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[–] Mangoholic@lemmy.ml -2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

If there is one thing weed is really good at, it is making people okay with being lazy and with their current situation. LSD on the otherhand, can really make you rethink everything.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

what's wrong with being content and finding peace? The productivity drive has been driven into you by capitalism and leads to mass discontentment and suffering. One must detach from endless striving to achieve true enlightenment and happiness, and weed can do that and chill people out and cure them of their "protestant work ethic" which is a cultural disease.

Inherent in this type of "weed makes you lazy" rhetoric is that it makes other people lazy. You want everyone else working endlessly and tirelessly implicitly here, that they must face endless burden for your benefit. It's a form of social control where you are attempting to force your values onto others instead of respecting their right to chose what they do with their own body and life.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/smoking-weed-more-emphathetic-study/ Fwiw.

My partner has an Rx for his myriad of autoimmune stuff. It really helps him when he isn't feeling well.

[–] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if it's causal, but it could also be that more naturally empathetic people trend towards weed to cope with the reality that our society is brutal and predatory and uncaring. I know I need weed just to cope with living in a fascist society where almost everyone around me shrugs their shoulders at genocide.

Also it could be shared confounding variables like the fact that more poor, young and POC people smoke, and old rich white people have drained themselves of all empathy

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 points 18 hours ago

Whatever gets you through the day. Glad to have others with heart around. :)