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2025-10-04 Science & Technology

Pot and gaming combo could pose hidden health risks, researchers warn

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-10-04 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1772 views ] Top

1 Today's weed is NOTHING like the joints of CHeech & Chong's time.
People don't smoke it any more, it comes from legal weed "dispensaries" in a number of forms, like mints or gummies.
It is highly concentrated and kids eat a handful of them at a time.
Used to be, your lungs would give out before you could smoke that much.
Even worse is when little kids see them and think they're candy and eat a whole bag. Medical journals are full of case studies now.

Posted by Elmomoter Mussolini9149 2025-10-04 06:37|| 2025-10-04 06:37|| Front Page Top

2 Fox has been really pushing this Satanic Video Games angle.

If this combination effect were true, there would be a lot of Minecraft players who think Jack Black is funny.

But if we want to start that discussion, Fox, about people being on something and video games, the uncomfortable truth is that discussion doesn't start with young men playing FPS, it is middle age women playing phone game button press simulators which use every s/ot machine trick in the book to hook the player into tapping the screen like Pavlov's Carp.

I would also look into not the game, but the chat lobby. 5000 hours of solo play sounds super scary, but that is like 100%ing the last couple Zelda games. FPS lobbies are gruff and full of interesting takes on peoples' heritage but is mostly tough talk. It is the crafting and building games, plus the niche games like dinosaur simulators, which the activists and groomers are attracted to because they have a frozen audience with generally more pliable minds, especially the games which attract youngsters, like Roblox and Minecraft. A large part of the success of the Minecraft movie was not the movie, but players going to the movie and then game chatting about who had the most outrageous showing al la Rocky Horror interaction. Winner apparently was someone who snuck live chickens into the showing and released them during one particular scene, which I admit is above par but does show the extent the influence of the chat lobby over the game itself.

EM9149 isn't wrong. Student last year was taken to hospital for IV and observation after severe vomiting. Officially, food poisoning. Little bird told me it was a Hey Watch This Stunt with two of the heavy gummies right before school. Greenout, instead of Blackout, what the kids used to call it. The uninitiated, or foolish, suddenly find out they are not one over the line, but twenty. Obviously this makes users pliable and open to suggestion especially by those trained or have gab.

So the recipe would be getting high, entering a chat where person is pavlovian trained responses, such as patch update or chat member opinion statements. Not this articles suggestion that cheeching out to video games will eventually make a person an Italian plumber who hates turtles.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-04 12:35|| 2025-10-04 12:35|| Front Page Top

3 The researchers noted that there is a significant lack of research on how these two disorders interact.

"Give me money" shot.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-10-04 14:00|| 2025-10-04 14:00|| Front Page Top

4 Sounds like Fishing for a Sponsor.

As an aside, I would love to be a mouse in the room where pure analytics are discussed, and how much traffic there is with EA Sports being acquired by a Saudi Arabia based company and the memes memming a total clean out of women and rainbow flag references in the games? One could wonder if the Ryadh Comedy Festival, all leftists, was to pre-empt such a potential meme?

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-10-04 14:27|| 2025-10-04 14:27|| Front Page Top

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