Yes, I knew that, but only by random happenstance. I would definitely not assume that it’s common knowledge (especially since it seems to me it’s rather recent knowledge).
For what it’s worth, this layperson did not know that.
I spotted the same issue, yes.
I knew that SJW can have dangerous interactions with other drugs. Since I’ve never taken it, I’ve never bothered to follow up any further.
But I can’t recall another instance of seeing SJW recommended without a notice to that effect, either. I’d agree that it’s rather negligent.
And the idiocy abounds. In this article, entitled ‘Top 4 Natural Sleep Herbs’ and accompanied by an avatar reading ‘Smoke Weed and Go To Sleep’ we are recommended marijuana as a safe and effective sleep aid. Yeah. If you idea of “Safe and effective” includes the risk of:
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[li] Arrest.[/li][li] A criminal record.[/li][li] A substantial fine.[/li][li] A possible jail sentence.[/li][li] Paranoia.[/li][li] Anxiety.[/li][li] Marathon, screaming panic attacks.[/li][/ul]
along with the virtual certainty of rebound insomnia when you stop smoking, then I guess marijuana IS a safe and effective sleep aid. Fuck’s sake…
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve got absolutely nothing against weed or those who choose to smoke it. But it’s a powerful substance, and there are risks. I speak from personal experience when I say that even slight marijuana consumption can, in sensitive individuals like myself, cause severe panic attacks. And even if you get on well with it (and I’m aware that most people do find it sedating), its propensity to cause rebound insomnia is well documented so at best it’s only a temporary solution. Meanwhile, the safest and most effective insomnia remedy of all, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, isn’t even mentioned, presumably because you can’t grow it in a fucking allotment. Honestly, there ain’t enough :rolleyes: in the world for this shit. Silly bloody foodies pretending to be doctors. They’ve really got no bloody clue, have they?
Missed the edit window: Can anyone shed any light on why I can’t see the comments I leave on that site unless I happen to be logged into Facebook? Cheers.
St. John’s Wort is a prescription product in Germany, and covered under their national health plan. It’s not as innocuous as people think it is; it can also reduce the effectiveness of birth control pills.
P.S. - Further to my previous posts, let’s not forget the fact that, unless you’re a really hardened weed smoker, you’ll be cutting those joints with tobacco, which is, as everybody but these silly foodies seems to know, both fiendishly addictive and highly lethal. Shit, they’ll probably be recommending tobacco as a weight loss aid next week. You just wait.
It does, if you stay away from the peppermint.
Hell, I’ve been calling tobacco the greatest weight loss aid you can get legally for decades, but you can tell by looking at me that I quit smoking quite a long time ago. 
If/when I get diagnosed with a terminal illness it’ll be “Hello, dope,” and “Hello, smokes.”
ETA: I never knew anybody who diluted dope with tobacco. Maybe we were all hardcore, but I think it was because shit was pretty shitty back then and there was no need to cut it.
I’m all for pointless outrage at idiots, but I don’t think foodie means what you think it means.
Those first four aren’t chemical properties.
As for the others, I’d want to see more-than-anecdotal evidence comparing them with the risk of side effects from Ambien or Lunestra before I passed judgment.
Not in my experience. I’ve literally never seen anyone cut pot with tobacco. I’ve heard of it, never seen it. (Now hash, yes.)
I’m also confused as to what alternative health has to do with “foodies.” 
Really? I’m surprised. Back in my college days we used to cut all our joints with tobacco. Then again, we mostly used to smoke skunk, which is a fair bit more powerful than regular weed.
Also, I’m not using ‘foodie’ in the gastronomy sense but in the “Overzealous nutritionist who thinks food can cure absolutely anything” sense. There’s rather more of these people than one might think. For instance, right now, at www.undergroundhealth.com, the site I’ve been picking on for the last couple of weeks, there’s an article that’s literally called: ‘Black Seed. The Cure For Anything Except Death’. That’s what I mean by ‘foodie’. I’m aware that it may not be the most prevalent use of the term but that’s what these people like to call themselves in my experience.
Hm. Never even heard of that one. And I’ve known a lot of potheads.
Let me guess: the side effect is death?
I’m not a pothead, but I’ve smoked pot a good number of times, and one out of every three times, it would induce a panic attack in me that lasted about a half hour before mellowing into a pleasant “high.” I didn’t realize what it was until years later, when I had my first non-drug-induced panic attack. Now, it certainly wasn’t a “marathon, screaming” session, but it was not pleasant at all feeling like I was going to die, but having to convince myself that it was normal and was going to eventually mellow out.
Yeah, I know a lot of potheads too and none of them react like I do. I think I might just be unusually sensitive. Also, I’ve got OCD which probably doesn’t help. It’s a real shame, for the first few months after I first discovered weed I bloody loved it. Then all of a sudden one day…BAM! Panic city. One of the worst experiences of my life. Shakes, breathlessness, crushing sense of impending doom, heart going all tachy, the works. Lasted three hours. Ever since then I’ve not been able to have as much as a single toke without freaking out. Which is why, if I didn’t know better, and someone recommended it to me as a sleep aid, it might be rather counterproductive 
You had skunk, but you didn’t have bongs or pipes? That’s like taking a morsel of rich *gâteau *and stuffing it into a Twinkie.
Well, you won’t get any argument from me that Ambien and Lunestra are seriously bad news and are, at best, drugs of absolute last resort. And if you use weed without any problems and it’s your preferred sedative of choice, knock yourself out (Ba-dum-dum). My problem isn’t so much with them recommending weed as a sedative, it’s recommending weed as a sedative without a single disclaimer about how (a) you can get in a shitload of trouble if the wrong person catches you holding it (although to be fair, you’d be an idiot not to know that) and, most importantly (b) while most people can use weed without any trouble, for some people it can be exceptionally harmful. Apart from my parents, none of my friends or relatives know this (and I’m only repeating it here because it’s conveniently anonymous), but my experiences with weed precipitated a psychotic break which lasted about six weeks. I hardly slept, I lost two stone because I starved myself for fear that everyone was trying to poison me, and I spent the next ten years on anti-depressants because, once that panic attack door got opened, I found I simply couldn’t close it again on my own.
Now, I’m not trying to demonise weed. My two housemates both smoke it prodigiously, and they’re two of the most stable and well adjusted people I know. And, as I’ve said above, I do have a history of low-level mental illness - a history which runs in the family, incidentally. Everything that happened to me might very well have happened anyway at some point. However, there is no doubt in my mind that the weed accelerated things dramatically. It’s a powerful drug, to be treated with respect. And it’s most very definitely not for everybody. To recommend it as cavalierly as recommending Robitussin for a childhood cold, as the authors of the offending article did, without a single disclaimer about its possible side-effects (rare though they might be) strikes me as being the height of irresponsibility. To my mind, it’s as bad as recommending Ambien without mentioning how fiendishly addictive it can be.
Stealing this.
I’ve seen it a few times professionally, FWIW. Keeping in mind correlation/causation and such, of course, but I believe that lots of pot is eventually likely to produce bad things in anxious people.