Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age

Oh FFS. I’ve been hearing this same bullshit for the last 25 years and it’s still irrational Reefer Madness conservative fearmongering.

So what? If anything, more potent weed is less harmful because you are putting a smaller amount of burned plant material into your lungs to get the same effect.

It’s not like people just… consume one marijuana and however high that gets you, that’s what you’re going with today. No, you’re going to continue smoking until you get sufficiently stoned and then stop and put it out.

It doesn’t take long for anyone to figure out how high is too high and how much it takes to get there, and plan accordingly.

It might be a vape pen with 92% THC hash oil in it so you take a couple of sippy little puffs and get mildly buzzed and you’re fine with that. Or conversely you can pack up a handful of that leafy brown prohibition-era crap and do gravity bongs until you cough your lungs out, and get a lot higher, because that was your goal.

They sell those oil-soaked kif-encrusted joints here. You do not want to finish one in one sitting. The point of these isn’t to get insanely baked, it’s that one good hit will do it and you can put it out and save it in the glass jar it came in.

As others have explained already- if you have the kind of brain prone to psychosis, weed is likely to push you over the edge- and that’s likely to happen when you’re a teenager, because lots of people try it at that age- but something else would have triggered it a few years later. And yes it’s just universally worse for adolescent brains. It is already illegal, everywhere it’s legal, for people under 21, which is reasonable. But parents need to parent.

The idea that we can and should protect the kids who are predisposed to go schizo by keeping the available cannabis weak enough that no one can smoke enough of it to ever get really high is just absurd when you phrase it that way but that’s exactly what anyone pushing this “It’s so much more potent now!” pearl-cluching FUD is trying to sell you.

He was dumb but playing dumber. I can’t think of many other examples of people like that except Joe Rogan.

Finds anything and everything that can be set to dark mode and sets it back to light mode, but not while you’re using it and not immediately.

First time I’ve seen this described as “restorationist”. The word I’m familiar with is “revisionist”.

Whatever they want to call it, it is fascist bullshit.

I have never played this game and don’t even really know what it is, but wouldn’t the obvious solution be to have the abandoned bases get eaten by sandworms?

Optimistic scenario: the Great Depression ends up getting renamed, the way they had to rename the Great War when World War 2 happened.

Pessimistic scenario: Economists are forced to invent a third “-ession” word to describe what’s going on.

"Makes you wonder how much they owe…"

The media reluctance to be the first one to come out and say the R-word reminds me of that period in the spring of 2020, when no one was willing to say the P-word yet.

"The risk to the general public remains low…:

Yes, the ultimate goal is for working at a job, any job, to become a non-viable way of “making a living.” Interest from investments, or inherited generational wealth, or land-lording will be the only way.

The middle class has outlived its usefulness to the owner class, and all remaining rugs will be pulled out and ladders pulled up in the near future.

This will be great for ““the economy””.

Who, exactly is trying to do that? Links or it didn’t happen.

Why does this new Religious Liberty Commission have an expiration date of July 4, 2026?

And DOGE does too.

Arguably the Antipope (or would be, if he decides to keep pushing this ‘’‘joke’‘’ like he has with the conquering Canada crap…)

I would like to see the linearally extrapolated third picture in this series