Posted on 06/07/2019 7:40:00 PM PDT by Persevero
Most of all, advocates have told you that marijuana is not just safe for people with psychiatric problems like depression, but that it is a potential treatment for those patients. On its website, the cannabis delivery service Eaze offers the “Best Marijuana Strains and Products for Treating Anxiety.” “How Does Cannabis Help Depression?” is the topic of an article on Leafly, the largest cannabis website. But a mountain of peer-reviewed research in top medical journals shows that marijuana can cause or worsen severe mental illness, especially psychosis, the medical term for a break from reality. Teenagers who smoke marijuana regularly are about three times as likely to develop schizophrenia, the most devastating psychotic disorder.
(Excerpt) Read more at imprimis.hillsdale.edu ...
We have known all of this for a long time, everyone is in denial for the sake of the next high or enhancing the state tax coffers.
From your link:
“Nor do any of these studies prove that rising cannabis use has caused population-wide increases in psychosis or other mental illness.”
The Link Between Marijuana and Schizophrenia(excerpt>
But here's the conundrum: while marijuana went from being a secret shared by a small community of hepcats and beatniks in the 1940s and '50s to a rite of passage for some 70% of youth by the turn of the century, rates of schizophrenia in the U.S. have remained flat, or possibly declined. For as long as it has been tracked, schizophrenia has been found to affect about 1% of the population.
Already posted twice, BTW: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=Marijuana%2C+Mental+Illness%2C+and+Violence&ok=Search&q=quick&m=exact&o=time
Thx NobleFree.
That does not include the number of incarcerated individuals or those in mental institutions.
We’ve ot years of infomtaion from states that have legalized.
But all we get is partisan explications of the data.
Wish someone would try to give a fair evaluation.
That goes for both sides of the debate. Neither seems to try to be fair.
Thanks for posting. Did not see it in February and would not have known to search for it!
Take care.........pilgrim
Not yet. It’s too early to show anything one way or the other.
But MVAs involving potheads are up. Reason enough to be concerned to my mind.
Harvard: Marijuana Doesn’t Cause Schizophrenia Last updated: 8 Aug 2018New research from Harvard Medical School, in a comparison between families with a history of schizophrenia and those without, finds little support for marijuana use as a cause of schizophrenia.
“The results of the current study suggest that having an increased familial morbid risk for schizophrenia may be the underlying basis for schizophrenia in cannabis users and not cannabis use by itself,” note the researchers.
Actually, MVAs involving people who text positive for pot use that may have occurred weeks ago, are up.
Reason enough to be concerned to my mind.
Concerned? Sure - as for MVAs involving alcohol. But if pot MVAs justify a ban, so do alcohol MVAs justify a ban on alcohol.
Good find!
Easy find.
bmk
Also of note is that the US has one of the lowest rates of schizophrenia in the world =>
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_schizophrenia
How long will this “Reefer Madness” mentality go on. People will do whatever is necessary to ruin their lives...Get over it....
Let us consider how "we" should do what you recommend. First of all, the libertarian view (and, when it is expedient, other people's view) is that the Comstitution is the supreme law of the land. So, please tell me...where is Congress granted an enumerated power to ban recreational drugs? Please keep in mind that it took a Constitutional Amendment to ban alcohol... if that was so with booze, by what power is the government banning cannibus et al?
In reality, the modern banning of drugs is based on The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. And guess what was the basis of that Act? Wait for it...yes...yes...it was the COMMERCE CLAUSE! That's right...that most abused element of the Constitution, favorite vehicle of statists, leftists, New Dealers and other losers, is how Leviathan permits Prohibitionists to ban whatever drug that scares them.
Of course, most liberty-loving people throw the yellow flag when Pelosi and Schumer use the CC to regulate ammo, and other end-runs around the Constitution. But this end-run gets a cheery two-thumbs up when it comes to pot. Et tu, Brute?
Look, I understand the wreckage that drugs leave in their wake. I know families that have buried people due to addiction. It is a human tragedy. But the same can be said of firearms and alcohol, and I like to think the Founders got it right.
So, if you are for keeping pot illegal without a Constitutional Amemdment, the next time AOC or some other idiot says "if we can save just ONE LIFE by banning guns, I think we should ban guns," instead of blasting the idiot, recognize that they are your philosophical cousin.
The age onset of schizophrenia is most often in the late teens to mid-twenties.
This is the same age that most people begin to smoke marijuana.
Personal observation of one close friend who could check off both boxes: smoking pot will make someone who was going to become schizophrenic develop the condition sooner than they might otherwise have done. In my friends case, early indications were there before he became involved in drugs.
I’m not saying this to minimize the harmful effects of drugs, particularly marijuana, which if nothing else can steal years if not decades of ones life and literally turn them into smoke. The mental effects, particularly on short- and mid-term memory, fade over time, at least in many cases.
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