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Does it really surprises anyone that a psychoactive drug have psychoactive effects on it's users? This whole "cannabis is an inofensive natural plant" is so dum

Does it really surprises anyone that a psychoactive drug have psychoactive effects on it's users? This whole "cannabis is an inofensive natural plant" is so dumb, of course a drug that alters your mind and is used regularly will produce side effects on it's users. The other thing that I always try to warn my pot head friends is about the pulmonary risks involved in cannabis use. I know guys that smoke all day pretty much non stop. Imagine if instead of weed, it was tobacco cigarretes, UNFILTERED, being burned up and breathed in. Smoke is smoke, and your lungs will get covered in ashes and debris over time. Pot heads are just alcoholics who destroy their lungs instead of their livers, the mental impairment part is the same. I'm not talking about drinking a beer or two on the weekend, or smoking a joint once a week. I'm talking about the wake and bake type of guys.

kromem 3y ago
As it naturally occurs it probably was fairly innocuous in longer term psychoactive effects. Heirloom strains had CBD alongside THC. CBD on its own has been as effective in research as antipsychotics in treating schizophrenia, and very much mitigates the OP effects in research. But the vast majority of product today has selectively bred out the CBD. It's time we stop talking about cannabis use and start regarding it as THC use, as the full spectrum of the original plant is no longer what people are really using. It'd be like selectively breeding high arsenic almonds and then people getting sick eating them and declaring the problem as one impacting almond consumption instead of more specifically arsenic consumption. THC unmitigated by CBD is a psychiatric sleeping giant that's currently not being addressed because the pendulum swing is still glowing strong with legalization momentum and any criticism is generally dismissed as simply being anti-cannabis use generally.
- fallat 3y ago
  The THC levels in Canadian cannabis is f'd. Of all the things, I wish the gov. had put mandates that there must be a minimum level of CBD and maximum level of THC. It's bonkers.
  - MaxikCZ 3y ago
    Its like going to a pub and the only beverage is 95% ethanol. I just hope in few years/decades we will have our well-bred 3% THC joints sold as equal.

kromem 3y ago

As it naturally occurs it probably was fairly innocuous in longer term psychoactive effects. Heirloom strains had CBD alongside THC. CBD on its own has been as effective in research as antipsychotics in treating schizophrenia, and very much mitigates the OP effects in research. But the vast majority of product today has selectively bred out the CBD. It's time we stop talking about cannabis use and start regarding it as THC use, as the full spectrum of the original plant is no longer what people are really using. It'd be like selectively breeding high arsenic almonds and then people getting sick eating them and declaring the problem as one impacting almond consumption instead of more specifically arsenic consumption. THC unmitigated by CBD is a psychiatric sleeping giant that's currently not being addressed because the pendulum swing is still glowing strong with legalization momentum and any criticism is generally dismissed as simply being anti-cannabis use generally.

fallat 3y ago
The THC levels in Canadian cannabis is f'd. Of all the things, I wish the gov. had put mandates that there must be a minimum level of CBD and maximum level of THC. It's bonkers.
- MaxikCZ 3y ago
  Its like going to a pub and the only beverage is 95% ethanol. I just hope in few years/decades we will have our well-bred 3% THC joints sold as equal.