNS myelination effects. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32956517/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32956517/ I could similarly link to about 10 pretty scary studies for caffeine, especially effect on brain structure and sleep quality. Or should we do sugar? The dose makes the poison for anything, it's not clear THC isn't beneficial at a lower dose. It's medically prescribed for cancer pain relief, and for a segment of people its anxiolytic effects are incredible.
hirvi74 5y ago
> I'm not going to go into the nuances of prolonged THC exposure and how it affects brain chemistry I'm not even apart of this debate, and now I am curious. Do you mind sharing what you have found?

galaxyLogic 5y ago

And there's really nothing wrong with crutches. If your leg hurts they help you get around. I don't get all this anti-crutches rhetoric