People really underestimate the long term negative effects of weed smoking. It’s not the laziness and lack of motivation, but the slow drift into what can only be described as psychosis.
A lot of people I knew who were fun and decent people in their 20s who started a weed habit slowly drifted into mental heath disasters by their 30s.
Anxiety, paranoia, mood swings, isolation etc. All while insisting weed is good for them and often talking how it improved their life rather than drinking despite all the contrary evidence.
Smoking weed is not worth it and is the biggest waste of time, money, and life one can possibly engage in 2026.
Factors you might not have considered. Marijuana use puts a gun owner/buyer in the same category with Hunter Biden, you have committed a felony by admitting to it- so you're not going to admit to it. Not to anyone, under any circumstances- unless you're an "scofflaw". Another factor is marijuana use by children, especially the high-powered stuff common today. I'm 78, I smoked my first pot in college. I enjoyed the effect but I didn't like the interference with memory- so I never became a regular user. They used to say "If you can remember the 1960s, you weren't there." Once a year, maybe- and I remember the 1960s. If I was passed a joint in an appropriate social circumstance, I might toke on it- but it was never a regular part of my life. Soon after marijuana use became ubiquitous in high schools. Vaping made it undetectable. At the same time we had the "great dumbing down" of education, especially in math. I have to believe those two things are related. You can't smoke pot and do math at the same time. I also blame it on "The Great Feminization" (google it) because women love drugs. All drugs, especially opioids and marijuana. Give a woman power (as a teacher, especially) and you have a "self-driving school bus", the inmates running the asylum. If you have impaired memory, how can you learn? IQ of college grads have gone from 120 to 103 in the same time period. Few college grads (mostly women, today) know what the Pythagorean Theorem is, let alone how to use it. Keep up the good work!
I know you favor marijuana's criminal prohibition, which is why I am asking about tobacco. I did not see any mention in your prior post about supporting the enactment of federal and state laws to criminal prohibit all tobacco possession/production. That's why I asked if that is your policy position/preference in light of this post's claim that "Marijuana Is More Like Cigarettes Than Like Alcohol." (Of course, there are many more tobacco products that just cigarettes, but there are many more marijuana products than joints.)
But aren't roughly 90% of the non-THC vape products drawing nicotine from the (now-legal) tobacco plant? If that plant is criminally prohibited, most of current vaping practices also become criminal. (I assume you favor the prohibition of THC vapes as part of your marijuana prohibition stance.)
You don't need to prohibit the tobacco plant to prohibit cigarettes! Much as you don't have to ban the poppy plant to ban heroin. You can ban at point of sale (as jurisdictions in MA have already done), or you can ban manufacture of products containing anything other than nicotine.
Quite true, for marijuana products as well. So are you okay with legalizing marijuana home grow and even gifting and perhaps farmer market sales? Is your chief concern commercialization and not legalization?
I think everyone supports some forms of criminal prohibition (eg sales to kids) for all sorts of potentially harmful products. But I have had the sense you support the blanket marijuana prohibitions that pre-date modern state reforms. But hearing your tobacco legalization nuance now, perhaps you support comparable marijuana nuance as well.
I look forward to seeing your book and hearing where some of my (unhealthy?) market-driven addictions — to my phone, donuts, fries, football, golf, formerly video games — fit into the picture.
People really underestimate the long term negative effects of weed smoking. It’s not the laziness and lack of motivation, but the slow drift into what can only be described as psychosis.
A lot of people I knew who were fun and decent people in their 20s who started a weed habit slowly drifted into mental heath disasters by their 30s.
Anxiety, paranoia, mood swings, isolation etc. All while insisting weed is good for them and often talking how it improved their life rather than drinking despite all the contrary evidence.
Smoking weed is not worth it and is the biggest waste of time, money, and life one can possibly engage in 2026.
Factors you might not have considered. Marijuana use puts a gun owner/buyer in the same category with Hunter Biden, you have committed a felony by admitting to it- so you're not going to admit to it. Not to anyone, under any circumstances- unless you're an "scofflaw". Another factor is marijuana use by children, especially the high-powered stuff common today. I'm 78, I smoked my first pot in college. I enjoyed the effect but I didn't like the interference with memory- so I never became a regular user. They used to say "If you can remember the 1960s, you weren't there." Once a year, maybe- and I remember the 1960s. If I was passed a joint in an appropriate social circumstance, I might toke on it- but it was never a regular part of my life. Soon after marijuana use became ubiquitous in high schools. Vaping made it undetectable. At the same time we had the "great dumbing down" of education, especially in math. I have to believe those two things are related. You can't smoke pot and do math at the same time. I also blame it on "The Great Feminization" (google it) because women love drugs. All drugs, especially opioids and marijuana. Give a woman power (as a teacher, especially) and you have a "self-driving school bus", the inmates running the asylum. If you have impaired memory, how can you learn? IQ of college grads have gone from 120 to 103 in the same time period. Few college grads (mostly women, today) know what the Pythagorean Theorem is, let alone how to use it. Keep up the good work!
This is the guy who wrote an article in The Atlantic defending Flock cameras
So do you favor state and federal criminalization of all tobacco products?
you must be new here.
https://thecausalfallacy.com/p/how-i-changed-my-mind-about-marijuana
I know you favor marijuana's criminal prohibition, which is why I am asking about tobacco. I did not see any mention in your prior post about supporting the enactment of federal and state laws to criminal prohibit all tobacco possession/production. That's why I asked if that is your policy position/preference in light of this post's claim that "Marijuana Is More Like Cigarettes Than Like Alcohol." (Of course, there are many more tobacco products that just cigarettes, but there are many more marijuana products than joints.)
Oh, sorry! I misread your post. My fault.
Yeah, I would be fine banning tobacco, especially given that we have a safer alternative in the form of vaping.
But aren't roughly 90% of the non-THC vape products drawing nicotine from the (now-legal) tobacco plant? If that plant is criminally prohibited, most of current vaping practices also become criminal. (I assume you favor the prohibition of THC vapes as part of your marijuana prohibition stance.)
You don't need to prohibit the tobacco plant to prohibit cigarettes! Much as you don't have to ban the poppy plant to ban heroin. You can ban at point of sale (as jurisdictions in MA have already done), or you can ban manufacture of products containing anything other than nicotine.
Quite true, for marijuana products as well. So are you okay with legalizing marijuana home grow and even gifting and perhaps farmer market sales? Is your chief concern commercialization and not legalization?
I think everyone supports some forms of criminal prohibition (eg sales to kids) for all sorts of potentially harmful products. But I have had the sense you support the blanket marijuana prohibitions that pre-date modern state reforms. But hearing your tobacco legalization nuance now, perhaps you support comparable marijuana nuance as well.
I look forward to seeing your book and hearing where some of my (unhealthy?) market-driven addictions — to my phone, donuts, fries, football, golf, formerly video games — fit into the picture.