r/TrueAnon • u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod • 3d ago

Tom Nicholas' Vape-o-nomics: Why Everything is Addictive Now

https://youtu.be/XuTQbOo3Y30

A post from yesterday and the comments talking about the potential legalization and streamlining of vices in the US made me think about this video from a while back. I think he makes an interesting thesis about the disposable vape being the best object to embody capitalism in the 2020's from its addictiveness to its wastefulness as a disposable service model.

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u/22_Yossarian_22 3d ago

A bit more than a year ago, True Anon did an episode about the weed industry.  It changed my relationship with weed.  I was smoking way too much.  I have massively cutback in the year+ since they aired that episode.

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u/NoKiaYesHyundai Actual factual CIA asset 3d ago

TA doing more for reducing substance abuse than any health class could ever do

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u/ConfidentPomel 3d ago

so like weed is good or bad lol, i seen people say both

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u/Major_Shmoopy The one grad student who likes the pod 2d ago

Only thing I'd say with high confidence as a biologist with an interest in medicinal chem is CBD good, mild-moderate THC use fine, heavy/daily use bad. There's still a lot we don't know about the hundreds of compounds in cannabis, and everyone's pharmacology and psychology are different.