Comment on Frog and Toad go to Mars

• Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Belive it or not, alchool is even more normalised (which is arguably worse than many drugs)

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  • TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember an episode aired in Denmark many years ago having a health expert in a news studio talking about drugs and alcohol and ranked them on two parameters, how harmful they were on a personal level and on society level, and alcohol was ranked as the worst of these.

    I think it was based on this study from UK.

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    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Huh, that’s a curious stat - low harm to others for meth

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      • pilferjinx@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The amount of theft meth users do to support their habit has me questioning too. This must be an old graph as it doesn’t have fentanyl.

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    • LucidNightmare@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Cannabis being “more dangerous” for both users and others above ketamine makes me question their reasoning..

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I struggle to take seriously any chart which uses “crack cocaine” unironically

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      • Dewe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Why? I don’t think may people say it with the ‘cocaine’ part but it’s correct, is it not?

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    • Ghoelian@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wait what, people use butane as a drug?

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• thinkingofyouihaveananxietydisorder@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I dunno, but most things are safer than alcohol.

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• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not being normalized, it’s being destigmatized, because it was already exceedingly normal. And it’s obviously not being downplayed, otherwise you wouldn’t have the opportunity to complain about people talking about it so openly.

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They always were this normalized in countercultural space. Like I won’t share acid stories at work, or in front of a cop, but around anyone cool or when my face isn’t associated, IDGAF

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Always has been.

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• okwhateverdude@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ehh, this feels like some kinda survivorship bias / frequency fallacy. I’d argue the people that post and leave comments on social media are already way outside of the norm. It is a power law distribution when it comes to social media participation. Your outliers in this case are very likely outliers in other ways such as in opinions/thinking, risk taking, etc. Drugs really aren’t all that normalized. Sure all my friend circle is full of degenerates, but I am still going to be guarded about my “hobbies” when meeting new people.

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