In my experience, in most crowds there are certain aspects of issues that are considered acceptable topics of conversations, and others that aren’t. Stoners are fine talking about the details of how to have fun with drugs, bad trips, the price of weed, etc. But try to discuss the research on the possible psychiatric issues of chronic marijuana use and it’s a faux pas. At the dinner tables of middle class healthcare professionals, it’s often the other way around.
This is maybe connected to the discussion around filtered evidence. The Blues only want to talk about personal experience with drugs, while the Greens only talk about it from a “public health perspective.” And yeah, when we chop up reality like this, it becomes very difficult to find the truth.
There are some pragmatic considerations to this, e.g. ‘harshing their high’. I wouldn’t think people that drink alcohol are unaware of the health risks (and other complications), so bringing it up would pretty reasonably be interpreted as criticism, or your trying to convince or persuade them to give up something they enjoy and choose to do despite the risks.
But I’ve had interesting discussions with stoners about the possible psychiatric issues of marijuana, and drinkers about their health issues due to drinking, so I’m not sure that it’s ‘unacceptable’ – at all anyways. I can certainly appreciate why anyone wouldn’t want to be ‘badgered’ about the risks of something they still choose to do! (I find it annoying when people do it to me.)
I also wouldn’t think it unreasonable that, ex. parents watching their children play American football wouldn’t also want to, at that time, talk about the attendant risks of head injuries. At least in that case, I’d presume they were already aware of the claims about those risks and had made a decision to let their kid(s) play anyways.
In my experience, in most crowds there are certain aspects of issues that are considered acceptable topics of conversations, and others that aren’t. Stoners are fine talking about the details of how to have fun with drugs, bad trips, the price of weed, etc. But try to discuss the research on the possible psychiatric issues of chronic marijuana use and it’s a faux pas. At the dinner tables of middle class healthcare professionals, it’s often the other way around.
This is maybe connected to the discussion around filtered evidence. The Blues only want to talk about personal experience with drugs, while the Greens only talk about it from a “public health perspective.” And yeah, when we chop up reality like this, it becomes very difficult to find the truth.
There are some pragmatic considerations to this, e.g. ‘harshing their high’. I wouldn’t think people that drink alcohol are unaware of the health risks (and other complications), so bringing it up would pretty reasonably be interpreted as criticism, or your trying to convince or persuade them to give up something they enjoy and choose to do despite the risks.
But I’ve had interesting discussions with stoners about the possible psychiatric issues of marijuana, and drinkers about their health issues due to drinking, so I’m not sure that it’s ‘unacceptable’ – at all anyways. I can certainly appreciate why anyone wouldn’t want to be ‘badgered’ about the risks of something they still choose to do! (I find it annoying when people do it to me.)
I also wouldn’t think it unreasonable that, ex. parents watching their children play American football wouldn’t also want to, at that time, talk about the attendant risks of head injuries. At least in that case, I’d presume they were already aware of the claims about those risks and had made a decision to let their kid(s) play anyways.
uuhhhh most of the middle class health care professionals I know are stoners