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by tlss 1569 days ago
Recreational marijuana and JUUL is very much a millenial/gen Z hobby, and it is being pushed with a fervor that glosses over serious studies any potential health risks.

IMO weed will be in 50 years where "big tobacco" is right now.
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mountainriver 1569 days ago
Not a chance, maybe smoking marijuana, but not edibles. I know plenty of people that have done them their entire lives and are in great shape
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ifyoubuildit 1569 days ago
That sounds a lot like "my grandmother smoked 2 packs a day and lived til she was 99."

I think the whole point is that it hasn't been studied yet, so we can't say definitively if its safe or not.

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mountainriver 1558 days ago
Smoking something is obviously bad for your health, I don't need a study to tell me that, you are literally inhaling smoke. Followed by masses dying of cancer.

Eating marijuana can have some negative cognitive effects but its pretty obvious it doesn't do anything terrible looking at all the old hippies.

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ifyoubuildit 1553 days ago
For one thing, has anyone actually looked at all the old hippies? And if they have, the old hippies probably didn't have access to anything as potent as we do, and I'm assuming today's edibles are (or eventually will be) full of all sorts of nonsense additives, because that's what we do.

I'm not saying I know either way, but this seems like an easy thing to be wrong about.

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mountainriver 1548 days ago
I mean we're not talking about additives, there are additives in lots of stuff that makes it harmful. And yes the old hippies didn't have as strong of weed, and there may be some threshold at which bad things happen more frequently, but just looking at the big picture it doesn't look all that dire.

It definitely hurts parts of cognition, and is linked to certain mental illnesses, there are other odd and end health concerns that pop up rarely. Overall marijuana is pretty gentle when ingested, you can just tell from your own health when consuming it.

When I smoked cigarettes I felt terrible all the time, and when I stopped it was night and day. Consuming edibles I feel pretty darn good actually, less stress, better sleep, and when I get off them I don't feel like I've been harming my body. This opinion is shared by pretty much everyone I know

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