Equating lead poisoning to marijuana use. Top comment on the thread.
Hackernews on weed: :wojak-nooo:
Hackernews on microdosing LSD or the latest analog: :so-true:
Definitely not marijuana, but also definitely microplastics :yea:
also, lmfao at "half" of americans
Pretty sure the lead content of the atmosphere went up, it wasn't because of people eating the paint
No you don't understand. Our generation will have a similar huge reckoning with lead.
For a website called "Hacker News" they all seem to be a bunch of bootlicking squares lmao
Who could have foreseen that a hobby attracting primarily antisocial well-off white men would be inundated with chuds
Definitely some of that, but also the venture capital recuperation of a subversive counterculture. The phrase "hacker" evolved from practical jokers, to people with a knack to solve problems in novel ways, to internet looters, to the plumbers of the national security panopticon. It doesn't help that the culture took shape at M.I.T. It might not be Harvard, but it is a den of privilege and it's straight down the road.
Speaking from personal experience; most people who call themselves hackers belong there.
Nice.
"The scientists also found that 90% of children born in the U.S. between 1950 and 1981 had blood lead levels higher than the CDC threshold. And the researchers found a significant impact on cognitive development"
They're definitely not equal but honestly I do think that the idea that marijuana becoming more available might lead to worse mental health outcomes for people is at least credible.
Not being thrown in jail has done wonders for my mental health though
Agree, I'm a big weed guy but the absolute explosion in frequency and amount of weed smoked that's considered normal today vs 10 years ago gives me a lot of pause.
It turns out modern edibles are actually really fucking potent, who knew
10 years ago I'd be the only person walking around my neighborhood at night with a joint. now i feel like I'm the only one who isn't lmao. I quit a couple years back but I see and smell it everywhere I walk at night
Entire parking lot smells like weed every break at work. I'm not saying all like 400 on shift smoke but it's for sure a majority.
I think adults will be fine, but it's probably not great to flood a developing brain with any chemicals it doesn't need. Don't do drugs, kids!
possibly, but lead is orders of magnitude worse and shouldn't be equated in any way to a drop in IQ by marijuana.
IQ isn't real and that hackernews is obviously a jackass. the real generation-scale rot infesting the minds of todays youth is the internet. yes i'm serious, no i will not elaborate at this time.
Internet is good, liberalism is bad. I probably wouldn't be a commie today without it.
Okay so obviously this is wrong and belies a massive ignorance of pharmacology.
But I think that if we really twist what they're saying, they might have a point.
I use a lot of medical cannabis and I obsessively check certificates of analysis from testing facilities in my state and there are a few I won't trust. One such facility was just fined for intentionally inflating THC concentration test results. It's known that there is a lot of lead in some soils, and I would be very unsurprised if an unscrupulous or dishonest grower (and in my state there are many brands I avoid for this reason) discovered lead contamination and paid one of the more bribable labs to fudge the results so that lead content in the plant appeared below threshold (1ppm, which is pretty strict, but imo it should be required to be below limit of detection).
What I'm trying to say is that I would not be surprised if a significant amount of flower on the legal markets today contained too much lead, and I would be even less surprised if the coils on many disposable cartridges were offgassing copper, lead, chrome, etc The paper is a bit old and refers to ecigarette coils, but my suspicion that local cannabis producers were just ordering the cheapest coils they could find online is what convinced me to stop using those damn cartridges, and what do you know, when I switched to only flower and dabs on quartz, the weird tight pains in my chest disappeared (and have not returned in the 3 years since).
I'm on the same page when it comes to the cartridges, I don't trust them. Three years ago my state's medical cannabis department sent an advisory about lead in cartridge coils leeching over time, and noted that several medical markets in nearby states had identified potentially dangerous carts. I try to buy cannabis and hemp grown without pesticides and I exclusively dry herb vape. I also make an effort to balance my THC consumption with CBD as the latter has been shown to be neuroprotective against some deleterious effects of the former.
I also make an effort to balance my THC consumption with CBD as the latter has been shown to be neuroprotective against some deleterious effects of the former.
I was doing this for a little bit, but I use cannabis to treat my adhd and inability to consistently dose CBD across different strains was stochastically urning me into a zombie.
It's SO FUCKING HARD to find good organic weed where I am. I cannot wait until I can start growing again.
There are two types of hacker. The kind who can take out the pentagon as a side project but choose not to because its beneath them, and people who just download scripts, steal steam accounts, invest in crypto and frequent countless Nazi forums on their main Email account because OPSec doesn't apply to them. Guess which one they're referring to.
Third kind is speculatively buying graphics cards while writing unreliable tools for the pentagon.
but if you're getting technical on the phrase hacker, the first and third is a cracker, the second is a type of hacker, the other kind of hacker is like lady ada making neat open source hardware for millions.
We can't call them crackers anymore because twitch and twitter think it's a slur.
here's all the programming news you will ever need:
computers were a mistake :monke-beepboop:
but computers make me big salary and generate endorphins in my brain
Doesn't marijuana affect the development of the brain at ages below 20? That's what I heard, at least.
Oh good, I started at 19 so I'm only one year stupider than I could have been
If we learned anything from Eyes Wide Shut, it's that this pot is making you more aggressive
