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One response I received was: “weed is natural and comes from the Earth”. It’s absolutely mind boggling how stupid people can be.
by 404mm 4y ago
One response I received was: “weed is natural and comes from the Earth”.
It’s absolutely mind boggling how stupid people can be.
- withinboredom 4y agoAnd water comes from burning fossil fuels too, but I doubt that water would be good for you. Ibuprofen comes from the bark of tree IIRC, but that pill is a lot better than the soup you’d have to eat to get not nearly the same effect. Everything is natural. I really hate that argument.
- 404mm 4y agoIn moments when I’m not speechless, I usually just say “and so does Mercury and Uranium“.
- Apocryphon 4y agoThose are minerals, not plants. A better counterpart would be nightshade and castor plant oil seeds.
- nkozyra 4y ago> Ibuprofen comes from the bark of tree IIRC This is salicylic acid, in a number of tree barks but most abundantly in white willow. The medication form is aspirin or acetylsalicylic acid.
- vorpalhex 4y ago"So are sharks and volcanoes..."
- dekhn 4y agoTo steelman this argument (to the extent that I can): we can in fact attribute a great deal of harm to highly processed ingredients, while there are a number of plants and animals humans have lived with and eaten for millenia, and we've identified the natural products that are poisonous. Weed is one of the plants that humans have coexisted with and consumed for millenia, and societies with high weed consumption don't appear to be significantly sicker than ones that don't. (I can't think of a way to steelman around the fact that there are many toxic plant and animal substances, and some highly processed ingredients are completely harmless)