OK boomer
Hey! It fits this time
I spent age 16-25 a constant pothead. I mean, some weeks I’d just never be sober. My friend said that I sat up in bed, opened the drawer, pulled out a baggie, packed a bowl, smoked 2 hits, and then layed back down. All without waking up, or stop snoring.
I have never once done any other drug. I’m 42 now, and haven’t smoked weed in about 10 years.
I know others with similar stories. Weed does not lead to other drugs. Your choices do.
Improper education leads to other, harder drugs. See DARE
Weed led me to lsd which led to improving myself through some good long looks in the mirror. Meanwhile opiate addiction is far more frequently caused by legitimate prescription (and I’m not advocating against it, yall don’t want to experience surgery like those of us who are allergic have to)
Translation: I did whatever the fuck I wanted to do and now I’ve worked out that I was a shithead. It therefore follows that it was these external things that made me a shithead. Nevermind that countless other people have experienced the same things as “essentially harmless fun.” I, of course (having been a raging shithead) am in a position to know better.
The logic is flawless.
Elton John, confirmed boomer.
Exactly, it’s like closing a mountain trail entirely because one idiot took a selfie too close to the edge
I wish the press would stop asking fucking celebrities questions about social issues. They do not represent society and never will.
I agree, but I find it amusing in this case since this guy pretty much owes his career to people in the 70s getting high and listening to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Typical Boomer/Conservative move. They enjoy something and then enjoy it even more by telling everyone else they’re not allowed to use it.
As much of a shit head as he is, I can separate the man from the music and jam that shit loud as fuck because good lord it’s a banger.
I agree that it could be considered addictive. But same could be said about booze. Prohibition is horseshit.
Yeah, having nuance on the Internet is hard.
I appreciate his history and how it guides this, but I argue that - in the context of addiction - not banning alcohol and its societal promotion is a greater harm by any government. Absurd? Yes. But deep down inside it’s no more absurd than prohibiting marijuana considering their similarities in societal use. I was going to say similarities in relative harm too, but alcohol is killing vastly more people than all other recreational drugs.
Canada legalizing marijuana simply stopped criminalizing normal society. The matrix of harm/help of alcohol, weed, and others is way more complex than prohibition.
We already know what alcohol prohibition did in the U.S. and we know that our prisons are filled with people who happened to have a dime bag in their pocket when a cop stopped them. He’s not an idiot. He has to know about both of those things.
He must not be very intelligent to hold these debunked and outdated views. Quite out of touch with reality.
He seems to be a sobriety zealot. Most of the damage caused by marijuana is the illegality of it
It’s always good to hear what the experts have to say on these matters.
What a douche.
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Soooooooooooo, Germany’s Legalization is fine then?
Okay good! (Join the BubatzGartenClub!)
Bin ich cool genug, einzuladen?
Na klar!
I get paranoid from weed.
But I do like myself some ketamine, cocaine, LSD, DMT, GHB, and MDMA :D
Be careful with ketamine. Matthew Perry died of it in a terrible way. This was after he had a colostomy because his colon burst from opioid use. I don’t want it to get away on you like that.
I have done ketamine for 15 years. No need to worry.
There was one year where the police house struck me by taking away my drivers license and money, which made me use a lot. I was driving sober but there were leftover traces in my system. Good enough for them to fuck me hard and kick me to the ground. I ended up using around 5g per day and I had 6 bladder infections that year.
The only drugs that ever got me in trouble was the copium the law boofs when terrorizing drug users. Ketamine has always been something that helped me, except for when I used it to forget about the terrible situation the police left me in. I definitely take some blame for trying to forget, but it was the only thing I could do to not be consumed with absolute hate.
There are bad outcomes to cannabis use. It can kick off schizophrenia and depersonalization disorder, it actually can lower your IQ, and ending up in hospital because of palpitations from the high doses in gummies also happens, as well as cannabis hyperemesis, and it can affect sexual health and cause long term changes in the brain. This podcast did some great research https://www.psychiatrypodcast.com/psychiatry-psychotherapy-podcast/2019/5/1/marijuana-and-mental-health
Do I think recreational use is any more risky than alcohol? No. But using alcohol every day isn’t great and neither is cannabis. A drink or two, a joint on the weekend? Not a big deal. Have some fun.
I think legalization in Canada is a bit mixed, dispensing with arresting and prosecuting people for having a little pot was a waste of time, and I don’t really care if people relax with it. But there is a demonstrated increase in adverse outcomes from cannabis with legalization on the studies. And the 90 zillion weed stores in every city is overkill. Literally one on every block.
I don’t use cannabis, the two times I’ve tried it it just made me tired so I don’t see the point, but I don’t care if people do. I just don’t think it’s wise not to know the risks.
It can make sense if you flesh it out. The headline and two lines the musician said about it are shallow, but there’s a grain of truth in there.
I do believe that overuse of marijuana is going to be a negative. Kids under 24 using marijuana is going to be a negative. And both of those are going to increase with legalization.
Neither are as harmful as prohibition, but they’re still harmful.
Potheads don’t need to be on quite the same level as alcoholism, but it should be closer than it is. If you’re not acknowledging the harm of using the legal system to enforce this, his quote makes sense. He may not have stated it well.
Issue being that legalization always leads to less and safer use.
Safer, sure. Less? Absolutely not. More people will use marijuana when it’s legal.
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What does this aging fossil have to say that’s important?
