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Isnt it possible that people smoking weed were treating conditions like anxiety or depression and are more likely to commit suicide in the first place? Weed has
by code_for_monkey 1y ago
Isnt it possible that people smoking weed were treating conditions like anxiety or depression and are more likely to commit suicide in the first place? Weed has had a real deficit of actual study and although some people can get a dependency on it I have a hard time qualifying those people as addicts when stopping weed is so much less dangerous and difficult than other substances. Its a complicated topic that requires quite a lot of care when you talk about it, because labelling someone as an addict is a tall order and also weed has been a moral panic for so long.
- chisleu 1y agoOh that’s absolutely part of it.
- cluckindan 1y agoIs it not a bit disingenuous to imply that cannabis causes the suicidality if it is actually the cessation of (self-)treatment that causes it?
- chisleu 1y agoI don't know brother. I'm not making that claim. I'm repeating it.
- cluckindan 1y agoThat’s generally how misinformation propagates. Hearsay.
- chisleu 1y agoYeah except it's not hearsay so much as repeating a credible source.