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Feline_Heart
06/28/21 2:21:32 PM
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I was just watching an episode of The Wayans Bros and they were acting like weed was the most dangerous drug out there. They said that doing weed will fry your brain and completely ruin your life. It seemed weird to me especially because both the main characters were in their twenties but this was practically an after school special about how bad weed is lol. Its interesting that just 20 years later weed is seen as mostly harmless and its being legalized in so many states. What drug do you think people will focus on next as the "evil gateway drug" after weed is finally legalized federally?

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UnfairRepresent
06/28/21 2:22:29 PM
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Feline_Heart posted...
What drug do you think people will focus on next as the "evil gateway drug" after weed is finally legalized federally?
Whatever black people statistically use the most going by US history

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Questionmarktarius
06/28/21 2:22:54 PM
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Feline_Heart posted...
What drug do you think people will focus on next as the "evil gateway drug" after weed is finally legalized federally?
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s0nicfan
06/28/21 2:26:20 PM
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Feline_Heart posted...
What drug do you think people will focus on next as the "evil gateway drug" after weed is finally legalized federally?

Mushrooms. There are some studies out that show real medicinal benefits to psychedelics but it's going to face massive public backlash before it gets any kind of regulatory approval.

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nothanks1
06/28/21 2:26:30 PM
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It still fucks your brain up
People thinking 'bro I can smoke every day and be totally fine' doesn't make biology wrong.
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Feline_Heart
06/28/21 2:28:06 PM
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nothanks1 posted...
It still fucks your brain up
People thinking 'bro I can smoke every day and be totally fine' doesn't make biology wrong.
I've never had it. I just think that acting like its just as bad as crack and crystal meth is funny

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Zikten
06/28/21 2:31:32 PM
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For decades the US government did a propaganda campaign to convince people that Marijuana is evil and the worst thing ever. Boomers saw an "educational" video in school about Reefer Madness that said if you smoke weed you will turn into a psychopath

This is why so many boomers today oppose weed legalization. Things are gradually changing though as people who didn't get brainwashed as kids are coming into power
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pure_temper
06/28/21 2:32:11 PM
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nothanks1 posted...
It still fucks your brain up
People thinking 'bro I can smoke every day and be totally fine' doesn't make biology wrong.

source?

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s0nicfan
06/28/21 2:36:36 PM
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pure_temper posted...
source?

It's been somewhat well known for a while now that smoking weed as an adolescent legitimately leads to stunted brain development. It's just one of those things that is much less prevalent if you start as an adult.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930618/
teens who engage in heavy marijuana use often show disadvantages in neurocognitive performance, macrostructural and microstructural brain development, and alterations in brain functioning.

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WaterLink
06/28/21 2:38:57 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Mushrooms. There are some studies out that show real medicinal benefits to psychedelics but it's going to face massive public backlash before it gets any kind of regulatory approval.

Didn't Oregon legalize them? And they're decriminalized in other places too.

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unnamedsoldier
06/28/21 2:39:49 PM
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Feline_Heart posted...
They said that doing weed will fry your brain and completely ruin your life.

That's true though
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CoolMaskGuy
06/28/21 2:40:04 PM
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Yeah, I heard it's mostly adolescents who are affected but I've known some adults where weed (or at least the amount they were smoking) was definitely affecting their life/mind in a negative way. For that reason I avoid the stuff myself.

I believe it should be legal as I see no good reason for it to be illegal while alcohol isn't, but we also should get rid of the attitude that everyone who says anything negative about weed is an ignorant "boomer".
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Lost_All_Senses
06/28/21 2:40:34 PM
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Wasn't their show after they did Scary Movie and Don't Be a Manace? I can't remember now.

nothanks1 posted...
It still fucks your brain up
People thinking 'bro I can smoke every day and be totally fine' doesn't make biology wrong.

Lol. I really hope you're doing a bit, givin your lifestyle.

