POSSIBLY POLITICAL (MINDKILLING) WARNING: WEED, also I can’t get the asterisks at the bottom to work correctly, what the hell happened to WYSIWYG?
So recently I’ve been acquainted with a few smokers. It’s not really about the smoking itself but rather it’s my overall disposition toward it.
Maybe it’s some sort of blind spot on my hand, I’d appreciate if maybe the nootropics guys can help me with this. But I can’t seem to wrap my head around what are the:
Benefits*
Drawbacks**
Placebo
Obligatory warning that I’m not really knowledgeable nor experienced with any mind-altering substance.
** Most of the benefits I found are usually related to diseases, like cancer and Parkinson’s but anxiety is also commonly mentioned. The diseases part seems interesting, but it’s interesting in the same way that learning that there’s gold under your house. It becomes a question of “How much?”. As for anxiety, it’s part of life and learning to deal with it on your own is better than turning it down. Maybe “What are the benefits random dude #0 could gain from smoking weed?” is a better question.
** Addiction? General brain harm? Money spent? Opportunity cost? I really want to rule addiction out but sometimes it feels like they NEED it in their system, which fits the criteria. Obvious anecdote, but a honest one. Not really sure about brain damage, and damage is a much more powerful description than “long term effects”. As for money, it feels like it already correlates with opportunity cost here, not like they aren’t correlated anyway. My imperfect reasoning system says that after X amount of days I would rather have M amount of money with me than without me but I imagine it also discards the effects in those moments. (Being hungry and buying a small snack, versus staying hungry and keeping the money, the hunger could be annoying at the time but long-term insight suggests that I’m quite likely to find myself a satisfying meal, so should I bear with the hunger?)
There was a doc who did autopsies, that showed a correlation of enlarged heart, and cardiac death, tied to weed. LA i think.
and there is a new disease going around, a stomach thing, that smokers have intense vomiting., Very limited set, but they are trying to get the word out to other emergency docs..
Add personaltity change. This is completely anecdotal but I do hear stories about personality changes. More mellow, sure, but also less motivated and less likely to accept responsibility.
POSSIBLY POLITICAL (MINDKILLING) WARNING: WEED, also I can’t get the asterisks at the bottom to work correctly, what the hell happened to WYSIWYG?
So recently I’ve been acquainted with a few smokers. It’s not really about the smoking itself but rather it’s my overall disposition toward it.
Maybe it’s some sort of blind spot on my hand, I’d appreciate if maybe the nootropics guys can help me with this. But I can’t seem to wrap my head around what are the:
Benefits*
Drawbacks**
Placebo
Obligatory warning that I’m not really knowledgeable nor experienced with any mind-altering substance.
** Most of the benefits I found are usually related to diseases, like cancer and Parkinson’s but anxiety is also commonly mentioned. The diseases part seems interesting, but it’s interesting in the same way that learning that there’s gold under your house. It becomes a question of “How much?”. As for anxiety, it’s part of life and learning to deal with it on your own is better than turning it down. Maybe “What are the benefits random dude #0 could gain from smoking weed?” is a better question.
** Addiction? General brain harm? Money spent? Opportunity cost? I really want to rule addiction out but sometimes it feels like they NEED it in their system, which fits the criteria. Obvious anecdote, but a honest one. Not really sure about brain damage, and damage is a much more powerful description than “long term effects”. As for money, it feels like it already correlates with opportunity cost here, not like they aren’t correlated anyway. My imperfect reasoning system says that after X amount of days I would rather have M amount of money with me than without me but I imagine it also discards the effects in those moments. (Being hungry and buying a small snack, versus staying hungry and keeping the money, the hunger could be annoying at the time but long-term insight suggests that I’m quite likely to find myself a satisfying meal, so should I bear with the hunger?)
There was a doc who did autopsies, that showed a correlation of enlarged heart, and cardiac death, tied to weed. LA i think.
and there is a new disease going around, a stomach thing, that smokers have intense vomiting., Very limited set, but they are trying to get the word out to other emergency docs..
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Add personaltity change. This is completely anecdotal but I do hear stories about personality changes. More mellow, sure, but also less motivated and less likely to accept responsibility.