First of all this isn't an anti-weed post, I use weed regularly and enjoy it. What I'm arguing against is occasional use, once a month or less, at that level your tolerance usually resets between uses. The thing they don't tell you in health class is tolerance goes both ways, you become tolerant to both the positives and negatives of use. For weed the negative im referring to is anxiety, though short term memory loss also goes down with more regular use. Whenever I take a break and then start doing weed again I get way too in my head and anxious which usually goes away after a couple sessions. This has also become worse with modern legal strains that have become way too concentrated. Dispensary edibles are a bit better since you can dose them easier but even then the longer the time in between uses the more likely you'll forget what's a good dosage. I see this a lot with friends who don't regularly do weed and they smoke with me, get way too high, have a bad time and then won't do it again for a while and repeat the cycle. So for those type of people I'd recommend not doing weed at all or doing it more regularly so you can keep your tolerance up. No shame in picking either but the middle ground kinda sucks.
EDIT: a lot of people are saying get lower percentage strains or higher CBD ones, to that I'd say I wish I could. I always try and get the lowest percentage stuff I can find at the dispensary and that stuffs still usually in the high teens percent THC with less then a percent CBD here in SF. So I guess part of this is just a rant on how stupidly concentrated modern weed is and how it leaves little margin for error.
Can't people just go without recreational drugs? I realize that marijuana is significantly better than alcohol but addictions can ruin lives including those of people around you.
I don't think it's reasonable to call someone an addict if they're an occasional user at the level OP is discussing.
My issue is with promoting regular use of recreational drugs.
I didn't call OP an addict, I was merely stating that addictions have negative effects.
OP suggested two alternatives: complete abstinence, or more frequent use, and they were specifically addressing the demographic of "occasional users who are turned off because of their sensitization to the negative effects"
To me that is a pretty reasonable take and doesn't seem to be promoting regular use as much as it is troubleshooting a particular problem. But of course if it came across differently to you that is fine.
Sure, they can.
Weed is hailed as so safe, but the stuff today is more powerful than hashish was when I was a kid. It's powerful enough that I've seen people go through some pretty serious withdrawals when they quit.
This is anecdotal, but I know a girl that if she gets sober she starts shaking and getting very uncomfortable.
She has a psychological addiction to weed and for the most part she's fine it's just it sucks that she has to spend money to feel normal now or she has to go through a good long period of feeling really really shitty to get back to normal.
I've seen people get headaches, sweat, and become extremely irritable when they stop smoking.
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted, it’s true. Weed withdrawal can be awful.
Because people don't want to acknowledge it.
Because headaches, sweating, and irritability are inconvenient, unpleasant certainly, but not unsafe as their original comment implies
The most unsafe part of smoking weed is the actual smoking part of it. Or if you're a dumbass and do something risky while you're stoned.