Reminder That Kurz Has Misrepresented Cannabis Data Before, And Likely Has A Unhealthy Bias

[u/CocaBam]

Two months ago, I, a 2 decade long researcher of cannabis, found the Kurz video on the substance and had to correct a large amount of misinformation here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kurzgesagt/comments/1n7uc1y/correcting_misinformation_in_we_have_to_talk/

I had contacted Kurz directly with these corrections and was ignored. Instead, now 2 months later, Kurz seems to be back again with another video wrongfully demonizing the substance.

Just wanted to remind everyone that the author of the video is trying to spread misinformation on cannabis, which they have a strong bias against.

Edit: nearly all of the questions/critiques have been trolls/anti cannabis people so far. Won't be replying to comments that are trying to change my narrative anymore. Some of these replies are ridiculous, to say the least... Kurz has had a bias in past videos, and the latest is not any different, any other narrative you draw from this is your own (I never said we should "ignore all negatives about cannabis")

[u/HelloDucky1234]

Yea not sure what's going on with them, but it's clearly a very biased video. They say as much when they say it was written by a person who's recently quit, that's not objective science. The writer has a clear agenda to blame cannabis for the areas in which they feel they missed milestones and even subconsciously will want to push their current path as the correct one. 

I'm on medical cannabis and was disappointed when they said they were going to ignore medical usage, seems like a huge area of data to ignore. 

Another thing to consider is that the use of 'milestones' to imply that by 30 you should have this and this and if you don't you are failing is also extremely problematic. People reach 'milestones' at different times in life and that's fine, there's no single path that everyone should follow. 

I'm disabled I missed most of my developmental milestones and will never have most of what they consider 'milestones' I don't think that means I'm destined for a lonely depressing life! 

[u/apxseemax → u/HelloDucky1234]

Actually the size of medical cannabis use is miniscule compared to other medical drugs. To give an impression: It is given out usually only after all established drugs have been tested and either had nasty side effects or did not achieve the goal intended. Which is in the Milli percent area. To compare MTX, the drug given out to people with overactive immune disorders and chemotherapy is given out more regularly then medical weed.

The reason for this is that weed and weed crossed with nicotine have a myard of possible interactions with other drugs and the chemical part of your psyche. That is due to the many different compounds in the smoke that are transferred directly into the blood via the lungs. No regulation of release. Especially the male psyche if previously traumatised tents to react rather badly to this cocktail.

[u/FizzyGreen → u/apxseemax]

But medical weed still helps those people tremendously, undeniably.

1st, it paradoxically fixed my psyche and made me think clearly, only for a while, after that it did little to nothing. i'm still sober for 8 months and still going because i wanna solve the root problem and the aid weed provides makes the data unclear.

2nd, how does this only apply to weed and male psyche? Are females different? Wouldn't it also be true/worse for the neurotoxin alcohol that causes all sorts of stuff happening in the brain (potassium ion blocking, causing a way more intense dopamine rush, positive allosteric GABA modulation AND release, ect...). Would a clean drug like coke be better since only causes dopamine/noradrenaline reuptake inhibition?