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harimau777today at 12:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not every drug has the same effects and side effects. For example, marijuana is much less dangerous than heroin.


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throwaway173738today at 4:40 PM

I don’t think Marijuana is likely to land you in the ED in quite the same way but the habitual smokers I’ve met tended to way underestimate how impaired they are by it and I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of them drive and operate equipment while suffering those effects. Even the framing of Marijuana as a non-addictive substance seems to be a marketing framing.

bandofthehawktoday at 4:01 PM

Yes, that was kind of my point. Either tobacco is uniquely bad or it can be grouped "along with other drugs". It can't be both.