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San Diego ER seeing up to 37 marijuana cases a day — mostly psychosis
NY Post ^ | 10/22/2022 | Leighton Woodhouse

Posted on 10/29/2022 9:38:40 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

“One clinical study showed that a moderate dose of pure THC causes psychotic symptoms in about 40% of people who lack a family history of psychosis. If you’re a casual user and your dosage is mild, that likely just means a touch of paranoia,” said neuroscientist Christine Miller, an expert on psychotic disorders.

Thirty-five percent of people who have experienced such symptoms, however, will go on to experience a full psychotic break, according to another study, if they continue their high risk environmental exposure by continuing to use cannabis.

According to multiple studies, for those who have ever suffered a full cannabis-induced psychotic break, the chance that, if you still keep using, you’ll eventually develop permanent schizophrenia is almost 50 percent. That’s a higher conversion rate than amphetamines, opioids or LSD.

But what really makes THC more dangerous than those other drugs, experts say, is that so few people consider it dangerous at all. “We know fentanyl is bad. We know meth is bad,” said Dr. Libby Stuyt, a recently retired addiction psychiatrist in Colorado. “We don’t know that marijuana is bad.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bonglist; whytheycallitdope
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To: firebrand

FWIW the Americans Indians didn’t have cannabis and it’s use wasn’t widespread in the USA until the 1920’s when they Mexicans fleeing the Mex Revolution showed up with it and then the blacks picked it up from there.


61 posted on 10/29/2022 11:36:28 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Levy78
We're considered the n-words of white people.


62 posted on 10/29/2022 11:36:42 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Levy78

Peyote has a kick though...


63 posted on 10/29/2022 11:37:13 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: higgmeister
Dabs.

High concentrates, burned at high temps. Gonna be a real health problem down the road.

64 posted on 10/29/2022 11:42:33 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: EEGator

Yep… which makes no sense to me considering the contributions of the Irish People to Western Civ and their mixed, but essentially fully Western Euro genes. Irish as ‘less than’ is a construct made up by the dirty rotten English bastards. (My wife hates the English). As a Swedish/German/Baltic mutt I look on it all in amusement.


65 posted on 10/29/2022 11:45:25 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: higgmeister

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uz4hfUiGDY8


66 posted on 10/29/2022 11:45:28 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: fireman15

And don’t forget cyclic vomiting syndrome or cannabis hyperemesis which is another big problem in ERs


67 posted on 10/29/2022 11:45:39 AM PDT by Mom MD ( )
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To: Levy78

Mostly Celtic and Viking blood.

I thought you were Jewish? Levy?...


68 posted on 10/29/2022 11:46:57 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: joethedrummer

“My cop brother in law repeatedly says they are finding fentanyl cut in with pot all the time now.”

I started using the term “Narco-Darwinism” some years back. Fentanyl might become the extreme example of it.


69 posted on 10/29/2022 11:47:22 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Levy78

So I guess what I read was about after 1920.

Or it could have been about the Mexican natives, not the Americans? I seem to remember that it was here.

Can’t remember where I read it.

In any case, the point remains the same. Something is controlled when it’s dangerous.


70 posted on 10/29/2022 11:47:22 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: cherry
just admit it.....weed has mental effects on people and once they come up with an immediate blood test/urine test/breath test we will see the true carnage....what's been blamed solely on alcohol is probably a mix of alcohol/weed/opiates...

You cannot know that, and there can never be a blood, urine, or breath test that can measure psychosis.   It is much more likely that chronic psychotic potheads were already schizoid freakazoids, who sought out pot to self-medicate their mental impairments.   It is a cinch that chronic psychotic potheads didn't stop with THC and have been tripping on other substances beyond marijuana.   They didn't call it the gateway drug for no reason.

71 posted on 10/29/2022 11:53:12 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: rfreedom4u

“””Only thing I desire to smoke are meats”””

I had a bumper sticker with this when I attended San Francisco State University.

P.E.T.A.

People
Eating
Tasty
Animals

Drove the wackos crazy.


72 posted on 10/29/2022 11:53:48 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: wardaddy

Reason is not something this forum is known for


Ain’t that the truth.


73 posted on 10/29/2022 11:55:40 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Mariner

Out of my extended circle we’ve lost several to the direct or indirect effects of alcohol

Do have one relative that probably could have been more successful if they weren’t a stoner but never any trouble with the law or drama in their life so at least anecdotally my experience is the same


74 posted on 10/29/2022 11:57:49 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: blueunicorn6
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75 posted on 10/29/2022 12:00:40 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

76 posted on 10/29/2022 12:03:24 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“San Diego ER seeing up to 37 marijuana cases a day — mostly psychosis”

No, it’s not weed causing the psychosis, it’s Democrats who actually believed their party was anti-war.


77 posted on 10/29/2022 12:05:19 PM PDT by BobL
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To: gundog
Now what does that mean?
Dabs. High concentrates, burned at high temps.
Can you translate that?   Wait, are you talking about processing resin to make it stronger?   That used to be called Hashish.
Hash is a cannabis concentrate product composed of compressed or purified preparations of stalked resin glands, called trichomes, from the plant.
Sigh, there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9   The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

78 posted on 10/29/2022 12:05:26 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: EEGator

“true issue isn’t weed, but mental illness”

This subject is way more complicated than has been discussed on this thread.

Weed is truly dangerous for some populations including children (and even teens) since it harms brain development—as well as the mentally ill.

It is much less dangerous for adults when used in moderation.

While originally I favored legalization I do not like the way it is being handled—what is happening is that young people are getting persuaded they should quit tobacco but weed is ok.

That is a disaster—harming your brain is much more serious than harming your lungs.


79 posted on 10/29/2022 12:12:03 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Deep States prefer their populations to be stoned, stupid, and sedentary.

Those people are far easier to rule.


80 posted on 10/29/2022 12:13:37 PM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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