Brown University researchers run joint-and-drink study to find alcohol consumption falls after smoking cannabis
  • Jay@lemmy.caEnglish
    32·
    21 天前

    Alcohol companies used to (still do?) be part of the lobbying effort to keep weed illegal. They’ve known for a long time.

    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      21 天前

      IIRC, RJ Reynolds has had a copyright for a cannabis cigarette package design, “Camel Blues”, since the late 70s. Hmm…

      • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        20 天前

        It’s not as bad for you as alcohol but it has its own drawbacks that must be managed. Also, it’s not that great to be around stoned out folks.

    • Revan343@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      20 天前

      Vaping it is better for you than smoking it, but smoking it isn’t near as bad as smoking cigarettes. Obviously eating it is healthiest, but it’s not everyone’s favorite.

      I mostly use a dab rig, which technically counts as vaporizing rather than smoking, and I find that low temp dabbing is a good replacement for nursing a drink, high temp dabbing or smoking an actual bong is a good replacement for shots

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    12·
    21 天前

    Anecdotally, weed is hard to dose I go from a subclinical dose to a wicked depressive hangover spanning multiple days with weed whereas alcohol just keeps me feeling bad for a day. There’s also a lot of focus on making 1000mg gummies that you can have 1/10th of instead of a steady .1mg per gummie that you can have 50 of. It doesn’t replace a beer socially, yet.

    But I’m interested in what’s developing in research as far as quality and reliable dosage and most importantly the type of high. There’s a lot of variables and I hope that the research can happen because some people react so positively to it.

  • Hazmatastic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    21 天前

    Used to hit the bar every Friday. Now I have a bottle and a half of wine gathering dust in my fridge. I opened the half bottle a month ago.

    Tbh nowadays, weed makes me feel good and alcohol makes me feel hot, sweaty, and sleepy. Maybe im just getting old though

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    7·
    21 天前

    No shit, it’s hard enough to get off the couch, let alone go find or buy more alcohol. Personally alcohol taints the high so I never mix them anyway.

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    20 天前

    The number of daily or nearly daily users of marijuana overtook daily users of alcohol in 2022 in the US, passing it for the first time. Checks out.

  • copandballtorture [ey/em]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    21 天前

    I can vouch for this one. Went from near-daily ~3 drinks to maybe 3 drinks a week, if that. Never even want a drink; have to convince myself to have one, and even then, I don’t usually finish it. I credit cannabis (partial credit to a psilocybin experience) for killing my alcohol habit

    • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      21 天前

      Fuck yes! Way to go! Also, I would like to subscribe to your username’s newsletter. Sounds edifying.

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 天前

    Booze is good in certain settings. Like going out to the bar (obviously) and hanging with multiple people. Getting high is just better in general for regular use. Near zero hangover and it’s actually helping your body instead of poisoning it.

    I wouldn’t trade my college drinking days for weed, drinking has it’s place. But weed is simply overall better.

  • Supervisor194@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 天前

    Very tiny slices of gummies help me greatly with minor aches and pains, I can use it instead of stuff like Aleve. But if I get even 1/4 of a gummy in me it drives me mad. I’m wide awake, my eyes are burning fire, I can’t stop eating and my brain starts doing repetitive loops. It’s incredibly unpleasant to me and I really wish it wasn’t.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      21 天前

      I expect a lot more lobbying coming from big alcohol simply because kids are drinking less. Alcohol is getting more expensive and becoming less cool.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        20 天前

        thats how the bill wound up with the ban on hemp/thc products, mitch mcconnel is in knee deep with the alcohol industry.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      20 天前

      recently medicaid/ said they wont cover the drug next year, something tells me alcohol liqour lobbyist had something do with it, came at the same time the shudtdown ended with the bill that would ban said thc molecules.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          19 天前

          true. the cost, but its too convenient this happened the same time. interesting, its 200$ for a single prescription for both wegovy and omezpic, so not too expensive, relative to other medication.