Something You Should Know
The Objective Science of Marijuana & Understanding the Certainty Trap
Thu, 14 Nov 2024
Women apologize more than men. Why is that? This episode looks at the likely reason and it may surprise you. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797610384150 Marijuana has come a long way. A few decades ago, it was considered a very dangerous and illegal drug. Today, recreational use of marijuana is legal in a lot of places and smoking it is just not a big deal. While people have their beliefs about it, what does the science say? What is in marijuana? How has it changed? Is it dangerous or not? Here to tackle all those questions and more is Godfrey Pearlson. He is a psychiatric researcher, physician, and Yale neuroscience professor. He has authored a book on the subject called The Science of Weed: An Indispensable Guide to Cannabis (https://amzn.to/48IZJcF). You know that feeling you get when you know you know you are right and someone else is wrong? In some ways It is maddening but in other ways it feels very satisfying to feel right. Yet, it might also be a sign that you have fallen into the certainty trap. And that can be a problem. Joining me to explain the certainty trap and the dangers it presents is Ilana Redstone. She is a professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign and author of the book, The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More―and How We Can Judge Others Less (https://amzn.to/3YEBWGp). Your furnace and central air conditioner are pretty reliable and ask very little of you. But there is one thing those systems really need that a lot of people just don’t attend to. And it could be costing you money and putting strain on the equipment. Listen and I will explain. Source: Jeff May author of My House is Killing Me (https://amzn.to/40HBBoN). PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! INDEED: Get a $75 SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to get your jobs more visibility at https://Indeed.com/SOMETHING Support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. Terms & conditions apply. SHOPIFY: Sign up for a $1 per-month trial period at https://Shopify.com/sysk . Go to SHOPIFY.com/sysk to grow your business – no matter what stage you’re in! MINT MOBILE: Cut your wireless bill to $15 a month at https://MintMobile.com/something! $45 upfront payment required (equivalent to $15/mo.). New customers on first 3 month plan only. Additional taxes, fees, & restrictions apply. HERS: Hers is changing women's healthcare by providing access to GLP-1 weekly injections with the same active ingredient as Ozempic and Wegovy, as well as oral medication kits. Start your free online visit today at https://forhers.com/sysk DELL: Dell Technologies’ Early Holiday Savings event is live and if you’ve been waiting for an AI-ready PC, this is their biggest sale of the year! Tech enthusiasts love this sale because it’s all the newest hits plus all the greatest hits all on sale at once. Shop Now at https://Dell.com/deals Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why do women apologize more than men?
Today on Something You Should Know, the interesting reason women apologize a lot more than men. Then, an objective look at marijuana. What it is, how it's changed, and who uses it.
About 15% of the US population have used in the last week. and about 45 to 50 percent of adults, we're talking about adults here in both cases, say they've tried at some point in their life. It's the most commonly used illicit substance in the U.S. and Europe at the moment.
Also, something important your furnace really wants you to do, and the dangers of falling into the certainty trap.
And what that means is it's the feeling of moral outrage, righteous indignation, contempt for somebody who disagrees, particularly on a heated or contentious topic.
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Chapter 2: What is the certainty trap?
But that's very, very uncertain, in part because people tend, in some cases, to smoke cannabis alongside tobacco or use it with other substances. And it's hard from an epidemiologic point of view to separate those things.
I've heard that the marijuana that kids smoked in the 60s is very different and much less potent than the marijuana today. Is that a fair statement?
That is a fair statement. So the cannabis we have today is a triumph of selective breeding. Essentially, growers, mainly in California, develop stronger and stronger strains of of cannabis to contain more and more THC.
And as part of the genetics of the cannabis plant, the more THC you produce, the less CBD there is in there to counterbalance it so that we have more tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical in the cannabis plant that is mostly responsible for getting us high, and less of the CBD that may offset THC's effects.
But just as a caveat, if people switch from near beer to whiskey, they don't drink pints of near beer. So they want to get high, so they smoke enough of the cannabis to get them high. So if there's more THC in the plant, then they'll smoke less of it.
so it sounds like because we also hear about medicinal marijuana that kind of legitimizes oh well maybe there it could be good for you but it doesn't sound like it's good for you i mean all that all things being equal you're better off not smoking it than smoking it doesn't do anything for you i i'd actually push back on that because if if we think about other substances that tend to be abused
Many of them are analogous to cannabis in that they have a good side and a dark side. So opioids are still used widely for pain control. In fact, they're the go-to drug for severe acute pain, even in hospitals and orthopedic clinics. And cocaine is still used in eye drops and as an anesthetic drug.
so the the fact that a substance is abused in some cases and has ill effects isn't to say that it doesn't also have good effects and there is a medicinal side to cannabis and cannabis derivatives so for example cbd that we spoke about one of the main constituents of the cannabis plant It doesn't get people high, but it does have psychoactive effects and calming anxiety.
That was recently approved for use by the Federal Drug Administration for treating childhood epilepsy. THC and cannabis may be an effective pain reliever, although the key experiments to look at that in chronic pain have yet to be done in a proper double-blind, placebo-controlled way.
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