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[–] 82 points 2 days ago (6 children)

This is all part of the puritanical shift that’s happening in some Gen Z circles, this post can’t be talking about millennials. I saw an article a few months ago that stated millennials were the drunkest generation and that while Gen Z as a whole drink less there has been a strong uptick in their consumption recently. Can’t imagine why they might have started drinking more, well besides you know the everything happening in the world

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  • [–] 41 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    If weed is legal drinking goes down.

    I wonder if it’s people living in weed “dry” states that are the current outliers.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    That's absolutely part of it. Here in Wisconsin the Tavern League has outsized influence and we still don't have legal weed and we lead the country in drinking. Although I've been seeing more and more of those THC drinks. I'm not sure what kind of loophole those slip through, but they seem popular.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Weed drinks and gummies, largely. I can pick them up at woodmans in the liquor section, though come November I may need to stock up

    Hemp loophole

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Damn y'all don't even have medical, always thought you guys would follow us here in Michigan relatively quickly as our states have very similar politics but I didn't think about big beer lobbying.

    Is there a line of dispensaries on the border in illinois then like we have here for all the ohio and indiana people coming to buy weed?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago

    Yeah, at least there’s one set up in South Beloit. It’s more expensive than Michigan though and has a much stricter limit on what you can buy as a non resident. We went that route before, but the grey area stuff I can get at the grocery store is much more convenient. I’d do Michigan but it’s a bit farther of a drive than Illinois. Maybe I’ll grab stuff next time I head to pictured rocks

    Why don’t we have it? Wisconsin got gerrymandered to hell for a decade. The Supreme Court is now left leaning and is breaking the gerrymander, so hopefully we can get legalization of some sort soon

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    They're derived from hemp, which became federally legal a few years back. It's the same chemical (d9-THC) that's found in cannabis indica and sativa, but it's present in such low quantities in hemp that it takes wayyyyyy more plant matter to extract enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    You'd think it would be the active ingredient that is regulated, not the actual plant.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    It is! THC is the regulated chemical. delta-9 is a different molecule which was made federally legal as a result of allowing hemp farming

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    If delta-9 is a different molecule but still an active ingredient, then not all the active ingredients are regulated. And these "thc" drinks are lying.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago*

    Yes. That's just a different way to say what I said

    Eta: sorry lol, I misread your comment. You're not wrong to think that, that whole industry can be kind of shady - why it needs careful regulation alongside legalization

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  • [–] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    It's possible they've only recently started earning enough to be able to afford booze.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Moonshine is about to make a glorious comeback

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Lol I remember that being a thing with millennials 10 years ago

    I never understood why

    But then I remembered millenials (and I am one who probably leaned toward a hipster when I was young) love old timey weird stuff

    drives away on his penny farthing

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Gen Z is lost to the manosphere and homesteading. Those are used to push right wing puritanical propaganda. I really hope they snap out of it.

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    There's a massive uptic in what is functionally decentralized religious cult homesteading

    Homesteading on its own sounds good. But when you look into why it's catching on right now. It's basically just religious indoctrination, manospehere, paranoia, racism, sexism, and conspiracy theories.

    The "crunchy life style" is a big source of this.

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