Posted on 02/15/2015 7:32:34 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
Full Title: Strong cannabis causes one in four cases of psychosis: Users three times more likely to have an episode than those who have never tried it ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª As many as a quarter of new cases of psychotic mental illness can be blamed on super-strength strains of cannabis, scientists will warn this week. The potent form of the drug known as skunk is so powerful that users are three times more likely to have a psychotic episode than those who have never tried it.
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Sound like hash oil. Lots and lots.
Maureen Dowd’s chocolate bar had the same effect.
And we were told that she ate “too much”.
Maybe that one brownie was supposed to feed 12 or 20 people.
Or maybe some just really take a LOT of dope when they get stoned.
In other news: Study finds psychotic patients fifty times more likely to smoke strong pot than normal people.
"I won't go schizo, will I?"
"It's a distinct possibility."
I can remember my (toker) brother explaining all that to me, back in the mid to late 80s. He showed me a tiny little baggie with just a sprinkle of weed in it and explained that it was a ten dollar bag.
Huh? I thought he'd been ripped off until he told me that it wasn't the same sort of junk we'd smoked as kids.
I'd been out of that culture for a long time at that point, and didn't have a clue about street drugs any longer.
I didn't know marijuana grew in the middle east back then. Then again, I read somewhere that researchers found traces of it in mummy wrappings, so maybe so.
Cannabis use in the Middle East was already ancient by the time of Mohammed.
Cannabis was always rejected as an intoxicant by Western civilization, even in the time of the ancient Greeks.
There is a difference in these regions, like the West that was alcohol based, and the peoples who were Cannabis based.
I guess that's what all those Bedouins were smoking in their hookah pipes. I seem to also recall that hashish comes from that part of the world.
No wonder their culture is cemented in the 7th century. They've been stoned for 1,300 years.
Um, you don’t ‘come down’ with bipolar disorder. It’s something you are born with.
It can induce mania and/or paranoia in someone who has bipolar disorder which is exactly what it did to me.
It made me very manic and it even messed with my mind to a certain extent.
It wasn’t relaxing or enjoyable at all.
I was close to getting a contact high from a group smoking it at the park I was detecting at today. You can pretty much smell it anytime you’re around the parks in Oakland.
Interestingly, it’s also an item I’m beginning to see in the trash on the roadside while working, lots of empty “medical MJ” bags, and an occasional one with contents.
It's a problem with all research done on new meds. Long-term conclusions are being drawn from short-term data.
Americas first CHOOM-American President
At an estimated $35.8 billion marijuana is by far the largest cash crop in the United States when compared to the average production values of other crops ...
we are so screwed..generations...using this stuff from early youth onward.....
I thought spice was used by addicted Guild Navigators to help them navigate space through worm holes.
The dilemna with baking cannabis products is that it’s not really possible to know how much of the butter will end up in any particular piece of the brownie tray.
It’s very likely that some pieces will have more butter in them than others.
So it’s possibly someone gets a “WHAT THE EFF” chunk, and someone else gets a brownie that is just a brownie.
Yeah, and those guys are crazy, right?
I’d say the Daily Mail author doesen’t know what they’re writing about, calling skunk weed stronger than hash? Hash is made from trichomes, which come from strong pot, but that hash is way more potent than pot. Just sayin’...
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