A recent  <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31144836/">study</a> says <i>young adults will engage with a smartphone app... to moderate their cannabis use</i>. Intervention content and exercises intend to promote <i>reductions in cannabis use.</i> 

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Great, just what young adults need: more normalization of a behaviourally addictive device. They need more screen time, more desensitization to human interaction, more cultural programming, and more stimulation designed for 30-second attention spans which accomplish no actual work like writing, research, and creation. Yes, they need to spend less time smoking weed where they will <b>turn inwards</b> and be creative and introspective. 


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Because it would be such a shame is young people <i>wasted their lives</i> using cannabis when they could be working more, harder, and longer...in an age when machines will take over all human jobs that aren't pure creative expression. I wish more people could see how degrading smartphones are to our individual selves and to our culture en mass. 

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All privacy issues aside, don't you notice how antisocial and dumbed-down they've made us all. Trying to hang out with people and feel like genuine humans is getting so hard. <b>Everybody</b> has one and they're using them <b>all</b> the time. Everybody feels like an old friend who has changed so much you can't relate to them anymore.

Just some thoughts....

Remember when we used to say <i>remember when</i>?  Those were the good times!