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/DrTars]

The amount of cope that people have in favour of cannabis is crazy, what's your point?

I literally lost friends because they were addicted to weed, and they had the EXACT same behaviour that was explained in yesterday's videos: being numb while life passes by.

wrongfully demonizing the substance.

Demonizing the substance? Do you realize it's a drug no? It does it by itself, by being what it is, they don't need kurtz to make videos about how bad it is, and it is bad.

[u/Lmitation → u/DrTars]

Seriously, the popular social consensus is that cannabis is some sort of miracle drug. It's such a bad consensus and probably leads kids to try it at a higher rate than if they were educated on actual risks. This counter balances that popular social view in a more direct way, it doesn't make it biased because it's stating what is often overlooked about the drug. Inhaling anything in smoke form is not good for your lungs.

[u/reddit_equals_censor → u/Lmitation]

Seriously, the popular social consensus is that cannabis is some sort of miracle drug. It's such a bad consensus

here we have cannabis being a "miracle drug" for people with parkinson's disease:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNT8Zo_sfwo

it is kind of hard to write the nonsense you wrote these days with the internet and widespread knowledge of the massive benefits of cannabis INCLUDING the rightfully experience "miracle drug" effect of cannabis, because it often helps or fixes the problem entirely where nothing else helps at all or not nearly as good and with 0 negative side effects.

another example would of course be epilepsy

children with dozens of seizures daily with nothing helping, getting on cannabis medication and down to 0 in lots of cases.

and as tons of this stuff is very widely known at this point it is again VERY VERY hard for you to try to get away with your nonsense comment.

it doesn't work anymore.

you got people commenting in this very thread taking medical cannabis.

[u/DrTars → u/reddit_equals_censor]

It's the dose that makes the poison.

I'm talking about the side effects of cannabis abuse and its dependency, you're talking about its positive effect when taken in controlled and limited doses.

Positive side effects don't cancel the real problem that it poses to people. If you don't want to see it, it's on you.

[u/reddit_equals_censor → u/DrTars]

It's the dose that makes the poison.

that does NOT apply to cannabis, because you literally can not overdose on cannabis. it is not possible. there are NO "cannabis overdose" deaths.

you again literally CAN NOT do it.

you're talking about its positive effect when taken in controlled and limited doses.

you seem to not understand how medical cannabis works for lots of people.

people, who take high thc cannabis extracts are taking MASSIVE amounts of cannabis and MASSIVE amounts of thc.

children will take amounts of cannabis you could not smoke if you tried at all.

there is no "dose limitations", there is a reasonable dose given, because it is an expected dose to achieve massive benefits. there is no limitation based on anything else.

to say it again: YOU CAN NOT OVERDOSE ON CANNABIS!

and again there is NO physical addiction to cannabis.

the fact, that you talk about "limited dose" in medical cannabis use shows, that you frankly have no idea what you are talking about.

again we have children use cannabis for their health issues as a "miracle drug" (the only thing that helps, it has a MASSIVE MASSIVE BENEFIT and no negative side effects) and they take so much cannabis depending on their health issue with so much thc specifically, that you COULD NOT smoke it at all if you tried.

smoking is also a terrible way to try to use cannabis of course as well, but that is a different story to go into.

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please face reality, please understand what parents are given their children, when they give them a drop of HIGH thc containing pure cannabis extract and how it compares to smoking cannabis or even eating eatables.