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When you hear someone say “I do drugs” do you imagine them sitting at a bar to have a drink? Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to
by hippo22 8mo ago
When you hear someone say “I do drugs” do you imagine them sitting at a bar to have a drink?
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
- superkuh 8mo agoWe know. But it's a problem because alcohol is one of the most dangerous and damaging drugs. It's basically just society grandfathering it in and all of us living in a state of cognitive dissonance. re: the article itself, they concentrate only on brain regions which have high density of CB1 expression and that's reasonable. But CB1 is not the only CNS cannabinoid receptor (CB2 mostly expressed peripherally). There's also GPR55 which is activated by cannabinoids like THC. A little issue which could be addressed in future work.
- kevin_thibedeau 8mo agoAlcohol can be consumed without intoxication. Nobody smokes to not get high.
- master-lincoln 8mo agoTell that to all CBD users and people who use Marijuana to reduce anxieties or spasticity. Also who drinks alcohol without wanting at least some of the intoxication effects?
- hackingonempty 8mo agoI've gone to numerous tasting events where I spit out all of the wine. There may be hundreds of bottles being poured at a trade show and you can't really taste more than a handful if you are swallowing.
- BrandoElFollito 8mo agoTrue, but you end up high anyway. You would not drive in France for instance, because of the residual alcohol
- nutjob2 8mo agoPatently false on both counts. There is always some level of intoxication and many people use pot to manage anxiety, pain, nausea and lack of appetite, while avoiding the high.
- buellerbueller 8mo agoWisdom is knowing when not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. https://cheflindseyfarr.com/marinated-tomato-stone-fruit-salad/ https://cheflindseyfarr.com/marinated-tomato-stone-fruit-sal... (I second the recommendation of adding burrata.)
- ssl-3 8mo agoWhen I hear someone say "I do drugs," first I imagine that they're a fucking narcotics agent, and then I end the conversation.
- kannanvijayan 8mo agoKnowledge is being aware of the analogy of tomatoes not being treated like fruits even though they technically are. Wisdom is understanding that if there was legislation on the matter, and people who ate, produced, or sold non-tomato fruits were hunted and deprived of their freedoms by the state on the basis that fruits are bad for society, then you would likely see similar frustrations expressed about an article title that includes the phrase "tomatoes and fruits" to distinguish them.
- lo_zamoyski 8mo agoThis is such a terrible analogy. Hunted? Alcohol in moderation is relaxing. Most drugs, OTOH, when used at the doses that make them attractive to recreational drug users, impair reason, and impairing reason is not just stupid, but immoral. We can debate the particular methods by which the state regulates or otherwise deals with drug use, but there is nothing intrinsically wrong with the criminalization of such drugs as such. No one has a right to take drugs (there is no right to immorality). This may seem alien to a culture whose emaciated understanding of morality is exhausted by the concept of consent. The law is a teacher, and it is good to teach people that recreational drug use (and drunkenness) is a bad thing. Like all immorality, it is an insult to one's dignity and humanity. We can tolerate the impairment of reason as a proportionate side effect [0] (for instance, high doses of morphine given to terminally ill patients in extreme pain), but this is not recreational use. [0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/double-effect/
- master-lincoln 8mo agoAlcohol impairs cognitive functions more than Marijuana when under high influence.
- PlatoIsADisease 8mo agoWittgenstein has an example, imagine you are on a construction site and someone says 'Slab!' Do they mean 'That is a slab.' or 'Hand me that slab.'? Context matters. There is no correct answer. There are no metaphysical truth particles that shake 'True!'. Expressivism, how you feel about the statement, is going to decide what you think. Anyway, I used to intentionally say things like "I love drugs, although its specifically Caffeine."