A mate is in the USA and is photographing the THC products you can get there now.
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A mate is in the USA and is photographing the THC products you can get there now. It’s wild to me and also I think a bit alarming. I still have some internalised Methodism
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It bothers me that weed gummies are a thing and I think it’s that the product is inherently appealing to kids. @ben_hr am I being incurably Methodist or do I have a point
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There’s no escaping my hypocrisy of course as a lifelong user of alcohol in a culture absolutely soaked in alcohol, but it strikes me that the USA is doing something quite novel and foreign, and it’s revealing to me how difficult it is to think through the shift in cultural acceptance.
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@liamvhogan @ben_hr I think the same about the branding and packaging of vapes. Some kids I was with came upon a bright green thing that looked like a novelty lolly that someone forgot on a bench and they were immediately into it.
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@liamvhogan cant speak to feelings, only ideas. is the idea that if a thc gel candy exists and a kid finds it they'll maybe eat it - whereas a bottle of rank-smelling thc oil for example, they'll be less likely to?
"keep out of reach of children" is the level 1 barrier to harm. but the product design determines if there is a second level barrier.if that's the idea then I agree. ban the candy form of medicine.
but I do trust "keep out of reach". no parent want their kid stealing their weed.
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One of the difficulties in thinking about social drug use is the ease with which we think about it at an individual level, a decision between one person and their brain chemistry. Which it always is! But all drug use (and drug abstention) occurs in societies that permit it, encourage and discourage it at different times, and have different cultural norms for it.
And most of all because we live in a complex highly developed society, they occur in the context of marketing, which is the fascinating part to me.