I don't think there is any controversy there is at least a weak link between intelligence and access to luxury goods.
In other news, occasional cigar smokers have slightly lower cancer rates. It aint the cigars...
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Edit: those talking about price being cheap in US: the data is from UK biobank. Unclear to me if that's actually UK citizens, but prices in UK are significantly higher than those quoting legal weed state prices. It appears those downvoting / rebutting are attempting to strong-arm a US centric view into foreign sourced data.
Using data from the UK Biobank, which includes health information from over 500,000 adults, associations between cannabis use, regional brain volume, and cognition in participants aged 40–70 years (mean age = 54.5) were evaluated.Weed was never a luxury substance. Cocaine and others are.
Because the hemp laws were poorly written, this product was legal in all 50 states
The 10mg THC drinks give a whiff of cannabis when you open one and produce an intoxication similar to smoking with an experience similar to drinking an alcoholic drink. It's more expensive than the cheapest beer, but similar to a reasonably priced wine or drink in a bar. Unfortunately these will be gone in most places by the end of 2026.
This can be said about any drug, but even then, heavy use of weed vs other drugs is absolutely cheaper, especially these days if you live in an area where it's legal and/or are willing to grow it.
(in other words)
I see people smoke all day all the time now and while driving and it clearly affects their judgement. I don’t know why legalization lead to “no moderation at all” and “I smoke at work”
Edit: down-voters do not allow me to dislike marijuana smell. Hilarious!
100% of my doctors say (incl. Director level at Mt Sinai and orthopedic surgeons for the Washington commnders) are more than delighted with my prescription
so like that’s just your opinion man
But maybe its a pop-science kind of fact that I've been carring along all this time without factuality?
It definitely has negative effects long term. Concentration is impacted. In my case, it can cause anxiety. The impacts are subtle, but they’re there.
The negative side effects are definitely being underrepresented at the “non-scaremongering” parts of civilization.
I agree with your other points though.
this feels like reading tea leaves
It has no cred to me unless I can read it. Appeal to authority is the opposite of science.
Anyway, sounds like induction, it might be probabilistically true, but they don't have the theory to prove it. (Popper ruined me)
Hey buddy
Read what any of your favorite musicians have to say about it. Check the science and testimony on it enhancing creativity and sensory experience, helping people see see themselves and the world from a new perspective - introspective development.
You know, the same sort of introspection that might make one wonder if your statement above says a lot more about you, and your values, than it does about cannabis enjoyers.
https://thereitis.org/mr-x-by-carl-sagan/
He originally wrote about it under a pseudonym for fear of professional consequences. Many such cases.
I quit last year, but before that I was a weekend user, and an $8 gram, (which is less than I paid when I was a high school kid in the 1980s) would last me a month or more. I haven't looked at the paper the article is based on, but as an older adult I felt like I was on the losing side of the risk/reward proposition. If however, I was looking to replace a more expensive and destructive habit like alcohol, switching to cannabis would be an easy decision.
On the margin, this should reduce the risk of some brain diseases as you get older.
However as much as I love loud there are obvious downsides to daily use
pixelpoet•1h ago
> The work is published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
"Alcohol and drugs" is like saying "beef and meat".
hippo22•1h ago
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
superkuh•1h ago
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•33m ago
buellerbueller•1h ago
https://cheflindseyfarr.com/marinated-tomato-stone-fruit-sal...
(I second the recommendation of adding burrata.)
ssl-3•1h ago
kannanvijayan•47m ago
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•18m ago
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/
PlatoIsADisease•41m ago
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."
micromacrofoot•1h ago
we have to operate in people space
swed420•37m ago
But that's presumably why the parent commenter spoke up in the first place.
Industry-fueled self-delusion can be intercepted if we make the effort to do so.
dana321•1h ago
sejje•39m ago
We see a distinction for that one, just like we do for alcohol.
lo_zamoyski•13m ago