America has a marijuana problem

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Alcoholism is a bigger problem. It makes people angry and reckless. Weed just makes people giggly, laz,y and maybe a little fat.

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Anonymous wrote:Americans love to deceive themselves about drugs.

They pretended like cigarettes weren't addictive and were healthy for a long time until the bodies started piling up by the millions in the morgue.

They pretended like opioids weren't addictive if you had pain, and then they legalized Oxy, which is essentially heroin, and overdose deaths went from manageable to 100,000 a year.

They pretend like giving big pharma the right to market on TV drugs that are worse than the illegal stuff won't create a nation of drug addicts supported by drug obsessed doctors who have never seen a treadmill they've liked.

And they pretend like marijuana is some kind of healthy ass drug when we all know people who've essentially dropped out of life because of it.

and yeah, there's people who do every one of these drugs in excess who do fine -- and we can all giggle about Snoop and Keith Richards -- but that's not the averages.

Agree that at least with alcohol when people drink it everyone knows what they are doing (except for when they told us a glass or two of red wine was great, and it created a breast cancer epidemic).

Good luck all. Don't believe what you read.

I agree with all of this. It's really not just marijuana. It's this human desire to find a quick and easy way to deal with being alive, a state that often sucks, and then just finding ways to rationalize it. American culture is deep into its "magic pill" phase, where there is simply no problem that cannot be fixed with a drug. Of course this is untrue, and all drugs have negative side effects, including marijuana. But you are never supposed to point that out. Don't be a narc.

As it has been pointed out so many times before, some of us use it in menopause to be able to sleep and function. I'm not going to debate with you about how I should be spending hours of my time every day on whatever holistic BS you're going to offer. This works and I see nothing wrong with getting a good night sleep. The alternative is much less healthy.

I don’t think anyone is arguing that marijuana doesn’t have medicinal value. It’s clear that it does.

But that doesn’t mean that it is safe for recreational use. A lot of wonderful medicines should never be used recreationally.

In fact, a lot of people are arguing the opposite. Have you even bothered reading the responses?

I posted strongly against the recreational use of marijuana but said nothing about medicinal use. I absolutely agree that it should be used medicinally. Prescribed and used. But not the Oxy prescriptions of the 1990’s.

Legal marijuana is one of the safest recreational drugs out there. I'd much rather people use that than drink or do any other drug. I agree that we should be regulating it and making it legal everywhere so people don't get it on the street, laced with who knows what.

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Anonymous wrote:As a menopausal woman who hadn’t slept well in years despite doing all the things, the sleep edibles have been a godsend. For the first time in ages I am sleeping deeply, well and consistently. The positive impact this has had on every part of my life is massive. FYI - consistent lack of adequate sleep has significant effects on all of the body’s systems.

Agree with this, and also wonder why I can’t get edible gummies for kids who need a good night’s rest. It’s the same idea. I should be able pick something up like this at the grocery store or CVS.

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Anonymous wrote:Alcoholism is a bigger problem. It makes people angry and reckless. Weed just makes people giggly, laz,y and maybe a little fat.

Alcohol use is way down. Marijuana use is way up. Looks like we’re on our way to a peaceful society.

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I wasn’t thrilled when my 18-year-old daughter started using edibles in college because she wasn’t into drinking or doing drugs, but she mentioned it helped with homesickness. One weekend, we decided to try them together, and honestly, it was the most relaxed I’d felt in a while. Now, a few months later, I use them daily too. They help ease my worry about my baby being away at college and give her comfort when she misses home. I don’t see this as a problem, it’s helped a lot, but to each their own.

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Anonymous wrote:As a menopausal woman who hadn’t slept well in years despite doing all the things, the sleep edibles have been a godsend. For the first time in ages I am sleeping deeply, well and consistently. The positive impact this has had on every part of my life is massive. FYI - consistent lack of adequate sleep has significant effects on all of the body’s systems.

It's weird to me that you are using marijuana like a pharmaceutical yet don't want it to be regulated the way literally all pharmaceuticals, even OTC ones, are regulated. If you get a box of TylenolPM over the counter at CVS for $12, you can feel confident that the formulation is FDA approved, the facility it was manufactured in undergoes regular inspections, even the packaging it comes in has been reviewed and approved for containing accurate, not misleading, information, as well as appropriate warnings. Yet the pot gummies you are taking have none of this oversight. There is not even good consistence with dosing levels in edibles, in large part because the industry is so unregulated.

If these edibles are so essential for your health and well being, why wouldn't you want them to be regulated with the same level of quality control as a bottle of Advil? You only stand to benefit from that.

I'm not saying it couldn't be more regulated but in the states like MD where it is legal, it is regulated a great deal. However, that's not why OP keeps posting. She is against use, period. No amount of regulation is going to make her happy.

https://cannabis.maryland.gov/pages/law.aspx

The sale of medical marijuana in MD is regulated a great deal. The production and packaging of medical marijuana in MD is more minimally controlled. In part because it remains illegal at the federal level.

What you should actually want is FDA regulation of marijuana. Why would you oppose that? Again, why should marijuana be less regulated than Advil? It makes no sense.

I also want smoking marijuana to be regulated in the same way that cigarette and cigar smoke is regulated, because it's a public nuisance. I don't care if people smoke in their own homes but public smoking in DC, where I live, has had a major impact on quality of life. I went to pick up take out the other day and the restaurant smelled of weed when I walked in. My kid has learned to hold her breath walking around parts of our neighborhood because they stink so much do to public pot smoking. It's crazy to me that we had finally gotten to a place with nicotine where it was at least not a public nuisance (though cigarettes are still legal for those who want to consume them), and then we just rolled the clock back 30 years on smoking, only this time with pot. Ugh.

