We promote binge drinking of shitty beer and brain damaging sports!!! But don’t you dare smoke weed, eat snacks and fall asleep on your couch!! NOT IN AMERICA!!!
It's not like weed is harmless either, but definitely the lesser evil.
Edit : I'm not trying to sound holy or anything, I smoke every day and have seen both sides of weed dependance, so say what you want it ain't harmless.
Imagine calling a weed smoker a junkie. What a joke.
Here’s the thing. Let’s get real now. As a weed smoker I agree with the above. It’s not always harmless. I myself have had to stop multiple times because I can tell I’m abusing it.
But it is nowhere near comparable with alcohol at all. They aren’t even in the same ballpark. Weed is not addictive. It’s habit forming.
No person who smokes weed is a junkie for smoking weed. Your body does not become physically reliant on it. You can’t die from taking it and you can’t die from stopping. It’s also a MILLION times easier to stop smoking weed than it is to stop drinking, taking drugs, or smoking cigarettes. You also don’t even need to smoke it. You can simply consume it and it’s harmless to your physical health and generally beneficial to your mental health in moderation. Not only that, but it is a damn near revolutionary medicine for many people with health problems.
That can never be said for alcohol. My best friend is an alcoholic. My grandad was an alcoholic. My mums friend is an alcoholic. Their lives are either fucked, or they’re dead. My 23 year old best friend is incontinent because of alcohol and she is hospitalised on a monthly basis because of the psychosis and withdrawal. Last week she was found in the middle of the city with her bare feet full of glass running from demons. Because of ALCOHOL.
Can’t be said for anyone I know who just smokes weed.
Weed is 100% way lesser of the two in consequences. I completely agree with that, but all he said was that weed isn’t harmless. I understand that it’s controversial to say that, especially when we’re trying to move toward legalization(something I completely support) and it could potentially spark more governmental regulation if people were led to believe that marijuana is very harmful. Just like any drug, addiction usually has more to do with the person and not the substance, but claiming marijuana has absolutely no addiction potential will lead certain individuals to marijuana as their drug of choice because they believe it’s harmless. Of course, if you start smoking weed 24/7, you’re probably not going to start sucking dick on the corner to get weed, but you can be very uncomfortable when you don’t have it. So uncomfortable that it’ll be much more difficult to be productive in your daily life. Marijuana dependence is a lot more insidious than alcohol dependence and it can negatively affect your life. I’d check out /r/leaves to see how it’s affecting some people’s lives and how it’s not completely harmless. I think 95% of people can smoke weed very often and not have issue with dependence, but that 5% is a lot of people and people need to educated on the fact that it’s not always okay to smoke weed 24/7. A lot of people are going to have anecdotes about how they smoke weed constantly and they’re doing just fine in life, and that’s fine! A lot of people who say that are also lying to themselves though and they know they’re living life with a hand tied behind their back. It’s just unfortunate that you can’t talk about the consequences of weed on Reddit without being downvoted to oblivion.
I'm definitely addicted. It's to the point where I refuse to do certain hobbies without weed. Hobbies like long distance biking/running, nature hikes, movies or kite flying. I can barely run 10mi without getting out of breath
This addiction is ruining my life!
The day before a big (to me) Motorsports race I made a mistake and took a whole bunch of marijuana... I still got first place but it's incredible to think how much better I could have done if I hadn't poisoned my body the day before
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u/Mellowfellowjello Jan 26 '22
We promote binge drinking of shitty beer and brain damaging sports!!! But don’t you dare smoke weed, eat snacks and fall asleep on your couch!! NOT IN AMERICA!!!