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  • 50% of U.S. adults say they have experimented with marijuana
  • About one in six Americans (17%) are current users
  • Three in four Americans are concerned about effects on young/teen users
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[–] BabyJesus@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah and another 25% just lie about it lol

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago

Other 25%: uhh, no… shifts uncomfortably in their seat and coughs

[–] ATQ@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And the other half should. Maybe they’d chill out a little bit.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

I'm not much for forcing things on others, but what if just this once, we hotbox the entire country for one day?

[–] Dafon@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

I wish but I shouldn't with my psychosis

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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

50% of Americans admit they've tried Marijuana

[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In what sense is half "fully"?

[–] Spedwell@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I read "fully half" as actually >50%, not rounding up

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

You know, a whole half.

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[–] art@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That number seems crazy low.

[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Especially considering about half of the states have legal weed, and non legal states are surrounded by legal states.

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the 90’s, I made a bet that we’d get universal healthcare before marijuana legalization. I lost.

[–] hypelightfly@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you're in the US you haven't lost yet. Still federally illegal, so you're still breaking federal law in legal States.

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[–] Voli@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Least you can smoke about your mistakes.

[–] EmperorGormet@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh, I tend to not like it anymore, I say as if I didn't have some within arm's reach. I've not actually smoked any in about three months.

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Half of all Americans admit to it, there have to be some people who lied about it.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I bet more folks lied before though.

[–] stringere@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I used to smoke weed. I still do, but I used to, too.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

Over the years, I have done my part to introduce people to THC. First in high school, then a long break. This year, I bought some gummies for the hell of it when I noticed we were walking past a weed shop. My partner tried it for the first time and loved it.

50% seems low to me, but I guess we have a huge elderly population. To my surprise, my father told me that he tried it when his wife's brother offered it. He said he didn't get high. I think he wasn't taught how to properly inhale. But it goes a long way to showing the growing acceptance. He was very anti-drugs when I was growing up.

TLDR: I'm doing my part.

[–] Eggyhead@artemis.camp 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just my upper half. My lower half is a bit too shy to try it.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 12 points 1 year ago

All the cool kids are boofing weed.

Don't be a square, put this edible in your butthole.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] ma11enSDF@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fifty half please

50% of the time, all of the time

[–] donuts@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

yeah, like, fully, brah.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That feels low

[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I've not, but I'm considering it for pain issues

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

If you're not in a legal state, look into delta-8 products. They're derived from hemp instead of cannabis, so they're legal in most places (in the US, at least), and they contain THC delta-8, which is a very slightly different molecule from the THC found in cannabis. Different enough that it's legal enough to be sold in gas stations and smoke shops.

I find that they tend to have a lot of the pain relief and relaxation effects of normal cannabis, but without nearly as much of the psychoactive components. You can still get high on delta-8 products if you really want to, but it requires a lot more product than regular cannabis to get to that point, so it's not a financially sound way to get high.

You can get delta-8 in a lot of different types of products, from edibles to vape liquids to hemp flower that you basically smoke like regular weed. Personally, I'd recommend the vape products, as they tend to go into effect quickly and it's pretty easy to control your dosage with them.

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[–] Xylinna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is actually less than I expected.

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[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

And ima try it again and again and again...

[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

How many tried it but didn't inhale?

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried it once, but I felt nothing. I was already a little drunk, so maybe that was a factor?

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was sober, and I felt nothing my first time, either.

You didn't inhale properly; nobody does their first time. Cause otherwise you would have definitely felt it since alcohol intensifies the high.

Try again. It can take 2-4 attempts before you get the technique down and are able to actually feel something.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The rest are missing out.

[–] LexiconBexicon@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Half of survey respondents admitted to peeing in the shower, the other half are dirty liars.

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[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm part of the 50%

[–] fantom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve never tried it, but honestly that’s just because I haven’t got a clue where to look, lol.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Hell, I can't even have marijuana products for medical reasons and even I have (accidentally) tried an edible.

I don't know much about weed and stuff, but I hated that particular edible since it made me sleep the rest of the day away.

[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

I'm currently in an area of Washington where there's a McDonald's in a cannabis shop.

It's in-your-face legal here

Though I'm about to start my own homestead someplace, so your advice is SUPER useful. Thank you for taking the time to write that out.

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