I don't know how you can claim the art and music derived under influence as positive benefits.
Alcohol has provided similar "therapeutics" to overworked people. But in retrospect, disconnecting the brain to stressors is difficult to argue as a positive effect. Stressors cause the body to adjust for tasks. Likewise, inducing hallucinations and mental states of poor mobility yet calling it therapy is like removing a few cells from the brian and saying the effects are good because the existing problems are worse.
Arguments like alcohol is worse because of A,B,C and therefore Marijuana is better, is like saying "the other guy is much worse than me and therefore I am OK." Or "America is better than other countries so we have nothing to improve." You can't use the lack of certain negatives as justifications. It still has other negatives that the former does not have.
> I don't know how you can claim the art and music derived under influence as positive benefits.
For the millions (billions?) of people who have enjoyed this art, I'd say it's pretty positive.
FWIW I also think alcohol should remain legal and would literally never give up a good after-work beer. People are capable of having positive relationships with alcohol.
People are better off having positive relationships without alcohol. Going to happy hour, I have seen work colleagues become more chill after a few beers. And then I wonder why they are not like this all the time. Next day, they become stuck up again. And I am proudly happy to be my chill version all the time.
This is not a conversation about whether something should be legal. Rather, whether it should be celebrated and exploited for monetary benefits. I think no.
> Next day, they become stuck up again. And I am proudly happy to be my chill version all the time.
No offense, but judging people and calling them stuck up the way you are doesn't seem chill at all.
The culture between humans and alcohol has evolved over thousands of years, it's complex and has positives and negatives. Same with marijuana, although I'd suggest there are fewer negatives to marijuana.
Not to be in a shouting match, but people who cannot relax can intensify the mood of any room. No relaxed person would be comfortable in one. And while I have noticed the positives of a happy hour, I am saddened to see them in opposite moods. It is unreal.
Relationships of balance are complex and difficult. Any person at any time won't react the same as another. Such wildcards cannot be justified.
Well, I'm all for WFH because it completely erases these kinds of issues.
That being said, the level of judgement you're laying against people who partake in happy hour would make most people uncomfortable and would be considered stressful and not relaxing.
Alcohol has provided similar "therapeutics" to overworked people. But in retrospect, disconnecting the brain to stressors is difficult to argue as a positive effect. Stressors cause the body to adjust for tasks. Likewise, inducing hallucinations and mental states of poor mobility yet calling it therapy is like removing a few cells from the brian and saying the effects are good because the existing problems are worse.
Arguments like alcohol is worse because of A,B,C and therefore Marijuana is better, is like saying "the other guy is much worse than me and therefore I am OK." Or "America is better than other countries so we have nothing to improve." You can't use the lack of certain negatives as justifications. It still has other negatives that the former does not have.