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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If there is one thing weed is really good at, it is making people okay with being lazy and with their current situation. LSD on the otherhand, can really make you rethink everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

what's wrong with being content and finding peace? The productivity drive has been driven into you by capitalism and leads to mass discontentment and suffering. One must detach from endless striving to achieve true enlightenment and happiness, and weed can do that and chill people out and cure them of their "protestant work ethic" which is a cultural disease.

Inherent in this type of "weed makes you lazy" rhetoric is that it makes other people lazy. You want everyone else working endlessly and tirelessly implicitly here, that they must face endless burden for your benefit. It's a form of social control where you are attempting to force your values onto others instead of respecting their right to chose what they do with their own body and life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or its really bad for organizing and actually fighting capitalism because you are sedated and are okay with the exploitation since you can cope with weed after a long day of work. Revolution takes effort and trust me people on weed are not motivated to do shit and are not very social either. Weed is not the solution to fighting capitalism, it helps the capitalist by making people complaicent and actionless. The only real benefit would be a union strike, where you actually should do nothing. But to organize something like that takes effort and time and motivation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/smoking-weed-more-emphathetic-study/ Fwiw.

My partner has an Rx for his myriad of autoimmune stuff. It really helps him when he isn't feeling well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if it's causal, but it could also be that more naturally empathetic people trend towards weed to cope with the reality that our society is brutal and predatory and uncaring. I know I need weed just to cope with living in a fascist society where almost everyone around me shrugs their shoulders at genocide.

Also it could be shared confounding variables like the fact that more poor, young and POC people smoke, and old rich white people have drained themselves of all empathy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Whatever gets you through the day. Glad to have others with heart around. :)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Kinda blows my mind that capitalists so desperately want marijuana to be illegal. It’s basically the closest real-world analogue to Brave New World’s Soma.

You want the populace to be complacent? You need to let em blaze it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Weed leads to more open mindedness. Why bother using it as an opiate of the masses when you have actual opiates. Push those instead while throwing anyone who has touched weed into the private slave system for superprofits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There's already plenty out there to keep a population complacent. Also, the prison industrial complex and all that surrounds it is big business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

This is why I really fear it. Then again it helped me find god. Which i then realized structurally does create the complacent worker through pacifying rather than inciting any real change. So I am back to thinking it is a crutch.

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