High Times in Times Union

I was reading the Times Union this morning, and was a bit annoyed by the article titled, “Cannabis treatment not always easy to find“. What I find so triggering about the article is its part of the Times Union screed about how awful high-potency cannabis is and how some users get addicted to it. But honestly, I kind of like the high-potency concentrates, because it doesn’t stink the way conventional cannabis does, and you can take a very quick puff and be good and high.

Is Cannabis addiction a real thing? Well, I have a bit of an addiction to apple cider vinegar, and I like cornmeal pancakes, and would be sad if I didn’t have either one. But it’s hardly a chemical addiction. And there isn’t a lot of evidence that cannabis is chemically addicting, even if is enjoyable to be stoned out of one’s brains. Cannabis treatment has dropped as fewer courts are mandating it for a now legal product. Concentrates are healthier as you smoke much less for the same amount of high.

Operating machinery or driving a car when stoned is not a good idea. Smoking a lot of anything is breathing in carcinogens. But life is not risk-free, and people will do stupid shit. Yet, if it gives people enjoyment on their time off, then all the more power them.