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It is all fun and games "defending" legalization of weed online until you get a substance abuser in your family.
by nurettin 11mo ago
It is all fun and games "defending" legalization of weed online until you get a substance abuser in your family.
- loeg 11mo agoAlcoholics have family members, too, but we aren't going to criminalize alcohol.
- spoiler 11mo agoAs someone who was raised by aggressive alcoholics, and I have myself struggled with weed addiction in the past (and seen weed addiction in others), it's really difficult to compare the substances. Yes, weed dependence is bad and people need to be aware of it, but alcohol (and I'd even say nicotine, but that's a different subject) are far more insidious than weed
- squigz 11mo agoCould you elaborate on the nicotine thing? I would say alcohol is far, far, far more insidious than both nicotine and cannabis; I would also say nicotine is less insidious than cannabis.
- IAmBroom 11mo agoWhat do you mean by "insidious"? To me the addictiveness plays a role, and nicotine outshines alcohol & THC completely in that dimension.
- squigz 11mo agoI guess I was considering the effects it has on other people. Sure, nicotine is far more addictive, but I've never heard of a parent being abusive because they had 1 too many cigarettes. I guess what I mean is, nicotine is more self-contained than the others.
- seec 11mo agoYeah, nicotine is a mild stimulant; it's really not a big deal, which is why it is mostly tolerated. The bad interpersonal effects actually come from stopping nicotine, which makes people grumpy, but it doesn't last very long. The problem is that it's a slow burn because it's consumed by smoking, and this is really the most pleasant way to consume it. People don't like the externalities associated with it, and that's pretty much it.
- nurettin 11mo agoWhat's the difference? It takes years of ramping up to become an alcoholic. That's why you don't have many teenagers who are alcoholics. Weed? All it takes is one puff and you are hooked for life.
- IAmBroom 11mo agoHa ha ha ha ha! That's a good one. Now do "race music"!
- readthenotes1 10mo agoThe alcoholics I have known were so from the first time they got drunk. Perhaps the reason you don't see that is it is more difficult for teenagers to get alcohol. At one point in my life it was actually more difficult for teenagers to get alcohol than it was for them to get marijuana
- rusk 11mo agoWait til their substance abuser gets locked up that’s where the fun really begins