Message from @Dusty Morgan
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What's the average annual income of habitual pot-smokers vs. nonsmokers?
@Timcast So many side effects. Some people could have averse reactions. Also it would also restrict many from people from medication they need, since they can't mix. Then there is doctors who will draw blood and find it our blood.
Betchya it's lower.
They were the types who would sit at home and smoke pot all day beforehand.
@Timcast My best friend was court ordered to take Lithium after a mental breakdown that result in his arrest. He told me that the lithium pulled him into "a darker space" of his mind, that it drained all his motivation being on the medication, and it didn't help how he was feeling. This could be incredibly dangerous to more individuals than it would help.
There is so much unknown to this medication for them to be pouring it into the water system.
Particularly like people like my best friend.
Unknown?
I only smoke when I'm home and dont intend to leave the house
No, it's actually one of the most well known psychotropic substances.
Lithium effects people differently.
^It does
Lithium can make you fat
Yes.
We actually know those side effects pretty well. It is one of the longest standing uses.
Unknown side effects... this is large scale fucking medicating the water.
Who else done that before? CIA? experiments?
Yeah.... I don't trust this at all.
And I vape cannabis, if that makes a difference lol, I don't want wrinkles
You don't want government to put lithium into your drinking water? What are you? A conspiracy nut??
Adding lithium could be exceptionally dangerous in one obvious situation, **regular overdose**.
They done this shit before.
Yes, and there were also thoughts more recently to spike the water in Europe.
These recent studies have made me less confident in the link between lithium and lower suicide rates than I was when I first encountered Ghaemi’s research. But it’s such a cheap intervention, and the odds of serious side effects sound low enough, that it seems worth a try.
At the very least, I’d love for some governments to conduct real, bona fide experiments on lithium. Maybe a state could randomly add lithium to some of its reservoirs but not others, or, conversely, a high-lithium state could try removing it from the water. There are serious ethical questions about doing experiments like this that affect whole populations, but if lithium’s effect is real and we don’t pursue it because we lack compelling enough evidence, thereby endangering thousands of people — that’s an ethical problem too.
They are getting in the territory of unethical human testing.
By saying randomly spiking water.
> it seems worth a try.
sounds about right
where do we all sign up?
We should lace the water with testosterone.
and steroids
haha yeah I want a beard
just counter it with soy latte
and pumpkin spice starbucks
or take any regular birth control
Quote: But putting lithium in the water would actually be a mind-control plot: It would be a concerted effort by the government to put mind-altering chemicals in the water supply to change the behavior of the citizenry. And I say that as someone who thinks that, if it works, that it would be a great idea! Preventing suicide is really important, but it does require changing how people think, a tiny bit.
we should just chain everyone to their living room couch
Crazy Americans wasting a valuable rare earth element, needed for green electric car batteries, by using it as a tap water additive.