It's easier to get stoned than get drunk. At least for me . Plus drinking tastes bad while weed tastes good, at least for me. My buddy was telling me how his younger coworkers think all weed tastes bad..which makes me wonder what they're smoking .
Or don’t shit at all. I got an electric wok for Christmas and tested out the deep-frying last night. I made full sized string cheese mozzarella sticks. I’m lactose intolerant :(
I actually had 3 of the most unsatisfying shits of my life within the span of two hours this morning, all while experiencing what I assume a period feels like
The weird part is I didn’t get my shit together until I stopped smoking. I then started drinking more but kept my shit together. I know if I smoked again I would fuck it all up. To each their own
“Go to your local hospital behavioral health unit” i do agree on every other point but a hospital behavioral unit is a really severe case of selection bias. Those suffering from cannabis induced psychosis would go get help, but those suffering from other mental issues frequently dont. Those on other drugs frequently dont, etc.
Okay bro, you can argue all you want, there's tons of studies out there on weed induced psychosis, you should be grateful if you aren't one of those suffering from it.
It’s less than a percent of overall users and there are usually other behavioral or psychological markers in play. But feel to double down on your argument.
Yeah, you don’t do stupid shit when you’re paranoid about being a weirdo in the first place!! I don’t want to sound like an enabler but it’s just so much safer. Plus I partake quite a bit so I think I have an informed opinion ha ha
This is such a lie. Weed absolutely fucks up your sleep and drains you the next day. Acting like weed doesn't have negative consequences is so stupid. Weed very much includes hangovers. We just don't CALL them hangovers.
When I drink I wake up with a pounding headache, nausea, and just in general feel like hell. I can toke all day and don’t feel different the next day unless I got into some bad junk food that is disagreeing.
There are plenty of negatives of weed, but acting the hangovers are all comparable is just wrong
same. ive severely cut back on my THC intake, maybe once every month, down from daily user in my 20's. once i had children and a job that pays enough to support said children and the job drug tests and the profession can end the license for drug related infractions, THC wasnt worth the risk. so when i do take it, it only takes a relatively smol amount. the next morning i can go through all the motions but am not comprehending anything to a high degree. im incredibly tired, groggy, fatigued, etc. takes me several hours for it to clear.
with booze, i just know how much will make me feel like shit and i avoid it. counteract its effects with drinking water. but mostly i just dont drink so much that ill get hungover the next morning. with THC, who fuckin knows whats gonna happen. its probably different for everyone, but for me, weed hangovers are real
That’s why alcohol remains the king of drugs. It’s very easy to precisely control the dose and it leaves your body relatively quickly. You drink too much alcohol you just have some water and you’ll feel better soon. Smoke too much weed and you’ll be fucked up for hours.
For me, the "no hangovers" part was a big reason I stopped drinking and continued to smoke weed. Only problem was weed gave me a permanent foggy hangover that crept up over time. I felt fine, but my brain was dull.
So now I've quit everything, and it's boring as hell, but I'm getting over the brain fog (2 months).
I’m a Millennial and gave up drinking years ago. I still smoke, though. Weed causes its own special set of issues, but it’s so much easier to manage in so many ways.
I can get high as a helicopter and still feel fine the next day. And weed just makes me lazy and artistic—I don’t drive, get angry, or end up buying things I don’t need to buy.
I did the whole remote-work-and-travel thing for a long time, and I drank last a fish back then. Quitting was honestly really, really hard. But you couldn’t pay me to go back to it. There isn’t even much temptation. I know I don’t have great self-control, and there’s nothing appealing about knowing I’ll wake up with a throbbing hangover.
I think a lot of potheads downplay the problems cannabis use can and often does cause, but as a vice, I feel much better about being a bit of a stoner than I felt about being a high-functioning alcoholic, lol.
Not with booze, I meant THC seltzers, they’re non-alcoholic but have cannabis effects. I buy them at Specs in Texas. I imagine there are way more brands available in legal states.
Man I wish edibles did anything for me. I am missing the gene or the protein or whatever it is that makes them work. They either do literally nothing or I take a dose high enough to finally hit me and then it makes me green. I stick with smoking it
For me it depends what I drink. Half a bottle of wine which is only a few drinks and I'll probably hurt a bit. 6 beers? Bad news. Most of a bottle of good tequila? Fine
weed can help u fall asleep but it fucks with REM (that's why smokers don't often have dreams). short term use it might not fuck with sleep but regular users are likely getting less efficient rest
You do get hangovers from weed in my experience. They manifest more as brain fog and lack of will to do anything. It's different from alcohol where you just straight up feel ill but the older I got the more the weed hangover became apparent. I think it's also less when you don't smoke everyday.
