You’re missing the point. Addiction isn’t the only issue.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28115737/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30758486/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35184002/

It’s not a competition of what is more or less harmful. I agree that they’re both worse than marijuana. I don’t see reasonable argument for pretending there are no risk though. As you know, we throughly awknowledge the risk of tobacco and alcholol. I think going back to caffiene is fair though. Most people they know there are risk to caffiene and they know that having too much of it can cause issues. Warning or awknowledment of risk isn’t to sway convince people not to do something, it’s to give them informormation to make an informed decision.

here’s the two options to present:

1. weed is a healthy plant. it helps people manage cancer and fixed my grandmas glaucoma. Alcohol is worse. There’s no hangover or drawback to weed. (this is legitimatly how weed is often portrayed).

vs

2. weed is drug with reletively uncommon and relatively minor side-effects. Most people experiece eurhoria or relaxation with consumption. Marijuana may be helpful for alleviating cancer or chemotherapy symptoms or and may help with other specific conditions. A small percentage of users exerperience anxiety, panic attacks, or pycological dependence with usage.

The point I am trying to make is that it’s not harmless. There’s positives and negatives. I just know a lot people(and have seen people argue online) who can’t stop talking about the positives and act like there’s literally no risk. It has risks.

They’re not extreme or anything that means it should be banned but there is risk. To argue otherwise would be disingenuous. I think people are either being deliberately disingenuous, or maybe they literally don’t know that there is potential risk with marijuana use.

At least with caffeine I would approach it with caution similar to marijuana. Dosages above 300 mg/day are shown to have negative health effects. In general it is fine. Marijuana is also generally safe, but can have negative effects if you take too much or use too often.

People rarely refer to theanine as a drug. It’s more of a dietary supplement (food). It’s an amino acid.

I feel like the pendulum of how safe or dangerous weed is has spun back in the opposite direction. At the end of the day weed is a drug. There’s worse things out there’s but it’s not harmless. I know potheads who look at it like it’s another green leafy vegetable that also cures cancer.

Edit: I just realized this is the science community. This article is not science. It’s news or maybe an editorial. There’s plenty of legit studies to post if we want to have this discussion.

Just so you know, the buttons are redundent. You can swipe left out right on the comment depending on what you’re trying to do. I think the button should disappear though at the end.

true when it comes to broad search terms, but google should bring lemmy to the top if you type in [search term] lemmy just like we do know with [search term] reddit.

Good to know. Thanks!

Is there are way to follow my own comment to the thread I wrote it in? I like it where when I click on my profile and click my comment, it takes me to where my comment is within the thread. 

Test flight version and I am also having blocked communities show. I used to have nsfw unblurred and unhidden when I asked but that was fixed like a week or two ago.

Kirkland is at the very least competitive for pretty much everything really.

I guess people not knowing about swiping the comments is why they added the buttons. Apollo and every reddit app I ever regularly used had swiping actions for comments and replys so it’s natural to me. I’m guessing most apps have some sort of tutorial for teaching this when first starting to use the app. I kinda prefer less space being used with swipe only UI.

Maybe I’m missing something, why would threads show up on Lemmy when it’s more like Twitter or mastadon?

true, but reddit was not user friendly at first either. It’s one of the reasons why 3rd party apps got so big. In it’s current state, it will not compete with reddit. But expect it to improve overtime. Also, some apps are already solving this problem. The biggest issue is onboarding is very confusing. There needs to be a UI that just automatically suggest an instance and give you an option to change it if you’re an advanced user?

Mastodon has a bigger hill to climb because twitter depends on known personalities. Joe nobody has never been focus of twitter. On reddit, nobody cares who the OP is. It’s all about the content shared on the platform which by it’s very nature is going to be from outside sources. Reddit eventually got its own original content, but at it’s core it’s a link aggregator with a nice commenting system.

Maybe they can do something similar to reddit which is a popular tab by default. Basically just all with the nsfw and fringe stuff removed.

My current fix is just subscribing to a lot of communities and using all less. The other option is to uncheck nsfw but that of course blocks non nudity stuff too.