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Referring to alcohol or cannabis as social lubricants has been criticized because they have negative effects on empathy.

I feel like weed does the opposite to that lol
to me at least 🤷‍♀️

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    I don’t really smoke anymore, but the smoking ban in the UK (no smoking indoors from 2007) created the concept of the smoking area outside a pub/club and some of my best friendships in life ultimately started in that Petri dish

    A smoking area outside anywhere in the northwest of the UK about 10-15 years ago was just peerless in calibre