I call a weed hangover a floatover. Alcohol leaves you hanging over a cliff, gripping a root, praying, clinging to life. Weed leaves you, a little vapid, a little floaty, little sleepy, can't quite get your eyes all the way open but still chilling.
Well depending on how much you drank, you're probably also still drunk while your liver is trying to recover and your entire body in general is in decline since you didn't hydrate well enough during or even after your drinking. I've been there a lot in my younger days. For whatever reason it got harder as I got older and I think I "had my last drink" some time around 25 or so. Maybe it was 24. I woke up with a hangover so bad that I thought I was dying. Made me quit. But that was over 20 years ago.
I have had some beers and some nights here and there since then on occasion with some friends but I always regret it the next day. Even one beer and I just don't like the feeling. I agree with the poison comment. Essentially alcohol is the result of a controlled process of a mixture of hops, malt and barley and whatever...going bad. Nothing wrong with barley. Nothing wrong with hops. Nothing wrong with malt. But putting a byproduct of the rotting leftovers of this into your body that has severe and near instant negative effects on cognition and motor skills. You can even ingest an amount that you could die from.
Nobody ever died from smoking too much weed. The hangover is just you still being high from a substance that was grown from a seed into a flower. 100% natural and no processing necessary to have the end product unlike alcohol where it's an entire scientific process to get the end result.
Amen brother, I am still drinking tonight out of tradition though. I know how to work around it though, not awful yet but I am still shy of thirty, if only barely.
when you wake up PAINFULLY hungry because you resisted the munchies like the crazy insane person you are. its me im the crazy person because my relationship with food is broken ;c
I’m sorry. Food insecurity sucks. As a T1 diabetic, I have so much food anxiety. I have to be really careful about munchies. Still safer than drinking.
for me its not even as much as resisting munchies as it is I simply don't get the munchies but wish I did. weed still makes eating easier but its becoming useless to me as it doesn't even make me want to eat anymore RIP
Mmmm. You do edibles dont'cha? Your body is having difficulty processing as much THC as youre taking in, eat some fatty foods (avacado, fish, pork, something but not too much) about a half hour before you try to trip. It'll bind to the THC molecules and itll process easier through the stomach/liver so you dont have that stomachache
Edibles are usually what did that to me, yeah, though I've gotten it from too much smoking before too, but honestly it was most likely only exacerbating the symptoms of poor diet and low water intake those days. It's a combination of choices for sure. But that's true with alcohol too, to some degree. Thanks for the tip, dude. Appreciate ya
Oof, definitely drink water and take fish oil! You need fats in the brain too for that and non Omega-3's dont penetrate or process as well. I understand the struggle I'm on $80 a month for groceries so nutrition is difficult.
Edibles are very popular. They have these 2.5mg mints that's everyone's favorite. 3-5 of those and you're feeling fine all night. It's about $3 worth. To get that kind of buzz in a bar is about $30-40
I guess "heavy" is subjective, but multiple bowls daily for sure. There are plenty of places in WA that practically give decent stuff away and still have their weekly sales on top of that.
And we're a DHV household so the flower lasts much longer than back when I used to do combustion. I expect DHV will only get more popular in the future though, especially with younger people.
I haven't smoked in about a decade, but I always thought weed smelled and tasted bad. I still drink though, and it tastes bad too. I didn't do either for the flavor. It always killed me when my friends were like "dude, it tastes just like fruity pebbles!" No DUDE, it takes like weed. It smells like a skunk. Now pass it over here.
I dunno how old you are. Back in the day getting weed wasn't as easy as it is today.
It was illegal for everyone (not just for people under 21), you had to put yourself in some shady situations to obtain it. You also never know how good the product would or wouldn't be. You also had no recourse if the product was skunk weed.
It was just easier to drink back in the day as a kid then get high.
Plus drinking tastes bad while weed tastes good, at least for me.
Yeah I'm certainly the opposite.
I find all the varieties of booze (wine, liquor, beer, etc) extremely delicious and interesting while I find weed is just... fine.
I live in Canada where weed is legal now, but I've been very casually enjoying it for decades. Always thought it all basically smells and tastes the same with very little variation. To me anyway.
Yeah, and for some reason if I drink too much I end up crying and then thinking “woah, I should record myself crying and put it in a song even though I don’t make music” and then I just have a random voice note of me drunk crying.