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pure_temper
06/28/21 2:41:36 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
It's been somewhat well known for a while now that smoking weed as an adolescent legitimately leads to stunted brain development. It's just one of those things that is much less prevalent if you start as an adult.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3930618/

oh yeah i knew about that, but i thought thats only for young teens and thats why it has an age limit of 21+ where legal

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Feline_Heart
06/28/21 2:45:30 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
Wasn't their show after they did Scary Movie and Don't Be a Manace? I can't remember now.

Lol. I really hope you're doing a bit, givin your lifestyle.
I think Dont be a menace came out during the first season of the show and Scary Movie came out right after the show ended

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nothanks1
06/28/21 2:46:05 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Lol. I really hope you're doing a bit, givin your lifestyle.

I mean alcohol also kills braincells if you take it daily
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s0nicfan
06/28/21 2:47:18 PM
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WaterLink posted...
Didn't Oregon legalize them? And they're decriminalized in other places too.

I was thinking more at the national level, the way weed legalization at the state level has faced the same national hurdles.

pure_temper posted...
oh yeah i knew about that, but i thought thats only for young teens and thats why it has an age limit of 21+ where legal

I don't know that enough studies have been done on the impacts to the adult brain among adults that didn't smoke until they were adults to know for sure, but it's fair to say that if it has impacts on a developing brain there's reason to think it might have impacts on a developed brain.

And that's without touching on the impact to the lungs that smoking has. I've heard a lot of people say that smoking weed has no negative effects but carcinogens are still being inhaled into the lungs and almost assuredly have the same type of impact as cigarette smoking even if it's on a lesser scale.

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Ratchetrockon
06/28/21 2:47:52 PM
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i thought weed was bad for schizophrenics?
My friend claims weed fucked him up throughout his early 20s. He does have to take pills to manage his schizophrenia altho he frequently doesn't take them because it makes him feel weird.

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AsucaHayashi
06/28/21 2:49:08 PM
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CoolMaskGuy
06/28/21 2:49:41 PM
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Ratchetrockon posted...
i thought weed was bad for schizophrenics?
My friend claims weed fucked him up throughout his early 20s. He does have to take pills to manage his schizophrenia altho he frequently doesn't take them because it makes him feel weird.

I've heard it can trigger dormant schizophrenia in individuals who have the gene for it. Whether it would've come out anyway even without weed, I don't know.
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sktgamer_13dude
06/28/21 2:51:05 PM
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Think its cute that brutai is pointing that out about weed, yet the guy is a drunk and sees no issues with that at all.

Makes you think.
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Lost_All_Senses
06/28/21 2:51:25 PM
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Feline_Heart posted...
I think Dont be a menace came out during the first season of the show and Scary Movie came out right after the show ended

Oh. Funny all them went on to weed movies. I guess John Witherspoon wasn't actually a direct advocate of weed in his movie series tho.

nothanks1 posted...
I mean alcohol also kills braincells if you take it daily

Yeah...only if daily lol. You're also making assumptions of use. No one said this was about using weed daily.

Also, we're pretty much all using sugar that contributes to our stupidity. I wonder if there's more sugar in weed or alcohol....

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nothanks1
06/28/21 2:55:58 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...
No one said this was about using weed daily.

My post was attacking the ones that tend to use it every day or second day and get ASS BLASTED stoned for like 5-6 hours a day or more and can barely function.
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Ratchetrockon
06/28/21 2:57:56 PM
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CoolMaskGuy posted...
I've heard it can trigger dormant schizophrenia in individuals who have the gene for it. Whether it would've come out anyway even without weed, I don't know.

i think its like steroid use for men and male pattern baldness. those men would have gone bald eventually due to carrying the genes but it just happens much earlier on steroids.

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MutantJohn
06/28/21 2:59:10 PM
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Actually, any amount of alcohol damages your brain. Don't lie to yourself

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KINDERFELD
06/28/21 2:59:55 PM
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Here in Florida folks still act like only lazy unproductive bums smoke weed.
Then they turn around, pop pain pills and wash them down with vodka.

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Lost_All_Senses
06/28/21 3:00:00 PM
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nothanks1 posted...
My post was attacking the ones that tend to use it every day or second day and get ASS BLASTED stoned for like 5-6 hours a day or more and can barely function.

