Legal weed is wreaking havoc on return to office: ‘all of NY is wake and baking’
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I feel this mindset of spraying substances everyone must endure is a bit like a factory polluting the river, an externality the selfish justify because it benefits them and doesnt have personal cost. But rest assured, others are bearing the cost.
If you think that everyone else should be subjected to your psychoative smoke, then you should have no problem with people disposing of half used medication into the office water cooler. After all it was prescribed by a doctor and is probably safe in small doses. There are no studies showing any negative effects of half a prozac dissolved in a water cooler, so there are probably no negative effects. If everyone disposed of their half used medications into unfiltered drinking water, we can be sure it would cause no problems since my experience of that medication has caused me no problems.
Every high school stoner that's hot boxed a car before class with friends knows firsthand that's not an accurate statement.
But smelled in passing outdoors, sure.
Likewise, what is the rate of CO2 production from an average sedentary human?
On top of that, what is the rate of combustion byproduct production from burning plant matter in a closed passenger compartment?
Once I went to a small comedy club with very close seating. A young kid came in and just stunk to high hell, made it really hard to enjoy the show.
I might have a more sensitive nose than most.
Regular pot smokers absolutely stink.
As to your comment about shit, agreed I likely couldn't smell it from a car distance with windows up. Which tells you how much stronger pot smell actually is since I actually can smell that.
I think it's specifically blunt smokers, but I have no data to support that.
There are several good studies about second hand exposure, like https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25326203/ (and related listed) though not without limitations and not fulfilling all science best practices that come to the same conclusion:
You basically need to be exposed to secondhand smoke in an unventilated room for hours to inhale enough active ingredients to have minor behavioral and cognitive effects from second hand exposure.
Without giving you medical advice, I'd probably consider talking to a psychiatrist if you obviously have considerable discomfort from the smell of cannabis. As someone with PTSD who sometimes got flashbacks and anxiety from smells like charred meat, maybe there is an (un)conscious event in your past or youth that you connect with the smell of cannabis that makes you this uncomfortable.
It's worth checking out, it got significantly better for me from therapy and "unlearning" that connection.
I absolutely don't mind weed, or even cigarettes, but it sucks to be assaulted by the smell all of the time.
Not much that can be done about that aside from making smoking at all illegal and heavily prosecuting people that do it, and even then the people with no fucks to give will still smoke up.
Almost like cannabis use is independent of productivity and the lazy stoner stereotype is a drug war myth, weird huh
1. You've been enrolling in programs with a low barrier to entry
2. You've smoked away whatever you did learn.
I'm glad we have computer experts like you on the internet sharing your expertise on neuropharmacology
If something can have a positive effect it can also have a negative effect. The idea that weed is a net positive with no downsides just isn’t reality.
At just the right level and with the right environment (and jazz fusion album) it's a shortcut to flow state and serendipitous lateral thinking, but overshoot that and you'll just be forgetting what local variables are in scope..
I was a stoner for all my 20s. A toke and the hardest thing I could do was play video games and eat junk food. Meanwhile, my stoner mates would work on their side projects until deep into the night.
We're not all cut from the same cloth.
Everyone has different levels of intrinsic motivation.