Your first link's sample pool was high schoolers and young 20 y/os - people who haven't had their brains fully form yet (which happens around 25). Further, it was funded by the Australian department of health, so ehhh who knows what sort of biases exist there.

I can't even open your second link.

Picking sources from a Google search generally doesn't help to back up whatever point you're trying to make fwiw.

Worth noting that cannabis is illegal in Australia, so if anything it could point towards people willing to ignore the law are more likely to X and Y rather than the cannabis being the cause.

But I'm just playing devils advocate here, I doubt daily consumption of any stimulant is great in the long term, but cannabis is probably not worse than anything else really.

Indeed surprisingly, cannabis can have bad effects on human. This has been taken I to account in a French case where murder of an old lady was declared not responsible due to its cannabis consumption.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56929040

But you've not stated any studies backing this up. You're just passing by like a judgmental parent.

What? Of course not! You made a blanket statement, and I simply refuted that by pointing to a large group that doesn't fit with it.

While medical marijuana is weaker than most strains you'd expect to buy, medical users are more likely to be daily users with a regularity most recreational smokers will never hit. In that sense, this is a good example case.

We could probably change the world a whole lot of people who "should" or "shouldn't" do stuff were applying this principle

Someone close to me suffered from this as well. It was pretty hellish. Even when it's not life-threatening, it made it pretty much impossible to go anywhere without weed accessible to keep it from triggering on withdrawal. He finally quit altogether which cured it, but lost 50 pounds in a few months because the CHS symptoms kept persisting for that long after quitting.

We're pretty sure high-potency (legal) dabs were tied to his case, but regardless, it's very troubling to see people in the comments so dismissive on the science of CHS (and how much more common it has become in the past few years in particular).

"This article needs more medical references for verification [...]"

Thanks, I actually hadn't heard of that.

Did you try drinking more water?

Sounds like they're smoking high THC strains, and not for medical reasons. Did you miss that part of the comment?

Ss for the dependency, I am aware of no study that shows lingering effects on anything after two weeks off. And it's much easier to break a cannabis dependency than, say, an alcohol dependency or most others.

That's a fair and interesting point, worth looking at. I personally think that you're more right than wrong, and that while cannabis is great for idea generation, idea execution is somewhat hampered.

But as has been pointed out, people are dumb. 90% of everything is bad.

Remember when some guy came up with a "juice machine" that just squeezes capri-sun style juice pouches, that you got as a subscription service? And people gave him millions of dollars to build and market the thing? And were surprised when it failed spectacularly?

> people who use cannabis on a daily basis will probably tend to produce and pursue bad ideas

I'm convinced people just produce and pursue bad ideas in general. That's why our society functions best by rewarding people with good ideas, and making damn sure everybody knows the core ones, from language to mathematics.

Every idea starts out bad, anyway. That's what design, engineering, and craft are for: Making ideas better until they're useful, beautiful, or good enough to experiment further with.