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Smoking Weed Doesn’t Automatically Make You Cool Says New Study (But It Sure Does Help!)
Smoking Weed Doesn’t Automatically Make You Cool Says New Study (But It Sure Does Help!)
It is typical for youth to use marijuana because they believe it makes them appear cool. While cannabis overdoses are not the worst consequence of weed legalization —a ridiculous fallacy, if we must say—instead, it’s that weed has lost its overall cool.
This is not us advocating that children should consume marijuana recreationally, but how things have changed. Cannabis was once the drug of choice for the youth, entrenched in the Youth Summer of Love, the hippy movement, and college dormitories across the country. However, the concept of marijuana as a cool substance is disappearing because of legalization.
According to Harvard Community College researchers, cannabis can make certain people “less cool.” So, what does cannabis symbolize now as a culture, a way of life, and a lifestyle? Do kids think it’s cool anymore? Does anyone still think weed is cool?
Details Of The Experiment
According to a new survey issued by Harvard Community College based in Santa Monica, California, consuming cannabis does not make the consumer “cool.” The study published on Thursday revealed that, in reality, weed could make people “less cool” depending on their environment, income, hygiene, and IQ.
The study included 374 test volunteers between the age of 12 to 99, all of whom claimed to consume cannabis frequently (3+ times per week). They were quizzed on topics such as “Why do you smoke?” “What employable talents do you have?” and “When last did they floss?” In addition, subjects were asked to bring pictures of their apartments for the research team to evaluate.
The study’s chief scientist, Dr Wallaby Frank, revealed to High Times that the inspiration for the study came to him while watching Dazed and Confused.” ‘Say, dude, you got a joint?’ says Matthew McConaughey’s character, and Mitch replies, ‘No, not on me, guy.’ ‘It’d be much cooler if you did,’ says McConaughey.
In his words, Wallaby thought, shouldn’t Matthew McConaughey, the pinnacle of cool, already have a joint on him? So he became enthralled with the concept of ‘cool’ and what it truly meant, particularly regarding cannabis.
Frank and his team of four other researchers conducted an interview with each subject and then assessed each subject’s responses and judged them based on their overall appearance and responses. Anyone who claimed to smoke because it’s trendy was instantly labelled “uncool,” according to Frank. They also put a huge giant red stamp on individuals below the age of 18 because they are youngsters and barely have a well-developed brains.
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Other telltale indicators of “uncoolness” related to cannabis use include, but are not limited to, earning less than $35,000 per year, having more than $10,000 in debt (excluding mortgage), and being unable to play the piano. More indicators include:
- Never leaving one’s country of origin.
- Eating a diet of 60% or more processed foods.
- Tipping less than 20%.
- Sweaty palms.
- Trembling knees.
- Choosing to set up a social media account devoted entirely to shrooms, guns and weed.
Observation and Inferences
Many people believe that just because they smoke marijuana, they are cool. However, this is inaccurate, another researcher who worked on the paper, Jill-Rose Neemoy, stated. Do you know who also uses cannabis? Narcs.” When asked why she smoked, one participant responded, “Life’s a bitch, and then you die.” Others deemed “cool” had a genuine interest in the plant and knew all sorts of trivia about weed classifications, cannabinoids and the cannabis industry in general.
Frank’s interview with High Times revealed that the study was exceedingly tough to measure. He and his colleagues would all agree that this man is cool when he walks in wearing nice clothing and smelling like smoke, you know, with a massive smile on his face. However, when we would ask him a straightforward question like, “When did World War I start?” he would fail to respond, which made him appear less cool.
On the other hand, Frank added, someone else would walk in dressed like a hippy, with no shoes and sticks in his beard, but then he’d go into free jazz, theoretical statistics, and endocrinology.” By the conclusion, Frank affirmed he thought to himself if he was the one doing the study or if it was the individual.
The results eventually came back evenly split. However, a 50/50 split in the results did not satisfy the researchers, so Dr Wallaby Frank enrolled himself as the 375th volunteer.
Dr Frank is a remarkable person, according to Neemoy. He earns more money than we do, which is excellent. We saw pictures of his condo, which was spotless and well-kept. He’s hilarious and intelligent. However, in the end, we opted to categorize him as uncool, purely because it is probably one of the least cool criteria you could do to judge someone based on their appearance and whether or not they are aware of the start of World War I.
Neemoy continued, to be fair, Dr Frank was entirely in agreement, and the rest of us would have fallen into the same category had we taken part in the study.
Conclusion
Cannabis is no longer for the exclusive cool kids club. Elon Musk uses it, moms do, and most Canadian police, following the new law, can use it (off-duty, of course). Since 2006, there has been a twofold increase in Baby Boomers using it. Monthly marijuana users among people 65 and older have also significantly increased (that number was nearly zero in the mid-2000s). Everyone you previously wouldn’t have considered consuming cannabis is now doing so. Maybe the OLCC could do better to caution teenagers about lighting up with their grandparents.
With legalization pushing cannabis to the mainstream, it’s safe to say that most people now use cannabis. Hence, there’s the need to redefine cool as regards cannabis. As per Dr Frank and his team of researchers, smoking cannabis does not make one automatically cool. To be worthy of that tag, there’s now the need to know more and be vast in the knowledge surrounding cannabis and the cannabis industry as a whole
New Mexico regulators fined a cannabis operator nearly $300,000 and revoked its license after the company allegedly created fake reports in the state’s traceability software.
