Yeah, anecdotes aren't science.

Especially when we've established how biased society's view of cannabis is.

Caffeine can actually kill you of an overdose. It's not even that rare, medically. Not compared to zero cannabis overdose deaths.

Caffeine can even cause auditory hallucinations on a fairly small dosage. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/caffeine-linked-to-hallucinations-51161154/

https://www.cannabisculture.com/content/2016/04/20/cannabis-vs-caffeine-which-is-safer-a-cup-of-coffee-or-a-puff-of-weed/

CONCLUSION

To conclude, caffeine is clearly more risky, more dangerous, more deadly, more harmful and more costly than cannabis in every category – overdose deaths, overuse deaths, withdrawal symptoms and acute toxicity.

Yes the site is "cannabisculture", but they give sources to actual science outlets and specific publications

And this isn't to say that caffeine is really that dangerous, as it isn't. You can abuse it and get problems, but most don't. It's more addictive and more dangerous and more used, and less worried about. They hypocrisy around coffee is expecially high here in Finland.

It's honestly crazy, I've had to strip down and take a piss in front of a guy who's lips were packed with snus and who was on his 12th cup of strong coffee for the day. As in he had to visually confirm I didn't have any gadgets or anything on my dick.

All this because I got a fine for smoking cannabis. And I had to do that every week, on random days, for six months. Beyond humiliating, especially done by people who were clearly sorely addicted themselves, which I wasn't. (At the time I didn't use caffeine or nicotine — even going so far as to not eat chocolate because of it's caffeine content.)

I don't think I've met anyone whose had a panic attack from drinking coffee

Yes you have. Go to literally any high school, and like a third of the kids are so high on energy drinks that they'd get a low score of mania on clinical tests. Just because you've not associated someone's behaviour with caffeine doesn't mean it didn't cause it as much as cannabis the anxiety attacks of the people you talk of.

And caffeine is actually regulated, formally. Cannabis isn't. So you'd get way stronger strains than what you might if it were legal, ans definitely strains with more CBD, which counteracts the psychotic effects of THC.

You literally couldn't give the equivalent of that in caffeine, because it'd be like 8 large energy drinks and would literally kill a person, whereas with a cannabis overdose, you'll get anxiety instead of a coronary and death. Also, the anxiety is very strongly connected to the legality of cannabis as well. In places whereby cannabis is legal, those sorts of anxiety attacks are far fewer.

Video games are habit forming. Do you think they should have labels on them? Literally anything can be addictive. What causes the "cannabis isn't addictive" myth is that cannabis doesn't cause dependence. As in you could smoke insane amounts for several years daily, then quit cold turkey, ans only suffer a few days of insomnia if that.

With alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, you'll get actual physical withdrawal symptoms. With alcohol so bad that you can die.

https://youtu.be/CfTrdN4S0qI

Here's the actor with a story that includes a bit about coming up with Boss Nass's voice, iirc

One of the mods is an actual Russian troll. Davel@lemmy.ml

Pro-Russian mod who keeps pretending they're not.

"If those kids could read..." meme would be fitting lol

Literally everything you say is the opposite of truth, in classical Russian fashion. :D

Dude, you're the one actually breaking rules and abusing your mod status, and you dare cry "harassment"? So I've made your tummy feel bad by insisting you answer or deny being a direct perpetuator of Russian propaganda — which insists Russia hasn't broken international law. When it clearly has.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

You won't say it, so I will: Russia has broken international law, and anyone who argues they didn't is lying through their teeth and doing so on purpose.

But also, I don’t really care to argue about the veracity of the research presented by the NIH.

Aaand that's sort of my point.

