When I show up to an in-person interview high, in hopes they’ll think that’s my regular behavior:
Sagan, you look high.
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Xanthrax@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I mean… if you are always high then that isn’t wrong is it?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
The one time I ever had a boss/supervisor ask me if I was high on the job, was the one day I showed up sober.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To make an apple pie you gotta first create the universe. Def a stoner thought lol
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget “from scratch” lol
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“Scratch” his itch for some of that killer skunk weed, the devil’s lettuce!
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Although I don’t agree with illegalization of cannabis, I do have to point out that thc content has gotten dangerously high from like a decade ago. Before, it was like 4%, now it’s nearing 19%. So I don’t feel comfortable recommending people to start recreationally smoking marijuana. It leads to serious mental issues and addiction in some cases. What triggers those “some cases” I don’t know but I don’t really want to try and find out.
Des@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
you know you can just smoke/vape 5x less material, right? i’m personally not a fan of the “high THC-A % at all costs” commercial grows and there is a wonderful variety of 3% or less CBD hemp or type 2s with 4%
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
you know you can just smoke/vape 5x less material, right?
this is very true and something i practice myself, using as little as possible
and yet… that’s not how most people use the drug. meth is similar! did you know that if you were to microdose meth you could theoretically use it as an ADHD medication? and yet where are all the microdosers? why does my city have a rampant meth problem?
thankfully cannabis is not nearly as destructive as meth but the parent comment is right: cannabis is becoming more and more problematic in people’s lives due to the high THC content and the cultural rubber banding effect. we’ve gotta reckon with the fact that this miracle drug is still a drug that messes with our NT systems quite a bit
te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And this rising potency is a direct consequence of cannabis being illegal. Producers are breeding stronger and stronger strains with higher THC content and lower CBD to get the most bang for their buck.
If you legalise and regulate it, suddenly that pressure is taken away. Cannabis is produced in consistent and known strengths, distributed in packaging that clearly states the potency so people can make informed choices about what they take.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
And this rising potency is a direct consequence of cannabis being illegal. Producers are breeding stronger and stronger strains with higher THC content and lower CBD to get the most bang for their buck.
this isnt exactly true. (my instinct is to say it’s completely false but i could be wrong!) in many states, it’s medical marijuana that is >20% THC and the cheap public stuff is unregulated below that amount. so you have people getting a bogus medical card, buying up 30% strands, and smoking an ounce a week and going into psychosis. source: drug counselor
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
A consequence of its prohibition. History keeps on repeating itself, yet we never learn.
peteyestee@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The street market and mainstream market both rely on structure.
anonApril2025@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Edible packaging informs of THC content in milligrams.
stray@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
I’m glad stoners are so eco-conscious that they’re not wasting plastic on packaging.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been a huge pothead for decades and I honestly haven’t noticed an increase in content while smoking regular weed. I think that’s the branded stuff that sends you out of orbit.
But if it has changed, that just means I smoke less to get to the high I like by smoking the equivalent of one joint during the day. It’s so much less smoke for my lungs this way, I’m not complaining. Lol
peteyestee@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
When I was a stoner I just reached a point where it didn’t effect me the same way.
Like I would smoke more but it would just be the same level high …but I felt like I needed it any time I didn’t anything. Maybe I didn’t increase my bowl size much but the frequency increased.
8000gnat@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
[deleted]Alteon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I biased against meth, but also afraid of it as well. Doesn’t mean I’m going to go out of my way to try it and assess whether it’s really as bad as they say. I also won’t try out any poison, random pills I find, or anything I have to inject.
Fear is a healthy thing sometimes, mate.
3laws@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
“I call people ‘afraid’ when they point out the current dangerous path of a drug that drives a 45 USD billion industry.”
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I keep hearing that it’s supposed to be much stronger these days, but my experience is just the opposite.
I was a heavy weed smoker in my young years, smoking standard generic pressbud, and it got me nicely stoned. I even had a couple of years where I was growing my own, so I’m very experienced with fresh homegrown weed, which was beautiful. Tasted great, with a very satisfying intense high. Then I quit smoking for a few decades.
I recently started smoking again in my retirement, and was looking forward to trying this stronger weed I was hearing about. I’ve tried legal weed from various states, and none of it gets me nearly as stoned as the cheap pressbud of my youth.
This is just anecdotal, but that’s been my experience.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I also have anecdotal stories of my friend’s life being ruined by weed addiction. We can all have some anecdotal evidence but more scientific evidence is coming out saying that there are higher levels of thc and if younger children smoke weed it will fuck them up. I do agree that using marijuana cautiously and medicinally can help but I can’t possibly recommend smoking for fun.
vga@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Really nice thing for us green dragon enthusiasts though.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sensitivity and fellowship, yet my (former) friend who is a big stoner has gone all-in on conspiracy theories and is championing the Reform party in the UK because Labour are apparently race traitors. Guess weed can’t do all the lifting.
Belgdore@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
If you are as smart and educated as Carl Sagan, I’m sure weed isn’t doing the heavy lifting.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Yeah for people like Sagan, the “serenity” he’s referring to is probably more about quieting his mind.
