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I don’t smoke weed, but phrasing it’s usage as “drug consumption” always annoyed me. It makes it sound like it’s the same thing as heroin or meth, which it’s not even close to the same thing.
It's the same thing as alcohol.
From what I recall weed is considered less harmful and addictive than alcohol. Most recent study that caught my eye was from New Zealand. Alcohol was somewhere on the top along with heroin. THC somewhere in the middle ranks.
Sure, alcohol is pretty bad. But I've been disappointed when looking up places to hang out, so many of them are some kind of bar. I'm fine with people using drugs on their own time, but I'd like for there to also be places where people don't.