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Re:Marijuana Addiction Is Real. Those Struggling Often Face ... by gnulinux on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:41PM (#36948487)
Reading just this comment, I'm inclined to think your friend is likely correct. You very clearly have a dangerous bias against THC and it's clear in your rhetoric, for example:

> while biologically correct gave these type of people a get out of jail free card.

Yikes.

I think part of the problem is ever since legalization weed became more mainstream (potentially dangerous) but weed-conservatism (i.e. exaggerating real risks of THC) also became much more common to encounter (also potentially dangerous). The reality is somewhere in between. I do not use THC, but as someone who used it previously and it tremendously helped me, my current mental model and set of anecdotes say you're likely wrong.

Re:Marijuana Addiction Is Real. Those Struggling Often Face ... by ekam on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:50PM (#36948599)
How is being conservative about weed dangerous?
Re:Marijuana Addiction Is Real. Those Struggling Often Face ... by gnulinux on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:11PM (#36948881)
Because THC is shown to be an effective care for many mental and physical problems. THC itself can be dangerous or even very dangerous (psychosis risk etc) but this doesn't warrant being so overly cautious that we miss the forest for the trees. Facts show THC can be a very effective palliative tool, and it's unclear how much damage you can do with short-term regular use.
Re:Marijuana Addiction Is Real. Those Struggling Often Face ... by pstuart on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:20PM (#36949004)
It likely corresponds with supporting bad drug laws.
Re:Marijuana Addiction Is Real. Those Struggling Often Face ... by thuuuomas on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:01PM (#36949487)
Incarceration is dangerous
Re:Marijuana Addiction Is Real. Those Struggling Often Face ... by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:01PM (#36948768)
> You very clearly have a dangerous bias against THC and it's clear in your rhetoric

On the topic of biases, I wonder why you consider theirs to be "dangerous".

Regardless, their biases to seem to stem from a certain personal experience with marijuana, particularly their friends' habits with it. It's possible this person's "friends who spend majority of their day high" have a substance abuse problem even if not everybody who uses the substance abuses it.

Re:Marijuana Addiction Is Real. Those Struggling Often Face ... by gnulinux on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:11PM (#36948888)
I responded to a similar question below:

> Because THC is shown to be an effective care for many mental and physical problems. THC itself can be dangerous or even very dangerous (psychosis risk etc) but this doesn't warrant being so overly cautious that we miss the forest for the trees. Facts show THC can be a very effective palliative tool, and it's unclear how much damage you can do with short-term regular use.

To add, it also leads to apologism of (or apathy for) locking people up for consuming THC.

Re:Marijuana Addiction Is Real. Those Struggling Often Face ... by arp242 on Monday July 31, 2023 @05:02PM (#36948774)
The context here is "friends who spend majority of their day high". Call me conservative or "dangerously biased", but doesn't strike me as healthy.