Unsurprising from a qualitative, anecdotal perspective: heavy delta 9 THC users seem to develop "tweaker" psychological and personality changes. Just a little seems to result in chiller people. Moderation in all things except moderation. is often a fail-safe strategy.
A related issue is pervasive discounting of personal safety with a pattern of unsafe strategies like taking drugs of unknown quality and unknown strength, and smoking burning substances without filtration under the "it's natural" fallacy.
> A related issue is pervasive discounting of personal safety with a pattern of unsafe strategies like taking drugs of unknown quality and unknown strength
I don't think thats necessarily a quality of the drug itself. Most weed smokers of my generation were heavily saturated in a narrative that all drugs are bad and weed is horrifically addictive and on the same level as heroin. Someone who then smokes weed and realizes it was a lie would very plausibly start to doubt the danger and risk factor of harder drugs.
As with a lot of things, a bit of transparency and honesty goes a long way when it comes to harm reduction.
Can you be specific about those tweaker psychological and personality changes? I’m someone who’s never dealt with weed smokers, as it’s non-existent in my circles.
IME: Increase in artist-like traits like creativity, magical beliefs, and odd behavior. I've seen a couple of Youtubers like this and remember some heavy weed smokers in undergrad who started to go off the rails.
He is referencing delta 9, which has a lot of the same similarities as what we refer to colloquially as "weed".
Delta 9 is much different physiologically and psychologically and can induce this abhorrent behaviors.
Also in the mid to early 2000's over 50.3% of US adults (Pew Research Center) had tried cannabis, I can assure you someone in your "circle" has smoked in their life.
A related issue is pervasive discounting of personal safety with a pattern of unsafe strategies like taking drugs of unknown quality and unknown strength, and smoking burning substances without filtration under the "it's natural" fallacy.