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Anonymous wrote:Alcoholism is a bigger problem. It makes people angry and reckless. Weed just makes people giggly, laz,y and maybe a little fat.

Weed may not make people angry but it can make them apathetic, hard to communicate with, and disinterested in participating in social norms. I'm glad it doesn't make people violent, but I see a lot of social downsides from excess weed use in society, including just making people not care. Society depends on people caring and participating.

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Anonymous wrote:As a menopausal woman who hadn’t slept well in years despite doing all the things, the sleep edibles have been a godsend. For the first time in ages I am sleeping deeply, well and consistently. The positive impact this has had on every part of my life is massive. FYI - consistent lack of adequate sleep has significant effects on all of the body’s systems.

It's weird to me that you are using marijuana like a pharmaceutical yet don't want it to be regulated the way literally all pharmaceuticals, even OTC ones, are regulated. If you get a box of TylenolPM over the counter at CVS for $12, you can feel confident that the formulation is FDA approved, the facility it was manufactured in undergoes regular inspections, even the packaging it comes in has been reviewed and approved for containing accurate, not misleading, information, as well as appropriate warnings. Yet the pot gummies you are taking have none of this oversight. There is not even good consistence with dosing levels in edibles, in large part because the industry is so unregulated.

If these edibles are so essential for your health and well being, why wouldn't you want them to be regulated with the same level of quality control as a bottle of Advil? You only stand to benefit from that.

I'm not saying it couldn't be more regulated but in the states like MD where it is legal, it is regulated a great deal. However, that's not why OP keeps posting. She is against use, period. No amount of regulation is going to make her happy.

https://cannabis.maryland.gov/pages/law.aspx

The sale of medical marijuana in MD is regulated a great deal. The production and packaging of medical marijuana in MD is more minimally controlled. In part because it remains illegal at the federal level.

What you should actually want is FDA regulation of marijuana. Why would you oppose that? Again, why should marijuana be less regulated than Advil? It makes no sense.

I also want smoking marijuana to be regulated in the same way that cigarette and cigar smoke is regulated, because it's a public nuisance. I don't care if people smoke in their own homes but public smoking in DC, where I live, has had a major impact on quality of life. I went to pick up take out the other day and the restaurant smelled of weed when I walked in. My kid has learned to hold her breath walking around parts of our neighborhood because they stink so much do to public pot smoking. It's crazy to me that we had finally gotten to a place with nicotine where it was at least not a public nuisance (though cigarettes are still legal for those who want to consume them), and then we just rolled the clock back 30 years on smoking, only this time with pot. Ugh.

I don't know of any place where smoking weed is permitted but smoking cigarettes isn't. It's not a thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Alcoholism is a bigger problem. It makes people angry and reckless. Weed just makes people giggly, laz,y and maybe a little fat.

No, it isn’t.

Weed abuse has outpaced alcohol consumption.

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Anonymous wrote:Alcoholism is a bigger problem. It makes people angry and reckless. Weed just makes people giggly, laz,y and maybe a little fat.

No, it isn’t.

Weed abuse has outpaced alcohol consumption.

Pretty sure you meant to say weed consumption too and not abuse. I consume weed but I most certainly do not abuse it. I consume alcohol as well and most certainly do not abuse it.

Do you have any proof? Or do we just have a better way to measure now that states are scanning DLs when we buy weed?

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Anonymous wrote:Alcoholism is a bigger problem. It makes people angry and reckless. Weed just makes people giggly, laz,y and maybe a little fat.

Nobody gets high and beats their wife and kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Alcoholism is a bigger problem. It makes people angry and reckless. Weed just makes people giggly, laz,y and maybe a little fat.

No, it isn’t.

Weed abuse has outpaced alcohol consumption.

Pretty sure you meant to say weed consumption too and not abuse. I consume weed but I most certainly do not abuse it. I consume alcohol as well and most certainly do not abuse it.

Do you have any proof? Or do we just have a better way to measure now that states are scanning DLs when we buy weed?

They're full of **** but also why are we still saying marijuana? There's THC and it's many different forms we are worried about. If you want to have a legit argument let's talk THC and all the hemp derivatives vs. some 1930s racist scare mongering term for a substance. If you understand it at this level, I'll have a frank discussion with you - it's not all great, but until then anyone saying there's a "marijuana problem" is just full of themselves the NYT author included.

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Anonymous wrote:Alcoholism is a bigger problem. It makes people angry and reckless. Weed just makes people giggly, laz,y and maybe a little fat.

No, it isn’t.

Weed abuse has outpaced alcohol consumption.

Pretty sure you meant to say weed consumption too and not abuse. I consume weed but I most certainly do not abuse it. I consume alcohol as well and most certainly do not abuse it.

Do you have any proof? Or do we just have a better way to measure now that states are scanning DLs when we buy weed?

They're full of **** but also why are we still saying marijuana? There's THC and it's many different forms we are worried about. If you want to have a legit argument let's talk THC and all the hemp derivatives vs. some 1930s racist scare mongering term for a substance. If you understand it at this level, I'll have a frank discussion with you - it's not all great, but until then anyone saying there's a "marijuana problem" is just full of themselves the NYT author included.

Agree 100%.

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Here’s a question, what is the clinical dosage of THC to aid sleep for a 57 year old female that is 5’6” and 129lbs.?

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Over 40% of Deceased Drivers in Motor Vehicle Crashes Test Positive for THC, Study Shows

https://www.facs.org/media-center/press-releases/2025/over-40-of-deceased-drivers-in-motor-vehicle-crashes-test-positive-for-thc-study-shows/