<story><title>As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/well/mind/teens-thc-canabis.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worker_person</author><text>Watching your child being content to work at Taco Bell for the next 50 years is not something to be proud of. Regardless of contentment.</text></item><item><author>nshung</author><text>To me, a life that is in content and has meaning trumps all those whatever higher trajectory means. I mean.. isn’t achieving those higher trajectories the goal of being content and having achieve the meaning if it exits at all?</text></item><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Can confirm.&lt;p&gt;Two of my kids use THC pretty regularly and they seem content with a life that is paying the bills but not really leading anywhere.&lt;p&gt;The third does not (AFAIK) and is on a much higher trajectory.&lt;p&gt;All had pretty much the same upbringing, rules, experiences, and discipline.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never used it, so don&amp;#x27;t have personal experience.</text></item><item><author>mesofile</author><text>I thought the way that South Park put it (in the voice of Randy Marsh) many years ago was just about perfect:&lt;p&gt;“Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn&amp;#x27;t gonna make you kill people, and ...it most likely isn&amp;#x27;t gonna fund terrorists, but... Well son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored and... It&amp;#x27;s when you&amp;#x27;re bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or... being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren&amp;#x27;t good at anything.” [0]&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I don’t wholly agree, I know too many talented and hard-working stoners, but it does sum up the passive danger of cannabis rather nicely I think.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;southpark.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;My_Future_Self_n%27_Me&amp;#x2F;Script&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;southpark.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;My_Future_Self_n%27_Me&amp;#x2F;Scr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>lacker</author><text>The real danger with cannabis is not that it&amp;#x27;ll make you sick or have some nasty side effect like this article describes.&lt;p&gt;The danger is simply that you will like it, you&amp;#x27;ll end up using it every day, all different times of the day, and it won&amp;#x27;t really hurt your health as much as it will make you live your life in a somewhat dopey, detached, less-intelligent way. As time goes on it won&amp;#x27;t feel &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;ll just feel &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot;. And you just won&amp;#x27;t get as much out of your life as you could get, won&amp;#x27;t achieve as much relationship success, professional success, or personal fulfillment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Taywee</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d be proud of it, if they were a good person, took care of themselves, took care of the people around them, and were truly happy in their lives.  Some people are perfectly happy working low-level positions in restaurants, sanitation, retail, and the like for their lives, and maybe maintaining a few hobbies and relationships that give them personal meaning off their work hours.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s only a problem if they aren&amp;#x27;t actually content.  I&amp;#x27;ve known tons of people working minimum wage who sneer at &amp;quot;elites&amp;quot;, don&amp;#x27;t seek higher things, and get high all the time, but really resent the fact that they never did anything with their lives.  They don&amp;#x27;t build their hobbies, they don&amp;#x27;t seek higher levels of employment or skill, and they constantly talk about how they want to do great things that they never do.&lt;p&gt;There will always be an infinite amount of achievement that you never accomplished.  There will always be an infinite number of things you never did.  The best thing you can do is prioritize, accomplish the things that you really want to accomplish, and try to do your best to be happy with what you are able to do.  Live your life happily, and make the people around you happy.</text></comment>
<story><title>As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/well/mind/teens-thc-canabis.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>worker_person</author><text>Watching your child being content to work at Taco Bell for the next 50 years is not something to be proud of. Regardless of contentment.</text></item><item><author>nshung</author><text>To me, a life that is in content and has meaning trumps all those whatever higher trajectory means. I mean.. isn’t achieving those higher trajectories the goal of being content and having achieve the meaning if it exits at all?</text></item><item><author>SoftTalker</author><text>Can confirm.&lt;p&gt;Two of my kids use THC pretty regularly and they seem content with a life that is paying the bills but not really leading anywhere.&lt;p&gt;The third does not (AFAIK) and is on a much higher trajectory.&lt;p&gt;All had pretty much the same upbringing, rules, experiences, and discipline.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve never used it, so don&amp;#x27;t have personal experience.</text></item><item><author>mesofile</author><text>I thought the way that South Park put it (in the voice of Randy Marsh) many years ago was just about perfect:&lt;p&gt;“Well, Stan, the truth is marijuana probably isn&amp;#x27;t gonna make you kill people, and ...it most likely isn&amp;#x27;t gonna fund terrorists, but... Well son, pot makes you feel fine with being bored and... It&amp;#x27;s when you&amp;#x27;re bored that you should be learning some new skill or discovering some new science or... being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you aren&amp;#x27;t good at anything.” [0]&lt;p&gt;To be clear, I don’t wholly agree, I know too many talented and hard-working stoners, but it does sum up the passive danger of cannabis rather nicely I think.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;southpark.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;My_Future_Self_n%27_Me&amp;#x2F;Script&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;southpark.fandom.com&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;My_Future_Self_n%27_Me&amp;#x2F;Scr...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>lacker</author><text>The real danger with cannabis is not that it&amp;#x27;ll make you sick or have some nasty side effect like this article describes.&lt;p&gt;The danger is simply that you will like it, you&amp;#x27;ll end up using it every day, all different times of the day, and it won&amp;#x27;t really hurt your health as much as it will make you live your life in a somewhat dopey, detached, less-intelligent way. As time goes on it won&amp;#x27;t feel &amp;quot;fun&amp;quot; it&amp;#x27;ll just feel &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot;. And you just won&amp;#x27;t get as much out of your life as you could get, won&amp;#x27;t achieve as much relationship success, professional success, or personal fulfillment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monktastic1</author><text>Everyone is focusing on whether being content with working at Taco Bell is sufficient in life, but I think the more interesting question is whether they truly &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; content. That&amp;#x27;s not for me to answer, but if the South Park quote has any truth (and I think it has more than a little), in 50 years&amp;#x27; time, they themselves might not be happy with how things went in retrospect. In that case, it&amp;#x27;s possible they weren&amp;#x27;t really content all that time, but were using weed to avoid deeply feeling that discontent.&lt;p&gt;I say this as someone with at least a little experience, not to be judgmental.</text></comment>