EstonianGuy@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Maybe weed isn’t relevant in that case, let’s not forget that in the US, weed was promoted by liberals and opposed by the MAGA crowd.
peteyestee@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yeah that would is very naive and privileged.
Retrograde@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Can’t win em all. Also, weed in the UK is rubbish /s
BmeBenji@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Kinda blows my mind that capitalists so desperately want marijuana to be illegal. It’s basically the closest real-world analogue to Brave New World’s Soma.
You want the populace to be complacent? You need to let em blaze it.
sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
This is why I really fear it. Then again it helped me find god. Which i then realized structurally does create the complacent worker through pacifying rather than inciting any real change. So I am back to thinking it is a crutch.
hark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s already plenty out there to keep a population complacent. Also, the prison industrial complex and all that surrounds it is big business.
Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Weed leads to more open mindedness. Why bother using it as an opiate of the masses when you have actual opiates. Push those instead while throwing anyone who has touched weed into the private slave system for superprofits.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Boston City Hall is truly a legendarily gaudy building.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I was thinking what this magnificent brutalist building is
cybervseas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Space Kermit was pretty far out there, man.
smokingpistol@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Boston city hall
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If there is one thing weed is really good at, it is making people okay with being lazy and with their current situation. LSD on the otherhand, can really make you rethink everything.
Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
what’s wrong with being content with your current situation? The productivity drive has been driven into you by capitalism and leads to mass discontentment and suffering. One must detach from endless striving to achieve true enlightenment and happiness, and weed can do that and chill people out and cure them of their “protestant work ethic” which a cultural disease
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
vice.com/…/smoking-weed-more-emphathetic-study/ Fwiw.
My partner has an Rx for his myriad of autoimmune stuff. It really helps him when he isn’t feeling well.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Or its really bad for organizing and actually fighting capitalism because you are sedated and are okay with the exploitation since you can cope with weed after a long day of work. Revolution takes effort and trust me people on weed are not motivated to do shit and are not very social either. Weed is not the solution to fighting capitalism, it helps the capitalist by making people complaicent and actionless. The only real benefit would be a union strike, where you actually should do nothing. But to organize something like that takes effort and time and motivation.
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
If you need marijuana to “produce insight” then that is a problem for you. It is best that we keep dangerous drugs off the street through any means.
Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
dangerous? lmao
you have the worldview of a victorian era spinster
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
Slowing a response system clearly isn’t socially advantageous in any society where people are going to be operating any method of transportation like cars, bikes etc etc. I wouldn’t have a major opposition to it if people didn’t habitually attempt to leave the house while still high. Not to mention the consumption of it exposing others to chemicals through air pollution.
Kuori@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
ah yes the myriad dangers of eating too many cookies and falling asleep watching nature documentaries
this scourge must end!
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
You’re laughing but I’ve been a passive victim of that danger!
I used to live with someone who smoke cannabis on a regular basis. One day I went to bed, and my room-mate stayed on the garden, smoking his joint. When I woke up, the sandwich I prepared for my breakfast was… gone.
Are you getting the full picture? An addict was stealing the sustenance of poor victim, due to his illegal psychoactive substance usage! Cannabis is danger! Don’t cannabis!
Or if you do, prepare the munchies beforehand.[To be fair with him, on the same day he prepared me a way better sandwich as apology. And it isn’t like I went to the uni hungry, at morning I just whipped up some egg farofa and problem solved.]
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
The actual damage that it does do through impaired driving causes actual damage through killing innocent people as well as contributes to laziness.
whiskers165@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Bait used to be believable
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
Oh, everything that doesn’t conform to my world view is just “bait”
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
If you need coffee to have energy in the morning that is a problem for you.
And yes, coffee is a drug and it can be dangerous as well.
As Amaerica showed during the Prohibition and as we see today with opioids, humans will always want to alter their consciouness, not matter the cost. Legalizing drugs would be a net positive.
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
Legalizing it encourages its consumption. There were high rates of people going to the ER with marijuana induced psychosis after legalizing in California (something where people probably would have been brought to the ER either way)
easily3667@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago
Stop your bullshit
Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
Stop being a junkie sympathizer
anonApril2025@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes ANY means. We should nuke the entire planet before we let one dying grandma have a single puff.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did Sagan say that in writing? I know he wrote a few things about his experiences with pot, but those were informal, anecdotal writings, and this sounds much more formal, almost like a public statement meant for publishing, or a speech.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Here is a summary with a link to the PDF: bigthink.com/…/carl-sagan-on-smoking-marijuana/
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theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wish we could smoke with you now and talk about K2-18b.
iamnotafishuq@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You still can. You probably have at least one atom from Carl in you by now.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hope it’s in my weiner
M137@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
K2-18b is a nothing burger. The scientists who made the announcement has done similar before, he seems to really want to be THE person who discovers life on another planet so he skews facts and ignores others facts just for the small chance of being right. Watch this: youtu.be/HYjYvKoQVeM
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
:(
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
hell yea