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Tangential addendum: I used to smoke pot all the time. From my mid-teens to mid-twenties. At least once a day, increasing over time to 3-5-∞ times a day. In the
by cmckn 5y ago
Tangential addendum: I used to smoke pot all the time. From my mid-teens to mid-twenties. At least once a day, increasing over time to 3-5-∞ times a day. In the last year, I have significantly reduced my marijuana usage to less than once a week. My mental health has benefitted tremendously (also thanks to a great therapist!). I sleep better, I eat less shitty food, I enjoy sex more, I feel overall more equipped to handle my daily life and be an adult. I only date people of the same sex, so standard reproduction isn't a big concern for me; but if you're a pothead like I was (am?)--there's a lot more to reflect on than your sperm count. :)
- gremIin 5y ago> I only date people of the same sex I initially read that as a side effect of not smoking weed anymore.
- cmckn 5y agohahahaha! In which case, can't recommend it enough!
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- dumbfoundded 5y agoI think a lot of pro cannabis people are out of balance with viewing the negative side effects. It's a drug and has side-effects. It's much safer than tobacco and alcohol but it certainly has side effects including a strong psychological addiction potential.
- medo-bear 5y agoi don't understand this cannabis-is-safer-than-alcohol myth. for example, i know people that have an extremely low mental tolerance for cannabis while functioning completely normal on a bottle of beer a day. also, i think that it is fairly well known that cannabis has a worrying correlation with schizophrenia [0] [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442038/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442038/
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- netizen-936824 5y agoEating cannabis won't give you cancer, drinking alcohol likely will. One of these things has metabolites that actively damages DNA and one does not
- medo-bear 5y agoa glass of red a night is most likely not going to give you cancer or damage your DNA. a joint a night on the other have just might (depending on your predisposition) have an extremely negative effect besides given how long we have been consuming alcohol throughout our history, i think its effects are largely understood. we do not know this about cannabis
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- netizen-936824 5y agoHow long do you think humans have been consuming cannabis? Arguably longer than alcohol, not that it matters anyhow. The restrictions are arbitrary, not to mention being habituated to a nightly GABA agonist (alcohol) has just as many negative implications as nightly cannabinoids. The cannabinoids just won't five you cancer on top of it
- dumbfoundded 5y agoIt's like you don't even know google exists. You just spout one false fact after another. Cannabis is one of the oldest cultivated plants in human history (1). It was smoked for pleasure and religiously long before Christianity became a religion. I wonder, do you dilute your glass of red wine before drinking it? The ancient Greeks diluted their wine with 25% wine and 75% water. They also viewed anyone who didn't as a barbarian and drunkard (2). 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis#:~:text=Cannabis%20has%20an%20ancient%20history,previous%20historical%20reports%20by%20Herodotus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cannabis#:~:text=Ca.... 2) https://www.worldhistory.org/article/944/wine-in-the-ancient-mediterranean/ https://www.worldhistory.org/article/944/wine-in-the-ancient...
- agumonkey 5y agoMaybe a blend of low psychoactive cannabinoids + some THC could become a better norm.
- dumbfoundded 5y agoI agree. It's going to get complicated though. There are hundreds of cannabinoids we're aware of with barely any scientific understanding of the effects. CBD, CBN, and CBG all started popping up in dispensaries in different combinations with THC. We still don't really fully understand what they do. There are also more potent versions of THC like THC-O (1) (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THC-O-acetate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THC-O-acetate
- agumonkey 5y agoCannabinoids have been studied a bit already, not claiming we know everything about them but we're not in the blur either. And I was not thinking about THC derivatives, mostly non psychoactive (cbn/d/g).
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- rpmisms 5y agoWe don't have a mature culture around cannabis usage. Alcohol has this benefit, and we have some social norms on how to enjoy it. A big one is the "don't drink before 5" adage. Norms like this for weed will develop in time, I'm sure.
- mettamage 5y agoWe live in different bubbles. I certainly live in a social circle that has a mature view on cannabis. Perhaps it's Amsterdam. I smoke about 6 to 12 times per year, mostly THC/CBD (Dutch weed), sometimes CBD only (specifically, weed from Switzerland). Dutch weed: 3 to 5 puffs and I'm fine. Smoking half a joint or more is definitely overdosing it, feeling cold and uncontrollable tremors can occur. Swiss weed: I smoke half a joint.
- ModernMech 5y agoYeah, wake and bake is a bad cultural norm for weed. Then again, smoking at 4:20 would mirror the "no day drinking" norm.
- galcerte 5y agoI'm seeing the opposite quite often where I live, people who are quite a bit into weed usually end up needing to bake in order to sleep more comfortably.
- eurasiantiger 5y agoMaybe they are having problems sleeping to begin with.
- netizen-936824 5y agoLikely, but also cannabinoids can interfere with sleep. A regular user can experience night sweats when they do not have cannabinoids, depending on frequency of use
- cyberpsybin 5y agoSmoking cannabis 8 times a day in not being "pro" cannabis. Not wanting to get incarcerated for life for possession of few grams of a plant is "pro" cannabis.
- agumonkey 5y agoAll things have negatives when overdone. When my cousin stopped cold turkey, his speech/thoughts pace was a solid 50% up. It was surreal.