Of course it isn’t.

  • YoFrodo@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    No. Self harm is a directly applied thing, damage for the purpose of the damage. Drugs are damaging, yes, but not used in the same way as self-harm. With drugs the damage is secondary, the high is the primary goal.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    19 hours ago

    I suppose it depends on a number of things, like if you’re neglecting yourself and your surroundings, due to usage.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    Daily for a prolonged time? Probably sits near self-harm, but not by definition. Self-harm is harm for the sake of it. Harm is the goal.

    Totally not good though. I love it too, don’t get me wrong. Once a year I do whatever my cook can deliver (he grows himself) but that’s enough. When I was younger I had my months where I did it daily from midday to early mornings but it totally lost it’s oomph. In the end it was just a habit. Now I really love it when I get some new stuff he made and am excited to try.

    Seen people do that every day (often the whole day through) for years, and those are…gone. Not on this planet anymore 😁

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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      18 hours ago

      Been using cannabis almost daily for about 35 years now. I have multiple advanced degrees in STEM, manage a multinational team, and hold a number of patents for my corporate overlords. I also have read more classic English literature than most people and can quote vast tracts of it.

      I also know stoners that didn’t graduate high school.

      Marijuana is one variable, not a final determinant.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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        18 hours ago

        With multiple advanced degrees in STEM you probably know all studies about prolonged use/abuse and its correlations with mental diseases. Not even water is harmless if you abuse it.

        There also is a difference between “taking it once a day” and “taking it all day”. What I smoke for 2 weeks daily others probably do in the first 5 minutes.

        But hey, if it didn’t stand in YOUR way, that’s fine for you. But that’s survivor bias, not a general rule 😉 And I’m an advocate for weed for 4 decades now, as I love it too, who doesn’t…

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          17 hours ago

          Sorry, I grew up in the 70s and 80s when the government was pumping straight-up lies and disinformation. I am still salty about all that.

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            17 hours ago

            Me too…had to fight this shit at every corner. From people who smoked fucking tobacco all day long EVERYWHERE, probably even while fucking. They’re mostly dead now, half of them cancer. Maybe it was my weed…