We’re told that you’ll be cognitively less capable if you smoke before a certain age and that cannabis is a Schedule I drug, sitting right there with heroin and crack cocaine.
Of course, for those of us who smoke, we know that these claims are absolute bull***t, however, I thought that it would be an interesting concept to compare the “dangers of social media” in comparison to that of cannabis.
Within virtually every legal cannabis marketplace, cannabis has an entry-level age requirement of at least 21-years.
However, for both Twitter and Facebook, you only need to be 13-years old to essentially be exposed to the entire world.
When you consume THC, the psychoactive cannabinoid in cannabis, it binds with CB1 and CB2 receptors, which then alters the brain function from its baseline.
Even former Facebook executives have expressed how they engineered their product to act in an addictive fashion or as they call it a “short-term dopamine-driven feedback loops”.
However, there is a case to be made for people who used cannabis and potentially had an underlying morbidity that lead to their death.
However, this isn’t to say that there is “no risk”, as smoking weed could potentially be a trigger for an underlying condition.
When you look at suicide rates, they have been steadily climbing since about the mid-2000s, interestingly about the same time that social media was adopted by society.
The intimacy fun happens when social media promotes putting on a facade that highlights the fun and excitement but does not tell us much about where we are struggling in our daily lives at a deeper level.
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