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[–] 34 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How did they manage to do this so close, but 3 days late?

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  • [–] 25 points 4 months ago

    Release the fucking Epstein files and get the pedophiles out of our fucking government.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    this sounds nice, but won't accomplish much other than possibly aiding in some state-level policy changes around medical cannabis products, and, possibly, starting more discussions and momentum behind full legalization (de-classification) at some point in the future.

    as the article also notes, legal challenges could hold this up for months or even years.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (12 children)

    This categorisation change isn’t intended to make weed more accessible but to make research on it easier. There’s tons of misconceptions that are being broken thanks to latest research, like there’s no medicinal use case in psychiatry* despite what smokers will tell you.

    * inconclusive for autistics though

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (11 children)

    There’s tons of misconceptions that are being broken thanks to latest research, like there’s no medicinal use case in psychiatry* despite what smokers will tell you.

    I don't think that's much of a misconception anymore, and I doubt most smokers would tell you that. It's one of the reasons, I'm prescribed medical cannabis, in fact (to treat my anxiety and depression). it's quite effective, especially when I have panic attacks. and I'd much rather be stoned than zonked out on benzos. at least I can function when I'm high. on benzos, I'm like a zombie.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago* (9 children)
  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

    to start, this is a meta analysis of 54 studies. not a great start

    second:

    54 trials were identified for inclusion (2477 participants; 1713 [69%] males, 764 [31%] females; median age 33·3 years [IQR 28·1–38·05; ethnicity data not available). 24 (44%) of these trials had a high risk of bias, and the certainty of evidence for most outcomes was low. [emphasis added]

    so, this is a huge red flag already. when almost half of the studies are categorized as "high bias" and have a low certainty of evidence, that's pretty bad.

    There was some evidence that cannabinoids can reduce symptoms of cannabis use disorder, insomnia, tic or Tourette's syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder, but the quality of this evidence was generally low. Cannabinoids were associated with a greater risk of any adverse events but not of serious adverse events. Overall, there is a crucial need for more high-quality research. Given the scarcity of evidence, the routine use of cannabinoids for the treatment of mental disorders and SUDs is currently rarely justified.

    so, the conclusions of this meta analysis is that many of the studies they reviewed were unreliable, biased crap and that they can't really draw much of any conclusions from them as little reliable evidence was contained within except for the evidence that more, newer high-quality studies are obviously needed.

    lol

    thanks for the link to the study, though. it was very amusing

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago* (7 children)

    Yeah, a rando on Lemmy will know better that scientists publishing at The Lancet. You must be a true genius. I’m getting flashbacks to antivaxxers during the pandemic who presented exact same deluded image of their own capacity to know and understand every single area of science.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I'm not claiming to know better than anyone-- they said that, lol.

    read it for yourself!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago* (5 children)

    I’m not a psychiatrist or a psychiatry researcher. Are you?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I repeated (and even directly quoted) the conclusions from the study you linked. I’m not the one who has a trouble understanding anything here.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You are deluded, sorry. Antivaxxer behaviour that I don’t have a reason to deal with. I’ll ignore you now, you can respond however you like.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Antivaxxer behaviour that I don’t have a reason to deal with

    What are you even talking about? This study has nothing to do with vaccines. And you're accusing me of delusions and not understanding?

    lmao

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I honestly didn't think Trump would do it.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago*

    he sort of didn't. Biden started this in 2022, but the DEA and GOP congressional leadership log jammed hearings that were supposed to happen years ago. Someone just reminded Trump (probably be cause he needed a distraction), and he's clearing the logjam.

    it's also mostly symbolic. moving medical cannabis products from Sched I to Sched III makes discussing cannabis policy on the federal level easier and makes some state regulation more straightforward, but nothing is more legal now than it was before. and all of this could be held up in court for months or years anyway...

    the only meaningful path forward is full legalization

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    The only fun thing about Trump is that he will literally do whatever the last person he spoke to told him to do. He was probably hanging with Joe Rogan after he signed that order to research psychadelics and Joe told him it'd be cool if he worked toward legalizing marijuana too.

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