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Psychosis, addiction, ER visits: For young users, marijuana can be a dangerous game
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | December 23, 2019 | Rita Giordano

Posted on 12/26/2019 5:08:08 PM PST by LouieFisk

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To: BillyBonebrake

best interim treatment is showering every few hours.


41 posted on 12/26/2019 6:03:32 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: LouieFisk

Lovely FUD.

Been using cannabis every day since February 2015.

Every aspect of my life has been immensely improved since.
After being unable to work due to depression with psychotic features & severe anxiety for 10+ years it’s a blessing to be symptom free & working 2 jobs.


42 posted on 12/26/2019 6:05:38 PM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: TheStickman

The pot worked for you pretty much as you expected, then?


43 posted on 12/26/2019 6:12:45 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: yesthatjallen

What you said is the absolute truth:

“Once they start smoking pot, a pot smoker can’t have a good time without pot. Everything they do for pleasure and entertainment has to involve pot.

It may not be physically addicting but pot smokers become dependent on it find any joy in life.”


44 posted on 12/26/2019 6:13:30 PM PST by Cedar
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To: LouieFisk
THC content of marijuana grown for commercial use today is about 30 times what it was 40 years ago when the templates for most attitudes were being formed.

It is far more addictive than ever before, and the effect on the immature brain (under about 25 years old) is damaging. I know there will be the usual ignoramuses here spouting their drivel, but the facts need to faced.

45 posted on 12/26/2019 6:24:00 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The same leftists who want to ban tobacco claim that smoking an unfiltered marijuana cigarette is the most healthy thing in the world (or just behind gay sex and abortion as the things they call healthy).


46 posted on 12/26/2019 6:36:28 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: TianaHighrider

Bingo! It isn’t the pot that’s different it’s the little snowflakes who can’t even figure out which bathroom to use.


47 posted on 12/26/2019 6:42:35 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: 43north

Your story is about the same as me only it was a couple years later.Somewhere around Kona Gold, Thai sticks and really high strains of homegrown pot turned me in to a zombie. It wasn’t fun, and I’d get very inhibited. Cannabis never made me smarter.

I’ve heard the THC levels of the new weed are a few times higher.


48 posted on 12/26/2019 6:45:27 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: yesthatjallen

“It may not be physically addicting...”

From what pot smokers have told me “I have got to have it,” I would say it is strongly addictive.


49 posted on 12/26/2019 6:48:44 PM PST by odawg
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To: LouieFisk

AS expected? Please. Trying cannabis was more akin to “There’s no new meds to try. What do we have to lose at this point?” It was pure desperation.

Thanks be to God, cannabis actually treated my symptoms better than any SSRI or mood stabilizers, or Ativan or any of other 2 dozen or more meds I took as directed did.

I still use it as a sleep aid.


50 posted on 12/26/2019 6:50:37 PM PST by TheStickman (#MAGA all day every day!)
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To: Chickensoup
best interim treatment is showering every few hours.

That's right. They all say that. Hot showers. The whole thing is weird.

51 posted on 12/26/2019 7:01:32 PM PST by BillyBonebrake
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To: Fungi

Dave’s not here man


52 posted on 12/26/2019 7:07:10 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Chickensoup

It isn’t quite the same as valium, even though it’s in the same family.

While valium can cause the same addiction or type of addiction that xanax can, xanax is much more effective at it because of it’s much shorter half life in the body.


53 posted on 12/26/2019 7:11:54 PM PST by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: LouieFisk

Good thing alcohol never causes any deaths in teens.


54 posted on 12/26/2019 7:12:30 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: fireman15
The older people that I know who have been longtime users typically have predictable and sometimes severe issues that cause them great difficulties.

I am well aware of the issues that marijuana causes in developing brains, by killing off cells in critical brain areas. I have seen experts who say that this critical period lasts until about age 30, although I think that most experts agree that brain development continues until about age 25.

I am not aware of much research into the effects on the brains of older users, but am certainly interested in finding out more.

Marijuana is a scourge on society largely because the issues that it causes are glossed over by propponents.

I've had my share of conversations here on FR with marijuana proponents. One vehemently denies that NORML claims that marijuana is completely harmless, even after I report that despite many searches on the NORML website, I cannot find ANY reference to the scientifically documented harms of marijuana use. However, as marijuana is more widely legalized and the harms become more apparent to ordinary people, I have noticed that the adamant proponents of marijuana use are less vocal.

My feeling is that the experimentation into legalizing marijuana is not going to last long, as we learn the lessons that led our ancestors to make it illegal. But the brain damaged users are going to be with us for a long time, and represent a real social problem.

55 posted on 12/26/2019 7:12:41 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There is no person intoxicated on alcohol who can drive with the same sharp reflexes as a non-drunk. And for some reason, for 100 years, there are still people taking the risk of driving drunk.


56 posted on 12/26/2019 7:14:51 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: fireman15

If you were smoking leaf a couple of decades ago.


57 posted on 12/26/2019 7:21:12 PM PST by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: exDemMom

Neither alcohol or cannabis is good for teens or young people. A lot of sex practices are also harmful to one’s health (I just learned about some huge dangers among lesbians recently even). Many sports have huge risk factors. Driving and even flying have their risks.

As long as the person is of age, and society attempts to educate all on the potential risks of these activities, a free society allows people to take risks with their health along their pursuit of happiness.


58 posted on 12/26/2019 7:21:38 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: chris37

Geesh...I tend to believe this marijuana thing is fabricated in an effort to push other drugs on people. The pharmas must be ecstatic!!


59 posted on 12/26/2019 7:25:35 PM PST by hsmomx3
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To: LouieFisk; chris37

LSD isn’t toxic. It has plenty of dangerous psychological risks but no physiological effects that could kill you.

It might scare you to death but that’s not the same thing as being toxic.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29408722


60 posted on 12/26/2019 7:38:56 PM PST by Pelham (Obama. Seditious conspiracy. Misprision of treason.)
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