Agreed, partially. I wish the focus was more on getting more comfortable about the presence or lack of specific negative effects instead of trying to figure out

Agreed, partially. I wish the focus was more on getting more comfortable about the presence or lack of specific negative effects instead of trying to figure out how to market + advertise it as a cure-all. For a huge amount of people its used exactly like alcohol, so I really want to know the most I can about its effects in that scenario (edibles VS dabs of pure distillate VS smoking flower, etc...). We have reasonable generic answers to some of that like "smoking literally anything is bad for you", but not enough data on consumption methods that don't involve heat/smoke. On the other hand, we've got a pretty solid understanding about this for alcohol. > highly addictive mind altering substance mind altering for sure, but you should clarify that it isn't highly addictive in the way most people think about that statement. Its not a heroin or opioid situation where there is a high propensity to physical dependence even after limited used. THC use is more like alcohol in that around ~9% of users will develop some sort of physical dependence after frequent heavy use, granted there is a noticeable lack of known immediately damaging physical symptoms (like liver damage with alcohol). THC withdrawl symptoms, when they exist, are generally irritability, insomnia, and decreased appetite.