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This article's kind of a mess.

I agree with the premise (the only success I've ever had consuming THC has been through legal edibles, where I can reliably control the dosage), and I agree - at least in part - with doing what it claims to be the solution (federal descheduling and regulation), but it does a poor job establishing any real connection between the two.

In particular it's not clear to me how federal regulation will make any of this work any better than regulation at the state level.

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I feel like The Atlantic has really declined. Every once in a while they'll put out something interesting, but for the most part their entire model appears to be writing for an aging population who is scared of change in the world.

There was a sudden, sharp decline in quality about a decade ago, at the time when they started putting provocative and inaccurate headlines on the front cover. I think they actually tried harder than many other magazines to adapt to the Internet era, but they bungled the transition. When my subscription ran out, I did not renew.

I one thing that would help at the federal level is a dosage guide, similar to how alcohol works. The drink equivalent is a useful starting point for beer, wine, and spirits. There isn't a "normal" dose, so everyone just asks their friends, and the people they get advice from are generally regular stoners with a much higher tolerance. I've had to argue with someone to convince them that 10mg from an edible is a very high dose for most people. I fortunately convinced the guy who wanted to try for the first time to take 2.5 and just set how that works for the evening

I used to scoff at the 10mg edibles. When I left the US for several months, I had no access to my former daily habit and my tolerance returned to normal. Now I’m back in the US and a 10mg iced tea or gummy is exactly as much as I want. Those prerolls give me anxiety now, and I no longer laugh at recordings of people who have ingested too much and call 911 thinking they’re dying. A bad mj trip is a bad trip indeed.

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