Seriously, alcohol is a huge annoying problem too. Do you appreciate drunks on the road killing people? At least when a person sobers up, they usually act quite normal after a few days. The alchoholics have the usual long term problems though (hepatitis, lack of control over cognitive function), and it sucks if one of them is your parent.
It's not much different with people hooked on daily doses of MJ. The daily MJ dopers are noticeably different. Working with them is completely annoying, as they are slow to think, high strung, and figure you're out to get them in varying ways and degrees. It's like being around a schizophrenic. I hate working with regular dopers. /rant.
Ignore the withdrawal that regular dopers get, but studies show that regular dopers get them. Why ignore that?
I really don't care if it was legalized, as that won't change the effects it has on regular MJ smokers. Legalizing alcohol doesn't change the effects it has on alcoholics. Legalizing smoking doesn't change the fact that it is highly addictive and harmful over the long term.
Do it if you like it, but don't try to say one is better or less harmful than another. They all have their bad long term effects with regular (especially every day use), and withdrawals when regular users try to quit.
I guess regular smokers of tobacco are the least annoying of the three examples, but they smell and require frequent breaks. The more they smoke, the more smelly and nic fitty they get. It is very hard to quit smoking.
At least amokers act quite normal when they have their required nicotine fix. People who just get their MJ fix act less normal when they have had their fix. MJ affects the brain differently than tobacco. MJ affects cognitive function so negatively, that you might as well be drunk. It scares me that people drive after they smoke it.
What is a safe dose of MJ or alchohol? It depends on the person, but I really wish people would not be regular users of either and subject co-workers and loved ones to their behavior. I'm sure a person who uses MJ once a month is not the same as a daily doper.
so, dismiss the studies, call me non-credible, whatever. I'm annoyed that people try to say MJ is benign. It depends on the amount of usage more than anything, similar to alcohol. I wouldn't come to work or drive drunk. Don't come to work or drive high. I wouldn't drink numerous ounces of alcohol ounces of alchohol a day and figure I don't have a problem. Don't smoke MJ every day and figure it's "safer" than smoking tobacco every day. At least people can smoke tobacco and still drive normally. At least one to 25 cigarrettes a day won't change your cognitive function the way smoking MJ daily or drinking alcohol every day does.
Cigarettes are more addictive, but have different effects.
Alcohol and MJ are less addictive, but daily use has worse effects on the cognition than tobacco.
Justifying the use of one over the other is quite pointless. You're just choosing different reasons to do one or another. Why use any of it?
There are other antinauseants, painkillers, etc. Unless you're going to die, and are in palliative care, then trying to get THC no matter what should make you wonder why you feel you must have it so much.
Does Tyler have someone else, professional type (a good one, which can sometimes be hard to find) to help him through this? Sometimes group therapy can be very long-term and effective too.