Last year, more middle-aged adults were binge drinking, using marijuana or consuming hallucinogens than ever before, according to a new report. Cannabis use surged among young adults under 30, alongside historic rates of vaping, as well.
Damn, beat me by 5 minutes!
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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
If I recall the research, increases are pretty slight from legalization.
COVID and the largest disruption to social and economic conditions in human history is the alpha and omega for pretty much anything that significantly changed in the last three years.
it’s kinda hard to give a fuck about public health regarding cannabis when watching the complete apathy for COVID precautions.
oh, cannabis makes some people think slower? you sure that wasn’t brain damage from a deadly virus?
oh, cannabis makes some people think slower? you sure that wasn’t brain damage from a deadly virus?
Same thing with lung damage. Like oh, is that something you care about now?
I know I’m not the same anymore
Damn, that’s a good point. It’s like broken windows theory for society at large.
I’d be curious on this research. I could be completely wrong but I feel like with legalization and having the conveniency of dispensaries it would mean more frequent use and even new use. Do you know if this research was for why they used and not if they would of used it wasn’t legal and didn’t have dispensaries?
I’m finding conflicting research now that I’m looking again. In Colorado for example use definitely went up after legalization but not by a significant amount more than it was already going up, year over year. Youth usage went down.
Maybe for new people that didn’t use it because it was illegal.
Before it was legal I would buy as much as I could because I hated meeting dealers. Now that I can go to a shop I don’t really mind going a few days without.
I tend to smoke more when I have a lot vs just having an eighth from the dispo that I’ll just stretch because I know I can just go get more any time with ease.
Also ime with new users where I live. People love the 5mg gummies. That’s not what we used to do with edibles before legalization. I don’t think a lot of new users are getting baked like snoop, unless maybe they are a part of party culture.
Also it seems younger people consider always-stoned-stoners junkies. It’s not a cool look anymore it’s just pretty pathetic and sad.
Ditto. The first 3 paragraphs. Ditto. I smoke less because I can pick up whenever. I ran out 2 weeks ago and will pick up next time I’m in the city and in the area. I could go to the city now but I’m too lazy.
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Alcohol will remain my favorite drug until they come out with drugs that are more fun than alcohol.
I’ve done just about everything but heroin, and whole heroin does seem really fun, the externalities are too big to ignore.
I became an alcoholic.
It’s a shitty drug.
Several cities (including my own) and Oregon have decriminalized hallucinogenic mushrooms so it is not a huge surprise that rates increased.
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.
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!
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.
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
Gen-X and millennials are getting old and their habits never changed. Film at eleven.
More people just admit now. The drinking is always concerning
hits the bong hell ya it did!
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.
S’all we know brah.
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.
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.
What dose should I use?
Edibles heavily depend on your weight and how much you’ve had to eat, so I can’t say. Smoking/vaping is easier because the effects are immediate so you can dose as you go.
Luckily you can’t OD, so the worst thing that happens is you get really nauseous. You’d have to take A LOT for that to happen though, or combine it with alcohol.
You can always try a dab pen. Those are really easy and, most likely, you’d get immediately blasted after just one hit. Downside is that the intake method definitely affects the high and dab pens are one of the worst ways to go, or so I’ve heard.
I just don’t have the best lungs, asthma, so I’m leery of smoking anything. I’ll see if I feel wild enough one weekend to try the dab pen.
You could also try fast acting edibles or a tincture, those hit your bloodstream quicker and differently than normal edibles
I think tincture might be an idea, thanks amigo.
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.
I remember my friends and I smoked like $500 in weed in one night to celebrate our high school graduation. It was my first time. The only difference I remember feeling is my throat hurting and getting the munchies.
Yeah I ate some cereal and went to bed. Big whoop.
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.
