America has a marijuana problem

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Cannabis kills.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0379073814000541

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Anonymous wrote:I just saw this comment posted and completely agree with it:

One of the things that makes weed so dangerous is that its users have a totally fanciful, almost supernatural faith in the substance itself. Alcohol can be dangerous, but everyone who drinks alcohol knows that and will admit it. You'll never hear anyone argue that there are no dangers or downsides to alcohol. But most pot smokers honestly believe, or have convinced themselves, that there is no downside to their drug of choice. You can get high every day for 50 years and nothing bad will happen. There are no tradeoffs, they insist. Literally all of the data, all of the research, all of our experience, not to mention basic common sense, conflicts with this belief, but they don't care. The average pot smoker is much more likely to smoke in excess precisely because the whole mythology of pot is that there is no such thing as excess.

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Anonymous wrote:One of the main points in the article is the total lack of regulation. We regulate alcohol but not marijuana. As a regular user of gummies due to sleep issues associated with chronic pain, I can tell you there isn’t comprehensive quality control over the content of products. I regularly use different brands and products because it’s very hard for the dispensaries to secure a stable supply from one company (probably due to the soaring demand). Products may say they have the same THC content, but I can definitely tell that they do not. Imagine if that were the case with alcohol.

It also concerns me that I often smell it in car parks which clearly means that there are people who are driving after smoking. We don’t accept people taking excessive quantities of alcohol and driving and we shouldn’t with marijuana either.

Are you under the impression that people are allowed to drive high? And that they do not get arrested?

Is there a sobriety test that indicates impairment for cannabis?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the main points in the article is the total lack of regulation. We regulate alcohol but not marijuana. As a regular user of gummies due to sleep issues associated with chronic pain, I can tell you there isn’t comprehensive quality control over the content of products. I regularly use different brands and products because it’s very hard for the dispensaries to secure a stable supply from one company (probably due to the soaring demand). Products may say they have the same THC content, but I can definitely tell that they do not. Imagine if that were the case with alcohol.

It also concerns me that I often smell it in car parks which clearly means that there are people who are driving after smoking. We don’t accept people taking excessive quantities of alcohol and driving and we shouldn’t with marijuana either.

The argument against regulation is that it would increase prices for something that is practically harmless. "Reseachers" complain that they can't study marijuana because of its illegal status. We need to legalize it so we can study it.

[Anonymous]

Lexapro, Adderall, Statin, GLP-1, Metformin, HRT, all seem to be okay but marijuana is where we draw the line?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lexapro, Adderall, Statin, GLP-1, Metformin, HRT, all seem to be okay but marijuana is where we draw the line?

I drive high on statins all the time!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lexapro, Adderall, Statin, GLP-1, Metformin, HRT, all seem to be okay but marijuana is where we draw the line?

I drive high on statins all the time!

I’m high on estrogen right now.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the main points in the article is the total lack of regulation. We regulate alcohol but not marijuana. As a regular user of gummies due to sleep issues associated with chronic pain, I can tell you there isn’t comprehensive quality control over the content of products. I regularly use different brands and products because it’s very hard for the dispensaries to secure a stable supply from one company (probably due to the soaring demand). Products may say they have the same THC content, but I can definitely tell that they do not. Imagine if that were the case with alcohol.

It also concerns me that I often smell it in car parks which clearly means that there are people who are driving after smoking. We don’t accept people taking excessive quantities of alcohol and driving and we shouldn’t with marijuana either.

Are you under the impression that people are allowed to drive high? And that they do not get arrested?

‘The issue of marijuana-impaired driving has not been an easy one to tackle because, unlike alcohol, which has well-established thresholds of impairment, the metrics for marijuana’s effects on driving remain rather elusive.

“We don’t have that kind of deep knowledge right now and it’s not because of lack of trying,” says Dr. Guohua Li, professor of epidemiology and the founding director of the Center for Injury Science and Prevention at Columbia University.

“Marijuana is very different from alcohol in important ways,” says Li, who has published several studies on marijuana and driving. “And one of them is that the effect of marijuana on cognitive functions and behaviors is much more unpredictable than alcohol. In general, alcohol is a depressant drug. But marijuana could act on the central nervous system as a depressant, a stimulant, and a hallucinogenic substance.”

