I recently read where THC spiked drinks were doing very well and becoming available in some bars.

(Getting very non-polar THC to stay dissolved in a polar water medium requires some doing. I solved it by putting the alcoholic extract into glycerin which then formed a soluble, sweetening emulsion)

Yes, the longitudinal studies will be interesting.

Keep It Simple (Ignore the throw-away S here).

Pot’s having fewer calories than alcohol persuades me.

My sister has to use cannabis edibles just to get through the day because she suffers from Long Covid and just moderate activity causes muscle pain. We are lucky it is "legal" in Washington State.

When I was in college getting my AA in Addiction Studies, I learned a lot about cannabis. For the most part it isn't physically addictive, but it psychologically addictive. That just means you won't die from withdrawal if you stop using it. You will experience a great deal of discomfort, depending on your previous usage levels.

In some ways cannabis use is safer than alcohol use, as cannabis uses don't experience an escalation in violence, like some users of alcohol do. There are hardly any cannabis related homicides, and no overdose deaths as there is with alcohol.

Cannabis became illegal in the same way most drugs became illegal, which was as a part of race war against nonwhites, and a way to target specific races and ethnic groups, and to this day minority races and ethnic groups are prosecuted to a larger extent than Caucasians when it comes to drug charges. The first drug to become illegal was opium, as a way to attack and prosecute the Chinese, who at the time were the most frequent users of opium. Even in recent times race determined how drug use was criminalized and prosecuted, as powder cocaine used mostly by Caucasians had much lighter sentences than crack cocaine, which was the same drug in a different form, but was used mostly by blacks and received much longer jail sentences. Historically, drug laws were almost always put in place, not to protect the general public, but to discriminate against a racial or cultural group who used a particular drug the most.

Drug laws became more, but not totally, generalized with the Vietnam war protests, where it was convenient to jail protesters for drug use, which was actually using drug laws to impede rights of free speech.