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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by Darmody on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:59PM (#26279160)
I am afraid in 20-30 years we will see the real consequences of smoking cannabis non-stop. I've never seen so many people smoking it as if it was part of their diet. And it's not even legal here.
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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by eschaton on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:30PM (#26282577)
Oh no, people smoking cannabis. The horror.
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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by Hallucinaut on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:09PM (#26279878)
Why wait 20 years? Look at Portugal or the Netherlands today.
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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by Darmody on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:59PM (#26281286)
The culture surrounding weed was no the same back then. Now they almost want to sell it as a healthy snack.
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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by Apocryphon on Friday February 26, 2021 @08:04PM (#26281706)
What about the hippies from the 60s? Surely there are more sample populations.
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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by Darmody on Saturday February 27, 2021 @04:48AM (#26283764)
Maybe I have a wrong perception but I think weed is more widespread today and more acceptable than it was back then.
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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by Tagbert on Saturday February 27, 2021 @12:37PM (#26286466)
More widespread and acceptable but that doesn’t mean that individuals are smoking more, just that more people are indulging. Even that may not be a large, overall increase from the studies I’ve seen. The main effect of legalization in our area was that it was no longer hidden.
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Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed by Darmody on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:32AM (#26293291)
More widespread means more people are smoking. And culturally now it's seen as normal as alcohol.

Kids here smoke as soon as they start high school, that's around 12-13 years. After a couple years they gather before school starts to smoke, then go to class, then smoke again.

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