Comment by semanticjudo
5 years ago
By just about any measure alcohol is a "harder" drug than marijuana but certainly more broadly acceptable.
5 years ago
By just about any measure alcohol is a "harder" drug than marijuana but certainly more broadly acceptable.
i have had a theory for years if you sold any drug like meth or cocaine in an advil bottle with a label on the side saying “take at most 1 tablet every 4 hours, do not exceed 6 tablets in one day. do not use for more than 2 days in a row” etc then the vast majority of people would not have any issue with it. the people who are already abusing it would continue to abuse it. most people can be around hard addictive drugs ingrained in society like alcohol and do just fine
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Meth in a bottle is called Adderral.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/94rk1a/how_is_m...
> Meth in a bottle is called Adderral.
No, it's not. Please stop spreading this age-old myth*. You can literally buy prescription meth in a bottle, and it's called Desoxyn.
Adderall is extremely similar, because amphetamine is quite similar to meth (just an inferior version IME). D-meth is probably 20-30% more potent than d-amp dose for dose, but with somewhat reduced unwanted peripheral (body) side effects. The other main differences are meth releases some serotonin (not nearly as much as MDMA) while amp releases almost none, and that for whatever reason methamphetamine takes 3-3.5 hours to reach peak blood concentration when taken orally, whereas amphetamine peaks much sooner.
* I get it, the point isn't literally that it's meth, just that it's similar. But it's silly thing to say rhetorically when you can literally get prescription d-methamphetamine in the US under the brand name Desoxyn.
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Meth in a bottle is called Desoxyn (methamphetamine hydrochloride). https://www.rxlist.com/desoxyn-drug.htm
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And us socially acceptable in the bay area to be dependent
Having never done weed, if I smoke one will I preform worse at cognitive tasks than I would if I had a beer?
I know, comparing uppers and downers, not the same effects, etc.
It's difficult to say what an equivalent dose might be and this is just my experience, but...
Definitely cognitive tasks would be considered more impaired by weed than beer, at "roughly equivalent to a pint" level. Likely neither would be a big deal.
Weed is neither upper, nor downer really, it an hallucinogen.
That means less ordered thinking. Quite possibly an increase in creativity and lateral concept matching (say, making or appreciating witty comments) but also an impairment to short term memory and direct logical reasoning.
For motor skills and reaction times, beer definitely hits harder.
Oh, and on dosage, I'm from the UK. In my experience in the US a single joint is rolled to a potency I'd consider equivalent to "a mug full of whisky", not a pint of beer!
Depends on a few factors like what task, innate ability, etc. Which is not a non-answer - it is THE answer: in my experience, some things are easier on one than the other and vice versa.
FWIW, here's my definition of a "hard" drug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29028924
In my experience I can code on alcohol (unless I get completely shit faced.) Weed makes me more creative and I want to code more, but I also make a lot of mistakes that I wouldn’t normally. This is why I quit cannabis, in math classes I would mess up simple things like forgetting to multiply by -1
They're not really comparable. It mostly comes down to dosage, if you have a beer I don't think you'll be much worse than if you were sober.