Yet, you decided to make the other side of the argument not about people who get blackout drunk daily. You're arguing to win and not to actually have a conversation.

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nothanks1
06/28/21 3:01:14 PM
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Lost_All_Senses posted...


Yet, you decided to make the other side of the argument not about people who get blackout drunk daily. You're arguing to win and not to actually have a conversation.

Because don't need to get blackout drunk daily to cause long lasting damage with alcohol
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MutantJohn
06/28/21 3:01:23 PM
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But yeah, legalization and advocating for responsible use aren't mutually exclusive.

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catboy
06/28/21 3:01:56 PM
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I had a paranoid break from abusing weed and adderall in my early 20s, but I don't know if I would have had those problems without smoking weed.

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Lost_All_Senses
06/28/21 3:07:46 PM
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nothanks1 posted...
Because don't need to get blackout drunk daily to cause long lasting damage with alcohol

Then I don't know what the argument is lol

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yemmy
06/28/21 3:08:17 PM
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It gives me intrusive thoughts and just overall anxiety

I smoked it every day for over 15 years and made excuses as to why I needed it for stomach issues and anxiety only to find out later it was making it worse.

I dont care what people put inside their bodies as long as it doesn't affect me, and YMMV of course, but looking back I wish I woulda never touched it, and I see people addicted to it all the time. It is the only drug addiction other than alcohol that people embrace on social media

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sktgamer_13dude
06/28/21 3:11:13 PM
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yemmy posted...
drug addiction other than alcohol that people embrace on social media

Caffeine
Adderall (for college students)
Cough syrup
Tobacco
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FF_Redux
06/28/21 3:13:56 PM
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Personally it has changed from total opposite view.

When I was in high school they had loads of anti drug campains, I remember they had cops there talking about it, showing pics of hasch saying its super dangerous etc. So I believed it.

But my views changed over the years and then tried it, and it actually was part of helping me overcome my mental breakdown and stopping drinking dangerously.

Now I want it legalized but it prob wont even get decriminilized in my lifetime here. Our laws are strict about it.

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yemmy
06/28/21 3:17:33 PM
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sktgamer_13dude posted...
Caffeine
Adderall (for college students)
Cough syrup
Tobacco

That's true, though I never see anyone embracing tobacco use anymore, in fact it is usually the opposite (unless you're talking about blunts), and if someone is bragging about abusing opiates I'm gonna unfollow/unfriending them real quick like.

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Smashingpmkns
06/28/21 3:18:23 PM
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I forgot what show it was (way before my time) but I remember watching something on Turner Classic TV or whatever and they had a war on drugs episode. The message was "if you smoke weed that will lead you to trying heroin to eventually doing LSD" or something like that. Which is pretty funny.
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Frizzurd
06/28/21 3:27:54 PM
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Oh hohoho weeeed indeed!
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Giant_Aspirin
06/28/21 3:36:11 PM
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if you really wanna see how ignorant most people's views of weed were, watch "Reefer Madness".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhQlcMHhF3w

it's fucking madness

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WaterLink
06/28/21 3:37:07 PM
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Frizzurd posted...
Oh hohoho weeeed indeed!

https://i.imgur.com/VT9758E.gif

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Goatsensation
06/28/21 3:42:02 PM
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anyone else high af right now

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pure_temper
06/28/21 3:56:49 PM
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Goatsensation posted...
anyone else high af right now

been a while since I've been blasted, but pleasant travels my friend

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FF_Redux
06/28/21 4:03:22 PM
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RedJackson
06/28/21 4:06:38 PM
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Goatsensation posted...
anyone else high af right now



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TheGoldenEel
06/28/21 4:18:40 PM
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yemmy posted...
It gives me intrusive thoughts and just overall anxiety

I smoked it every day for over 15 years and made excuses as to why I needed it for stomach issues and anxiety only to find out later it was making it worse.

I dont care what people put inside their bodies as long as it doesn't affect me, and YMMV of course, but looking back I wish I woulda never touched it, and I see people addicted to it all the time. It is the only drug addiction other than alcohol that people embrace on social media
There is no stigma among young people against mdma imo

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