Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoSwiss cocaine so cheap and widely used they’re considering legalising itwww.telegraph.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square202fedilinkarrow-up1678arrow-down118
arrow-up1660arrow-down1external-linkSwiss cocaine so cheap and widely used they’re considering legalising itwww.telegraph.co.ukLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square202fedilink
minus-squarethemelmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·11 months agoI mean smoking anything will cause cancer but there’s no reason to think weed taken orally isn’t one of the most safe chemicals we have.
minus-squarefxdave@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-211 months agoWe can name the chemical to make sure we don’t think about smoking it. For example, I wouldn’t say this for THC. But weed is usually smoked.
minus-squareSweetpeaches69@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoThere’s actually evidence to the contrary, but weed as a whole hadn’t really been studied enough to say with certainty: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24118193/ & https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6793471/
minus-squarethemelmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoSure, but what chemicals do we have that are safer? Pretty much all of our over the counter drugs will fuck you up long term if taken regularly, and lots of them are acutely dangerous.
I mean smoking anything will cause cancer but there’s no reason to think weed taken orally isn’t one of the most safe chemicals we have.
We can name the chemical to make sure we don’t think about smoking it. For example, I wouldn’t say this for THC. But weed is usually smoked.
There’s actually evidence to the contrary, but weed as a whole hadn’t really been studied enough to say with certainty: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24118193/ & https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6793471/
Sure, but what chemicals do we have that are safer? Pretty much all of our over the counter drugs will fuck you up long term if taken regularly, and lots of them are acutely dangerous.