The New Mexico Cannabis Control Division (CCD) accused marijuana manufacturer and retailer Golden Roots of 11 violations, according to Albuquerque Business First.
Golden Roots operates the The Cannabis Revolution Dispensary.
The majority of the violations are related to the Albuquerque company’s improper use of BioTrack, which has been New Mexico’s track-and-trace vendor since 2015.
The CCD alleges Golden Roots reported marijuana production only two months after it had received its vertically integrated license, according to Albuquerque Business First.
Because cannabis takes longer than two months to be cultivated, the CCD was suspicious of the report.
After inspecting the company’s premises, the CCD alleged Golden Roots reported cultivation, transportation and sales in BioTrack but wasn’t able to provide officers who inspected the site evidence that the operator was cultivating cannabis.
In April, the CCD revoked Golden Roots’ license and issued a $10,000 fine, according to the news outlet.
The company requested a hearing, which the regulator scheduled for Sept. 1.
At the hearing, the CCD testified that the company’s dried-cannabis weights in BioTrack were suspicious because they didn’t seem to accurately reflect how much weight marijuana loses as it dries.
Company employees also poorly accounted for why they were making adjustments in the system of up to 24 pounds of cannabis, making comments such as “bad” or “mistake” in the software, Albuquerque Business First reported.
Golden Roots was fined $298,972.05 – the amount regulators allege the company made selling products that weren’t properly accounted for in BioTrack.
The CCD has been cracking down on cannabis operators accused of selling products procured from out-of-state or not grown legally:
- Regulators alleged in August that Albuquerque dispensary Sawmill Sweet Leaf sold out-of-state products and didn’t have a license for extraction.
- Paradise Exotics Distro lost its license in July after regulators alleged the company sold products made in California.
Golden Roots was the first alleged rulebreaker in New Mexico to be asked to pay a large fine.
Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/new-mexico-cannabis-operator-fined-loses-license-for-alleged-biotrack-fraud/
Four marijuana companies, including a multistate operator, have filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in which they allege the federal MJ prohibition under the Controlled Substances Act is no longer constitutional.
According to the complaint, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, retailer Canna Provisions, Treevit delivery service CEO Gyasi Sellers, cultivator Wiseacre Farm and MSO Verano Holdings Corp. are all harmed by “the federal government’s unconstitutional ban on cultivating, manufacturing, distributing, or possessing intrastate marijuana.”
Verano is headquartered in Chicago but has operations in Massachusetts; the other three operators are based in Massachusetts.
The lawsuit seeks a ruling that the “Controlled Substances Act is unconstitutional as applied to the intrastate cultivation, manufacture, possession, and distribution of marijuana pursuant to state law.”
The companies want the case to go before the U.S. Supreme Court.
They hired prominent law firm Boies Schiller Flexner to represent them.
The New York-based firm’s principal is David Boies, whose former clients include Microsoft, former presidential candidate Al Gore and Elizabeth Holmes’ disgraced startup Theranos.
Similar challenges to the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) have failed.
One such challenge led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2005.
In Gonzalez vs. Raich, the highest court in the United States ruled in a 6-3 decision that the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution gave Congress the power to outlaw marijuana federally, even though state laws allow the cultivation and sale of cannabis.
In the 18 years since that ruling, 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized adult-use marijuana and the federal government has allowed a multibillion-dollar cannabis industry to thrive.
Since both Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice, currently headed by Garland, have declined to intervene in state-licensed marijuana markets, the key facts that led to the Supreme Court’s 2005 ruling “no longer apply,” Boies said in a statement Thursday.
“The Supreme Court has since made clear that the federal government lacks the authority to regulate purely intrastate commerce,” Boies said.
“Moreover, the facts on which those precedents are based are no longer true.”
Verano President Darren Weiss said in a statement the company is “prepared to bring this case all the way to the Supreme Court in order to align federal law with how Congress has acted for years.”
While the Biden administration’s push to reschedule marijuana would help solve marijuana operators’ federal tax woes, neither rescheduling nor modest Congressional reforms such as the SAFER Banking Act “solve the fundamental issue,” Weiss added.
“The application of the CSA to lawful state-run cannabis business is an unconstitutional overreach on state sovereignty that has led to decades of harm, failed businesses, lost jobs, and unsafe working conditions.”
Alabama regulators are targeting Dec. 1 to award the first batch of medical cannabis business licenses after the agency’s first two attempts were scrapped because of scoring errors and litigation.
The first licenses will be awarded to individual cultivators, delivery providers, processors, dispensaries and state testing labs, according to the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC).
Then, on Dec. 12, the AMCC will award licenses for vertically integrated operations, a designation set primarily for multistate operators.
Licenses are expected to be handed out 28 days after they have been awarded, so MMJ production could begin in early January, according to the Alabama Daily News.
That means MMJ products could be available for patients around early March, an AMCC spokesperson told the media outlet.
Regulators initially awarded 21 business licenses in June, only to void them after applicants alleged inconsistencies with how the applications were scored.
Then, in August, the state awarded 24 different licenses – 19 went to June recipients – only to reverse themselves again and scratch those licenses after spurned applicants filed lawsuits.
A state judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Chicago-based MSO Verano Holdings Corp., but another lawsuit is pending.
Source: https://mjbizdaily.com/alabama-plans-to-award-medical-cannabis-licenses-dec-1/
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