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[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 82 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

“Chronic cannabis use makes you stupid, to put it bluntly, and can also cause psychosis,” Thomas Fischbach, president of a German federation of doctors for children and adolescents (BVKJ), told the Die Welt newspaper.

Meanwhile, at Oktoberfest...

The drunken debauchery often leads to fights, aggressive behavior, and bierleichen — so-called "beer corpses," which is what locals call the many passed out drunks lying on the hill behind the tents.

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago

Cannabis bad doesn't mean alcohol good

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No, but here he is trotting out the line about Schizophrenia, which is a real risk, but is dwarfed in its societal impact by the downsides of alcohol. I don't expect he's said anything at all publicly about the impacts of that though, which would suggest that he's the talking head that the German press always contact for a negative comment about cannabis every time it hits the news. Especially as this is reported by Die Welt which is an Axel Springer publication.

[-] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago

Funnily (well, not really, but what can we do but laugh), the other cited source, businesses insider, is also an Axel Springer publication. As is Politico, Morning Brew, and some other stuff.

So they aren't just a German problem anymore, they're now everyone's problem.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Like we do any better without Springer in the Anglosphere. If it's not Murdoch metastasising everywhere it's one of the Bannon/Koch Foundation appendages.

[-] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah. I've gotten so tired of checking all the sources in algorithmic news feeds that I went back to an rss feed of news agencies, and trusted papers. Media landscape kinda sucks.

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