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Nice. Empirically it seems clear stoned people are way less prone to aggressive behaviour, anger and don't get nearly as much health damage as habitual drunkar
by qwerty456127 2y ago
Nice. Empirically it seems clear stoned people are way less prone to aggressive behaviour, anger and don't get nearly as much health damage as habitual drunkards do. I feel excited waiting for this to visibly change states statistics in violent crime and liver health, perhaps even dampen the growth of hard drugs consumption. Nevertheless I am worried people will eat more sweets this way contributing to obesity prevalence.
- datadeft 2y agoThere are many angles of this. Different eating habits is one of those. Driving is another. I am not sure what is the long term impact but I guess we are going to find out.
- hackernewds 2y agoThat argument holds water in a false dichotomy. There are other options such as non addiction
- akamaka 2y agoDidn’t read the first line of the article: > frequent alcohol consumption has remained stable
- qwerty456127 2y agoA bad thing remaining stable is kinda Ok. Slower growth is great and we are yet to observe it.
- robocat 2y ago> Empirically it seems clear stoned people are way less prone to aggressive behaviour Or is that just the stoner stereotype? Anecdotally I have seen plenty of angry stoners (some verging on schizoid) although I'm unsure of correlation versus causation. If there is a certain percentage of agressive angry guys and gals then perhaps weed versus alcohol doesn't move the needle. And most people I know do (a) both to excess or (b) don't excessively abuse either weed nor alcohol.
- addicted 2y agoThe problem with this belief is that as the linked article shows, the increase in marijuana consumption has not been accompanied by a decrease in alcohol consumption, which has remained stable. So we’re still stuck with all the risks of the habitual drunkards, but now also have all the risks of the habitual stoners.
- qwerty456127 2y agoI speculate the following with confidence: At least some people who used to drink will move to smoking marijuana and give up drinking (I hope this is clear, the only questionable part is how many, it indeed is likely this number is going to be negligibly small). A bigger proportion of adolescents who would be going to start drinking habitually will instead start smoking marijuana and won't acquire a habit of consuming alcohol.
- addicted 2y agoYou may be right about future generations. But the data referred to in this article itself, shows that alcohol consumption hasn’t gone down. So your speculation is not true today at least.