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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hash is where the assasins aka the HASHISHANS got their name...
I just recently read an article that said 1/4 of the cases being diagnosed as psychosis are marijuana based now. This may have been in Colorado or Washington where it is legal, not sure.
Marijuana does cause mental problems without a doubt with young users...permanent ones. And, chronic users become addicted and have the same problems associated with other drugs.
The misinformation out there is appalling as one delves into the real science of the drug to help a child.
Gosh...do I feel like an idiot...it was this article that states 1/4 of psychosis cases from marijuana...rushing too much this morning!!!
The academics found those in the first group were more likely to smoke cannabis daily – and to smoke skunk – than those in the second.
The researchers say: ‘Skunk use alone was responsible for 24 per cent of adults presenting with first-episode psychosis to the psychiatric services in South London.’
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
Pretty good summary - does NOT claim a cause and effect relationship between marijuana use and mental illness (and acknowledges the therapeutic benefits of medical marijuana).
“Hey man, how am I driving?” “Uhhhh... I think we’re parked.”
Indeed, even if they found a higher incidence, it does not equate to finding that caused the psychosis.
Well, the “edibles” as they are calling them nowadays do have a lot stronger and long lasting effect than just smoking it.
I think people think, because it’s in a cookie or brownie, it is innocuous, but it really will hit you a lot harder, especially if you are not a regular user, since you have no tolerance. It can be more like an acid trip than the normal marijuana high. People going to shops and buying those who don’t know the effects often end up in the emergency room.
It won’t kill them, like an overdose of some other drugs, but it will freak them out, and in some cases, could probably causes mental issues that linger, just like any bad psychedelic “trip”.
I have been noting more and more lately that the underlying premise of that movie is not so far fetched as the dope legalizers would have us believe.
I have started to keep tabs on how many whack jobs out there are smoking dope prior to going on a rampage. The guy that shot Chris Kyle (The American Sniper) was a pot-head who smoked dope the day he killed him and his friend.
A bunch of the homicidal nuts making the news lately were dope smokers.
Is this true? Did his son survive?
Why do some people insist on portraying very different things as exactly alike? Are you seriously going to argue that coffee and dope are the same in their consequences?
Whatever happened to intellectual honesty?
No, marijuana when taken in edible form can produce quite strong hallucinatory effects, especially in people who don’t regularly use marijuana, and have no tolerance for the drug.
That’s why they call them “space cakes” over in the Netherlands, they can send your brain to outer space.
Play it straight and don’t answer either way when the P.A. gets to the question about firearms in the house.
“Or maybe some just really take a LOT of dope when they get stoned.”
It’s like any other drug, if you use it regularly, you develop a certain level of tolerance, and need more to get the desired effect.
If someone who never uses it tries to take that same dosage, they are going to get REALLY blasted.
Whenever the word "Alcohol" or "Prohibition" comes up in these conversations about dope, this is what I hear.
They get Alcohol!!!!!! I want my WEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDD!!!!!!!!
No, we don't have to be "fair" to weed. Alcohol has been with Humanity since before recorded history, and we just have to live with the fact that it kills 85,000 people per year, and destroys the lives of many others.
But no, we don't have to tolerate another one just as bad or worse than alcohol.
Which does not demonstrate that we need another one just as bad if not worse.
You are offering a "Tu Quque" argument. Because one thing is bad, another bad thing must therefore be acceptable.
No, we don't have to be "fair" to pot. We have no moral obligation to add another source of misery, death and destruction to our society.
“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.”
Wonder why they don’t just use a cupcake tray?
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 daresay psychotic and delusional are apt descriptions of the Arab middle east. Connection? Wouldn't be surprised.
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