Efforts to create a breathalyzer to measure the level of THC, the main psychoactive compound found in the marijuana plant, have largely failed, because “the THC molecule is much bigger than ethanol and its behavior after ingestion is very different from alcohol,” Li says.’

https://journalistsresource.org/health/marijuana-driving/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the main points in the article is the total lack of regulation. We regulate alcohol but not marijuana. As a regular user of gummies due to sleep issues associated with chronic pain, I can tell you there isn’t comprehensive quality control over the content of products. I regularly use different brands and products because it’s very hard for the dispensaries to secure a stable supply from one company (probably due to the soaring demand). Products may say they have the same THC content, but I can definitely tell that they do not. Imagine if that were the case with alcohol.

It also concerns me that I often smell it in car parks which clearly means that there are people who are driving after smoking. We don’t accept people taking excessive quantities of alcohol and driving and we shouldn’t with marijuana either.

Are you under the impression that people are allowed to drive high? And that they do not get arrested?

Is there a sobriety test that indicates impairment for cannabis?

Absolutely. Not a brethaliser but they do have field tests and can determine if you’re under the influence. Enough to arrest you and do a blood test in jail. Do you know anything about policing?

[Anonymous]

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.

I said the same thing in one of those threads. It’s amazing to me that these PPs will never admit that canabis is a lot safer and less addictive than a lot of the prescription medications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One of the main points in the article is the total lack of regulation. We regulate alcohol but not marijuana. As a regular user of gummies due to sleep issues associated with chronic pain, I can tell you there isn’t comprehensive quality control over the content of products. I regularly use different brands and products because it’s very hard for the dispensaries to secure a stable supply from one company (probably due to the soaring demand). Products may say they have the same THC content, but I can definitely tell that they do not. Imagine if that were the case with alcohol.

It also concerns me that I often smell it in car parks which clearly means that there are people who are driving after smoking. We don’t accept people taking excessive quantities of alcohol and driving and we shouldn’t with marijuana either.

Are you under the impression that people are allowed to drive high? And that they do not get arrested?

‘The issue of marijuana-impaired driving has not been an easy one to tackle because, unlike alcohol, which has well-established thresholds of impairment, the metrics for marijuana’s effects on driving remain rather elusive.

“We don’t have that kind of deep knowledge right now and it’s not because of lack of trying,” says Dr. Guohua Li, professor of epidemiology and the founding director of the Center for Injury Science and Prevention at Columbia University.

“Marijuana is very different from alcohol in important ways,” says Li, who has published several studies on marijuana and driving. “And one of them is that the effect of marijuana on cognitive functions and behaviors is much more unpredictable than alcohol. In general, alcohol is a depressant drug. But marijuana could act on the central nervous system as a depressant, a stimulant, and a hallucinogenic substance.”

Efforts to create a breathalyzer to measure the level of THC, the main psychoactive compound found in the marijuana plant, have largely failed, because “the THC molecule is much bigger than ethanol and its behavior after ingestion is very different from alcohol,” Li says.’

https://journalistsresource.org/health/marijuana-driving/

Mind boggling that Marijuana would be legalize before that could be determined.

[Anonymous]

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.

Great for you, but this has nothing to do with the article or the need for regulation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the NYT right?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/regulate-legalized-marijuana.html

Have you seen evidence of this in your kids, their friends or family?

No, but every day while driving, the smell of skunk weed is coming from another car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just saw this comment posted and completely agree with it:

One of the things that makes weed so dangerous is that its users have a totally fanciful, almost supernatural faith in the substance itself. Alcohol can be dangerous, but everyone who drinks alcohol knows that and will admit it. You'll never hear anyone argue that there are no dangers or downsides to alcohol. But most pot smokers honestly believe, or have convinced themselves, that there is no downside to their drug of choice. You can get high every day for 50 years and nothing bad will happen. There are no tradeoffs, they insist. Literally all of the data, all of the research, all of our experience, not to mention basic common sense, conflicts with this belief, but they don't care. The average pot smoker is much more likely to smoke in excess precisely because the whole mythology of pot is that there is no such thing as excess.

Exactly this.