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Unsurprising from a qualitative, anecdotal perspective: heavy delta 9 THC users seem to develop "tweaker" psychological and personality changes. Just a little seems to result in chiller people. Moderation in all things except moderation. is often a fail-safe strategy.

A related issue is pervasive discounting of personal safety with a pattern of unsafe strategies like taking drugs of unknown quality and unknown strength, and smoking burning substances without filtration under the "it's natural" fallacy.

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> A related issue is pervasive discounting of personal safety with a pattern of unsafe strategies like taking drugs of unknown quality and unknown strength

I don't think thats necessarily a quality of the drug itself. Most weed smokers of my generation were heavily saturated in a narrative that all drugs are bad and weed is horrifically addictive and on the same level as heroin. Someone who then smokes weed and realizes it was a lie would very plausibly start to doubt the danger and risk factor of harder drugs.

As with a lot of things, a bit of transparency and honesty goes a long way when it comes to harm reduction.

Can you be specific about those tweaker psychological and personality changes? I’m someone who’s never dealt with weed smokers, as it’s non-existent in my circles.

He is referencing delta 9, which has a lot of the same similarities as what we refer to colloquially as "weed".

Delta 9 is much different physiologically and psychologically and can induce this abhorrent behaviors.

Also in the mid to early 2000's over 50.3% of US adults (Pew Research Center) had tried cannabis, I can assure you someone in your "circle" has smoked in their life.

IME: Increase in artist-like traits like creativity, magical beliefs, and odd behavior. I've seen a couple of Youtubers like this and remember some heavy weed smokers in undergrad who started to go off the rails.

Or people who's minds are swirving more and more use weed as a guard rail which eventually can't contain the ever growing mental swings.

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