Comment by andai
10 hours ago
Weed can ruin your life, and I'm not referring to the "makes you a boring pothead who doesn't do anything" outcome, but the "triggers debilitating mental illness" outcome.
And I say that as someone who likes weed! I've just seen it happen too many times. The chance is low, but you don't know which category you're in until it happens, and you definitely don't want to find out.
I support legalization, for several reasons, but harmless she is not!
It's a full blown psychedelic, and a lot of people don't seem to realize that. So I think the pendulum counter swing from the war on drugs is ironically doing a lot of unnecessary harm.
> full blown
> does harm
> ruins lives
Alcohol or amphetamine I would agree especially since they are so heavily promoted in our culture. There are kids taking amphetamine pills genuinely ruining themselves - huge problem.
Millennials are drinking themselves to death by their 40s.
But I can’t see it with weed, which I consider to be more like coffee or tea. A drug yes (so is caffeine) but not going to ruin your life like booze or pills will.
Coffee withdrawal is way worse than cannabis. And I’d say the tunnel vision aspect of coffee is more pronounced - it’s a high that takes over your whole body and personality but nobody says anything about it. I think because of how it’s presented and nothing more.