Now if I take a drug like Meth, with- who knows how many compounds, versus, weed...

Right

I buy meth off the street, I have a general idea of what is already in it, INCLUDING any additional "surprises" the cooks might have in it, same with with, but if I buy weed off the street, I reduce those chances, just as if I cook or grow either of these drugs myself.

*weed

Eliminate for variable X as much as possible, find the baseline, reduce the control to least destructive, you form an argument to say what is or is not more harmful.

I'd say corn syrup is more addictive than weed.

But you have to control for accessibility and how pervasive it is

Oh hell yeah sugar is probably the most destructive drug in the west

Cancer rates far higher than they need to be

And many other diseases ofc

But hey

Mmmm

"Those crackheads, ruining their lives" says dad, as he poors sugar into his 6th coffee of the day

I never understood dudes that needed that much.

Maybe had a previous reliance on cocaine in the past? No idea.

Coffee is a pretty horrible drug because it's not being talked about as potentially dangerous

People drink these things like they're nothing, not giving a thought, and I mean, it's not like I don't understand them, but seriously

Lack of education smh

I don't even wanna know how many things I have in my diet that I should still cut out

Well, to be fair, could be one day the scientists will suddenly realize something that was thought to be healthy is now a cause of X problem.

As is that has never happened...<:thinkcide:462282415549841409>

With education SOMETIMES on shaky grounds, media A LOT of times on shaky grounds, a bit of doubt is healthy.

There is a reason why critical thought is a first year general in many universities, shame so many students throw it out the window and follow other professors as a damn prophet.

Maybe that's the reason the coffee epidemic is not being talked about

Cause scientists abuse it themselves ofc

It is certainly conducive to keeping people productive...

Soft drinks have been a target, but I promise coffee will be protected for a while longer

Coffee is not really helpful actually

It brings the overall performance down

Thats why you drink it 6 times a day

But you don't notice that effect, and if you did, only after about 1-2 weeks

No what I'm saying is, even 6 coffees don't raise your performance

They lower your average so much that you perform worse over time

Dependency then habit

Yeah

Plus the fact most coffee drinkers add sugar

That's the real killer

I don't know what happened, sugar was a target for a while

But then suddenly not so much

Special interests, other epidemics, natural disaster, pedophile ring that serves the elite class.

Trump miss spelling a word in a Tweet, I dunno...