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Damn, beat me by 5 minutes!
Would you like to ~~know~~ smoke more?
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Is anyone really surprised cannabis use surged? Like with legalization you would think it would have that cause and effect.
Im glad psychedelic use surged. Makes you see reality differently and can be amazing for mental health issues which needs to be utilized. Fuck the war on drugs
Alcohol can go away though but it’s hard when there is quite literally no future to be seen
Alcohol can go away though but it’s hard when there is quite literally no future to be seen
This hits hard.
Same here. Might as well surf the piss till you find the light at the end of the tube.
Im glad psychedelic use surged. Makes you see reality differently and can be amazing for mental health issues which needs to be utilized. Fuck the war on drugs
I would still be on SSRIs if it wasn’t for my magic mushies, and they’ve done better than SSRIs ever did.
I've started growing some for this exact purpose. How do you dose and what form do you take them?
0.25g every other day via ground mush in capsules. Good luck growing! It’s kinda fun too!
I recommend starting with actual trips before getting into micro dosing. Start with a low to moderate dose and wait at least two weeks before trips. Good luck, enjoy the journey!
Feel it out. I'd say 0.25g.
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I became an alcoholic.
It's a shitty drug.
Alcohol can go away though but it’s hard when there is quite literally no future to be seen
Probably will when they legalize the other things.
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Several cities (including my own) and Oregon have decriminalized hallucinogenic mushrooms so it is not a huge surprise that rates increased.
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Binge drinking is the misuse of alcohol. But use to excess isn't implied here for cannabis or hallucinogens.
It's like comparing increases in murder, jay walking and loitering; just not very helpful really.
Almost like the younger generations got absolutely stalled and now have rough futures thanks to climate change.
Throw in a decade or two of “marijuana is bad and will leave you addicted and homeless” just to grow up and find out “nope that was primarily just a few greedy bastards shoving opiates down our throats” and wham, you’ve got yourself a generation primed for escapism.
Hatred will not be humanity's end.
Greed will.
The Wealthy Boomers stole the future from their own kids eyes wide open, now they and their devoted lackeys want to bitch about the swaths of disaffected, that they caused, numbing the pain of that reality.
What do they want? For us to thank them for the opportunity to have to clean up the multi-generational fallout of their economic, cultural, and ecological damage and be grateful for it? Fuck off with that.
Humanity will eventually overcome the lead poisoned generation's kneecapping of it, but don't expect anyone to start whistling about it.
Hmmmm. Let's see.
A world on the brink of all-out war again, political parties diving head first into the shallow end of fascism, and increasing signs that mother earth is going to shake us off like a bad case of the fleas.
Yep. Pass the bong brothers and sisters and don't skimp on the micro-dose.
Turn that micro-dose into a macro-dose and I'm in!
Now how do we start slipping Republicans cannabis brownies so they lighten the fuck up?
A high Nazi is still a Nazi. They don't need to lighten up they need to be excised like tumors, good thing pot can help with tumors
Yeah, the Ku Klux Klan smoked weed and it didn't chill them out
On a somewhat related note - man, Jeff Sessions was and is an asshole
Binge drinking aside; weed being legalized in a number of states over the past decade, in addition to this generation realizing the war on drugs was pure nonsense, yeah of course people enjoy getting high. More than likely their reporting is that more people are comfortable admitting they like to party due to society's relaxing views on drug use.
GENX RULEZ!
MILLENNIUMALES DROOL!
Now if we could just get them elected.
'historic rates of vaping, as well' it's not like we have a huge stretch of time to be making these kinds of claims lbr lol
Might as well, not like any of us have a future. The most you can hope for is you live past retirement age and get to eat cat food and lay in your own filth in a nursing home. We could fix all our problems easily step 1. Don't listen to the economists step 2. Don't listen to the shamens, but we won't.
So smoke them if you got them.
hits the bong hell ya it did!
More people just admit now. The drinking is always concerning
I'm in my forties and last year I got a wild hair and thought that I should try cannabis at least once in my life, and I bought a gummy to try. I spent all night waiting for anything to happen, and just ended up going to bed. I'm missing out on what these people in the article are doing I guess because that was just boring.
It's very common to not feel anything the first time. I don't know if there is a scientific reason why, I'd be interested to see a study on it. My guess is dosing issues and maybe preconceptions getting in the way.
You can always try again with a higher dose and/or different delivery method. Edibles especially are difficult to dose because they kick in 2h+ after ingestion and heavily depend on metabolism. Inhalation is essentially immediate.
Yeah, edibles are often really weak for me, even when they work. Try smoking or vaping for a better sense of what it's like.
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Broken arm and they wouldn't give me any pain meds, I decided to try cannabis. Best painkiller ever. Now I pop a gummy just about every Saturday night, or before a flight. As a whole it is enjoyable but for four or so hours I am pretty much useless. With booze I can still get some stuff done.
You might just not be affected by gummies, other edibles may work for you. If you're in a legal state, tinctures and vape carts are a good way to experience it.
I'm like you in that edibles really don't affect me (I've had close to a gram before I felt anything), but I enjoy microdosing with THC carts.
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It's cause we don't stigmatize weed and hallucinogens like past generations have. The booze is probably because of COVID, or that we're just all a bit depressed with being fucked over by life in general. Booze has always been there, but weed and hallucinogens don't leave you fucking hungover.
Life sucks. If you can't be happy naturally, look to a chemical solution.
Smoking weed or consuming cannabinoids and binge drinking are two completely different categories.
Alcohol is more unhealthy and potentially connected to social issues right from the drop, and regular binge drinking implies alcoholism as opposed to someone who might be consuming cannabis moderately.
In the end, taking cannabis and/or alcohol in moderation is perfectly ok for adults and shouldn't be something that we consider taboo.
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Historic rates of vaping?
Yeah, the product isn't even 20 years old yet. I am in the process of quitting right now.
S'all we know brah.
Omg I’m 35 next month. I’ll be considered middle age. Fuuuuuuck.. At least I’ll contribute to the non-binge drinking since I’m sober.
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