Heavy social media use associated with lower mental health in adolescents

Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by antihero on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:48AM (#25930429)

I mean if you want to factor in the benefits of drugs, be my guest, because spoiler alert: They are fucking awesome.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by mhh__ on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:10PM (#25930719)

Or at least they should be if we both detach the stigma and stop lumping in things like Cannabis in with Crack

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by hhh on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:16PM (#25930810)

Absolutely, cannabis is leaps and bounds worse than crack.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by LocalH on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:38PM (#25931176)

Nice troll

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by dav43 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:51AM (#25930454)

I must concur. There is a reason taking drugs has been around for 1000's of years - within reason.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by enkid on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:20PM (#25930881)

Lots of things have been around for 1000's of years. Rape, murder, clothes, but that doesn't mean they are a good thing.

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by LocalH on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:41PM (#25931204)

Being around for thousands of years has zero bearing on whether something is good or bad. It can speak to relative safety. In all the thousands of years, there has yet to be a single death that can be attributed directly to cannabis (and I don't count "marijuana-related visits" to hospitals where regardless of which ailment a person has, if they test positive for cannabis it becomes a "marijuana-related visit", nor do I count deaths where a person just happened to have smoked beforehand).

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Re:Heavy social media use associated with lower mental healt... by enkid on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @05:21PM (#25934910)

Good point!

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