Yes, we should take the harms of any substances seriously, but to be frank, the risks in cannabis are comparable to caffeine, and on an objective level, even smaller. So my deeper point is that people should realise that attitudes can be deeply "programmed" by our environment (and I'm not talking about some malicious and purposeful propaganda, except at the very start of it, after which society just sort of did it's thing), and we should realise to readjust our attitudes towards cannabis to be more like our attitudes towards coffee. For example, it's not often you need to worry about someone's caffeine consumption, but that too is a thing sometimes. The worst example I can think of is a middle-aged woman I worked with who made coffee 4x stronger than anyone else, no-one else would drink it (except for me as well, but with a lot of cream and sugar, and much much less than her). She was so caffeinated, it really did show up on her skin and definitely on her behaviour. She was very, very mildly psychotic, and I use that not in the colloquial, but clinical sense. In the sense that she was very mildly hypomanic and slightly confused at times, making a lot of mistakes in our work, to the point that she was prohibited from taking any of the orders that came from the government, because they didn't want to pay for her constant fuck-ups. Other times it's perhaps a young-ish person who is doing too many energy drinks, or it's my 93-year old grandma who has anxiety and who's hands shake, but who says she won't stop drinking coffee. I'd say my worry for someone using too much cannabis has been much on the same level. It used to be bigger, when I was younger, and somehow believed the studies that only talk of these correlations, until I understood that none of them had any substance, always just "analysing" previous work and when you look into those, they're more questionable than the newer ones.

We've accepted a work culture in which you can make jokes about how you "can't even function before my first cup of coffee", and that's completely fine. But if I say "oh damn, I just can't get to sleep without a good bowl full of indica", a lot of people would instantly consider me an addict of some sort, while the other perhaps a not-so-funny character in an office sitcom.

Thank you for the apology, but there really was no need. Still, very mature of you, rare on online forums. tips fedora

edit Oh here, have an image as well.

Remember when you were talking about whataboutism, trying to discredit my entire comment?

Well, now you're doing what's called "a strawman." At no point have I said or even implied that cannabis is literally harmless.

I've read similar research in the past and went to find it again.

Correction, you've googled similar studies before. I'm pretty sure you haven't read them. There's literally nothing there except sampling bias and weak correlations.

You can do that for literally anything

That's whataboutism

No, it isn't. It's not "what about alcohol" as in "let's not talk about cannabis, but talk about alcohol instead".

It's a "you don't understand the actual risks involved, you don't understand that you're linking things you think they prove something (even without reading them) that confirms the bias that has been programmed into you, so here's some context to make it more understandable"

The context being objective science not having found any causality with mental health disorders and cannabis, and honestly, not even proper correlations.

If this was about the dangers to mental health, then those dangers would be objectified, and alcohol would be considered more dangerous and prohibited. If for some reason the prohibition of cannabis doesn't come from objective science, but pure political shitcanery, then it wouldn't care at all about the objective facts of any of the risks, but it would pretend to — even going so far as to completely make shit up

Which is exactly what is happening here, and you're perpetuating it. Probably without realising it, but you are.

Russia started the war in Ukraine. Supporting Ukraine doesn't mean wishing genocide on Russians.

To avoid any need for Ukraine to attack with these weapons, quickly organise a revolution to take over the government and make peace with Ukraine, with proper reparations for Russian aggression ofc.

The best thing Russia can do to attempt to avoid it is to depose Putler — fast.

"I didn't read that part about Russia being called ridiculous"

That avoidance really is pathological, isn't it?

To recap once more, you're touting Russian propaganda about there not being Russian propaganda, while actually providing evidence of Russian propaganda, while loudly refusing to admit that you have anything to do with Russia. Oh and completely avoiding saying even a single opinion... on ANYTHING.

Let me ask you this, if you truly didn't read my comment, why bother replying? I generally only reply to comments I actually read when I'm on forums, as the point of a forum is to discuss things. Are you admitting that you're using a forum not for discussion, but for ignoring what other people say?

Truly amazing.

"Someone's asking for sources on wild claims, quick, let me google some correlations!"

If you look at the link between alcohol and mental health disorders, cannabis is way safer, and there's not even a direct causal link to what would cause these correlated issues with cannabis use, unlike with alcohol, where there's a clear causality.