CopperRunner wrote:
You are so close dude. So close.
Increased mental health issues lead to increased drug use, including marijuana. Is turning to street drugs probably a bad way to cope with your mental health issues? Yup. But people with mental health issues don’t tend to think straight. Every single person I know of who uses drugs regularly (and the statistics again back me up on this, it’s not just anecdote) already had mental health issues before they started abusing substances. Unlike the propagized infomercials you are clearly basing all of your knowledge off of, people don’t start doing drugs because all the cool kids or doing it or whatever narrative they are pushing these days.
Weed doesn’t cause psychosis or dysphoria, it can induce an episode of psychosis for those who are already psychotic bipolar or schizophrenic. Marijuana tends to force one to feel their emotions a lot more strongly than normal, and if you become dysphoric it is because it was already there. Both of these are also traits of alcohol by the way.
And you’re gonna hate this, but the thread discussion is actually whether or not weed is more addictive/harmful than alcohol, not whether or not you should smoke pot. Moving goalposts isn’t the best argumentative strategy for productive discourse. Welcome!
Weed is plenty addictive, especially the catatonic stuff they sell today. Average THC concentrations increased from about 3% in the eighties to 15% today (some are upwards of 30%). This is not your grandpas weed.
