There were some nuggets of truth to the brainwashing that happened in 1990s anti-drug classes in elementary and middle schools, but I remember being fed many lies as well.
First of all, I was shocked that they insisted that alcohol should exist in its own category, separate from “drugs” like cocaine, heroin, and marijuana.
On top of that, we were told lies about cannabis and what it would do to the human body. They would tell us a single joint was as bad as an entire pack of tobacco cigarettes, which isn’t even supported by the alleged “research” that informed that lie in the first place. Those studies assert that a joint equals 2.5 to 5 cigarettes, but there are issues with this as well. That research only looks at comparative tar levels in tobacco versus marijuana broadly speaking, but it doesn’t account for all of the chemical additives that are found in cigarettes to keep the tobacco burning through the entire experience. Many of these compounds produce carcinogens when heated and inhaled if they’re not directly carcinogenic themselves. If you grow marijuana organically without pesticides or other harmful chemicals, you end up with a relatively clean plant when heated and inhaled, at least compared to mass produced tobacco products. I wish the lies had stopped here, but we were once told that you could also overdose on THC. From all of the research that has been done over the years, there has never been an LD-50 determined for human consumption, which would determine the lethal dose and the amount to get halfway there.
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