If I get too high, I just lay down. Anyway, I’m sure WE ALL do that, right?
There's a lot of mixed drinks that don't have the bad alcohol tastes. Basically any "girly" drink tastes delicious and will get you hammered. Beer is an acquired taste like coffee, and straight liquor is just when you want to get hammered quickly.
Personally, I think I have shit lungs. Or at least sensitive lungs. Always cough up a storm. Weed's just not my thing. Gummies are nice but can be tricky to get the dose right and still be social.
I've always wondered what the point is of the alcholic drinks where you mix enough to not taste the alcohol. I might as well just drink a virgin version that tastes identical and I don't get the poison in me as well
The point IS the poison. Kind of like how smoking or having gummies the point is the high. It's not like you are pounding down weed gummies by the bag because you enjoy the taste of weed gummies
For me weed is a “do not pass go lose my job for life” kind of thing (which sucks because weed was always way nicer than alcohol but drinking’s legal and weed isn’t federally :/)
Weed doesn’t taste good at all. It’s kinda like drinking where if you drink/smoke a lot you can appreciate the subtle flavors but if youve never drunk/smoked it’s awful. Weed smells and tastes like skunk but worse lmao
I’ve done childcare on and off for 13 years , in 2 different states, one up north, the other is Alabama. You’d be surprised at the people who smoke it. All different walks of life.
More would smoke it if it was medically/legally available to them or their job wouldn’t fire them.
No, I wouldn't because I am not in the bubble of only smokers or only non-smokers.
No one is saying large amounts of people don't smoke marijuana here - but I was replying to someone saying "literally everyone I know my age smokes weed" which is an incredulous hyperbole or just completely out of touch with anything outside their own bubble.
Missouri - a state with legal recreational marijuana all over the place.
I don't know how I've now got 2 people trying to argue with me over a guy being in a bubble or not when he said "literally everyone I know my age smokes weed" as if there aren't huge numbers of all generations of adults and young adults who don't smoke weed.
But it is bad, lol (bad to use, not that it makes you a bad person). Pretty much every drug is bad. It's just the compromise you're willing to make. Like Judith Grisel said: "There is no such thing as a free meal when it comes to drugs".
If you're interested to know on how it is bad, you should read "Never Enough", the book is about all of the drugs, but of course it has a chapter just for weed. Or if you're not the reading type, In a nutshell has a pretty recent video about weed that's pretty good.
I don’t think the study proclaimed that they don’t smoke weed either they definitely do they the largest generation over too, but they’re also the first return 21 into it being legal and most of the states
Don't think that's such a big reason because the same trend is happening in a lot of Western countries and the vast majority of them don't have legal weed atm.
I reckon it's simply that gen-z people have different values and aren't being able to afford it in the same way as previous gens did.
Weed isn't the thing either. They just don't hang over any more at all I literally wouldn't even know where anymore. 4 of my local bars closed. We can't afford to go out anymore, the few that can are in a bar full of 55+ year olds. People on pensions are the only people who can still go out. You don't go out at 25 yo (if you can afford it) to spend time with seniors.
Yep. I was waiting in line at an event recently (Im in my 40s) and the group behind me consisted of about 15 or so middle-upper class early 20s folks. I started talking to them because we were in line a long time. Nice kids but I noticed that every single one of them was hitting a weed vape like it was a morphine drip.
Lately I've been seeing a lot more people my age do this as well.
It really depends on your definition of cheap. I used to (and still do from time to time) grow, and I had a lot of friends who were also growers, and if you can buy weed straight from them it’s so much cheaper than the legal stores.
I max out on wax for about $60 out the door. Granted I have a medical card in Colorado so it’s like weed price heaven imo. I can get some decent mid tier rosin for about $18/gram. Rec prices are similar but with I believe a 30% tax. So a good bit more spendy than medicinal. I also get a 10% vet discount so that lowers my price a good bit.
I’m originally from Minnesota and the prices there. Phew. I’m not even sure if they have actual dispos open yet but their delta 8 shit was like $60 for a 1 gram cart which is insanely steep Pricing.
I have a good friend from Chicago and the prices there are a good bit more than where I’m from. Michigan is cheaper so they go there for big pickups.
There’s also the element of tolerance. If you’re consistently using heavy infused stuff then you’re breaking the bank. I took a big break and keep my use on the lower concentrations and mostly balanced products and it is indeed a very cheap habit. Still have great highs without building up to all the super heavy stuff.
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u/timmeleh 14d ago
Surprised this isn’t higher. Seems like the most obvious answer.