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   Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed: (sjw@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:17:33 JST Your New Marijuana Injecting Waifu :weed:
   >What if we just give the tards a bunch of weed so they don't sperg out?
   
   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/37937428/
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     Kerosene (kerosene@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:17:31 JST Kerosene

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     @McMongoose @sjw Most medicine is bullshit guesswork masquerading as science. It's too difficult to apply the scientific method since variables are too difficult to control for, it could take literally decades of careful work to take measurements to test a single hypothesis, and sample sizes are usually way too small.
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     Mong (mcmongoose@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jan-2024 05:17:32 JST Mong

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     @sjw two thousand years of medicine and shit like this happens, it's like they drug animals just to see what happens
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 14:07:47 JST iced depresso

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     @arcanicanis @sjw autism does respond positively to CBD apparently
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     arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 14:07:50 JST arcanicanis

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     There is developing evidence of medicinal CBD/THC improving psychiatric and behavioural presentations in general. In particular, there is emergent proof in certain key areas of influence of medicinal CBD/THC positively supporting challenging behaviour, for example in children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

     Forget Ritalin, let’s try trialing weed on kids for the lulz, since experimenting with drugs on kids in their formative years worked out so well..

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 14:12:01 JST iced depresso

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     @arcanicanis @sjw
     > Studies have found CBD and THC medications may help treat anxiety, autism symptoms, ADHD, dementia behaviors, and psychiatric conditions. However, more research is needed specific to intellectual disabilities and challenging behavior. (AI summary)
     
     i suspect that is true. i've been talking about AD[H]D lately and thinking about it in relation to those cortical AI models, and the sparse networks based on them.
     
     a small subset of the soup activates for any given context. this is somewhat what allows you to *have* contextual memory in the first place. they found that adhd brains have a reduced neural pruning factor as well. so it seems like a 'normal' brain has subsets of the forest active at any given moment (with AI simulations showing this making learning and reasoning varied tasks MUCH more efficient) while an adhd brain isn't shutting off the trees. stuff is more interconnected, but this causes issues with focus (self reports.)
     
     there seems to be a common theme of retardants that would make a normal person go :blobcatgoogly: cause an adhd person to go :comfystoner:, as though inhibiting the synapses is indirectly causing them to express the appropriately smaller trees. :neocat_thonk:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 14:12:33 JST iced depresso

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     @arcanicanis @sjw well, yeah, that's from them just drugging children for being children. we should eliminate child jail in general :comfyshrug:
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     arcanicanis (arcanicanis@were.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 14:12:34 JST arcanicanis

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     I assume there’s cases where things could be constructive, but I reasonably guess that if it becomes more commonplace, that it’d just end up as a “catch-all solution” just as Ritalin was the catch-all for any “problematic children” (and I know a lot of people that complain of Ritalin screwing up some of their younger years).