Posted on 04/22/2018 10:31:32 AM PDT by familyop
Cannabis is responsible for 91 per cent of cases where teenagers end up being treated for drug addiction, shocking new figures reveal...The findings also back up academic research, revealed in The Mail on Sunday over the past three years, that skunk is having a serious detrimental impact on the mental health of the young. At least two studies have shown repeated use triples the risk of psychosis, with sufferers repeatedly experiencing delusional thoughts. Some victims end up taking their own lives.
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I’ll talk about it.
It can be mildly harmful if abused, or immediately harmful if used stupidly, such as getting high then driving resulting in an accident that kills.
I don’t believe that there are gateway drugs, only gateway personalities. If one is prone to walk stupid paths in life, then one is likely to walk stupid paths in life.
Correct.
Different people have different reactions. The obsessive compulsive type tend to get extremely addicted to things that others can just quit with no problem. I knew someone who could smoke one or two cigarettes a day, and then not smoke for a week or more. I could never understand it. Then there’s people like me....
Nicotine is only mildly addictive.
I know that cocaine is addictive as it is a CNS stimulant, however my use of cocaine did not cause an addiction for me as I did not use it daily for some extended period of time in order for me to become physically dependent on it.
I also came to the easily realization that this drug is extremely bad news, and there is no benefit to my using it, and it causes legit psychosis even after one use, so I walked away and never looked back.
I consider myself very fortunate.
It could never be that way?
They say cats cause schizophrenia because so many with schizophia own cats.
I’ve heard different stories about nicotine. Some say it’s harder to quit than heroin, and others like you say it’s not. I’d rather not make the comparison myself. I actually quit 4 times, cold turkey each one. Each time was harder than the last. The final time I decided I decided never again, because I can’t go through it again. I would have to say pot is only mildly addicting by comparison to nicotine, but I was hooked on it even though I hated it. That sounds like a contradiction, I know. But I hated the effects even though I’d smoke it anyway. I’ve been called a lightweight and so forth, that I can’t handle it mentally, blah blah blah. What does it matter? I’m not the only one that reacts that way.
Cannibis is NOT “responsible” for people becoming opiate addicts.
That is absurd premise to start the article.
My brother would have disagreed. He's in the Florida Veteran's Cemetery, buried at section 412 site 2402, dead at the age of 44. You could ask.
He used from the time he was 13. That was ALL he used. Couldn't function, as such, without it.
I think it defines addiction.
Opiates physically bond with receptors in your nervous system. If that connection is stopped you get physically ill as you go through withdrawal.
Psychological addiction is a different thing.
Skunk is a specific type of marijuana, it has a strong odor and not very pleasant, unlike other strains that smell like oregano or even pine trees. Different effects too, sort of a “blind” discombobulated high. Never understood why anyone liked it, back when I engaged in such things. I didn’t find it enjoyable at all.
People generally smoke or drink until they reach the level of intoxication desired. Just because you normally drink two pints of beer, doesn’t mean you will drink two pints of whiskey. Likewise, with stronger weed people tend to smoke less. Probably better for you since it means inhaling less smoke.
The majority will buy for . . . .and share with minors
Just like it’s done with alcohol
Like it's done with alcohol is already less than what happens now with pot.
"The majority"? You need to associate with a better class of people.
If so, then widespread intoxication seems to be something this society can handle.
“Cannabis is responsible for 91 per cent of cases where teenagers end up being treated for drug addiction”
I know in the USA teens are often sent to rehab in lieu of jail for cannabis first offenses. Do they do that in the UK? That would explain the statistic.
“If you legalize pot, you will find more people will be arrested for it than before.”
Not happening in Denver =>
“[Denver PD spokesman]Jackson says that pot arrests for adults, of all racial groups, have been cut in half since legalization...”
“If so, then widespread intoxication seems to be something this society can handle.”
The statistic I read is that more than 10,000 people per year are killed by drunk driving. That doesn’t say to me “society can handle widespread intoxication.” That’s 10,000 men, women and children killed needlessly. That doesn’t include the massive life changing injuries inflicted by drunk drivers.
Thank you for the best response on the thread.
I know what you mean, which is why I have a problem with blanket statements about substances. In my experience, like you relate, it seems to be far more dependent on the individual.
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