Posted on 02/22/2026 3:36:39 PM PST by T Ruth
There is a growing body of evidence that marijuana causes a number of health problems, but this study is especially sobering, as it encompassed 463,396 adolescents:
Adolescents who use cannabis could face a significantly higher risk of developing serious psychiatric disorders by young adulthood, according to a large study published in JAMA Health Forum. The longitudinal study followed 463,396 adolescents ages 13 to 17 through age 26 and found that past-year cannabis use during adolescence was associated with a significantly higher risk of incident psychotic (doubled), bipolar (doubled), depressive and anxiety disorders.
Good Lord.
Cannabis use preceded psychiatric diagnoses by an average of 1.7 to 2.3 years. The study’s longitudinal design strengthens evidence that adolescent cannabis exposure is a potential risk factor for developing mental illness.
We also know that marijuana is a gateway drug, as a not-insignificant portion of THC users graduate to other drugs including opioids, often with fatal results.
It occurs to me that the oft-caricatured conservatives of the 1960s, who were mocked then and are largely forgotten now, were right about everything.
I never bought into the original over-hyped story line nor did I buy into how the movie was treated as a joke back when I saw it in college.
States can ban basically anything except enumerated rights.
Consider the stop sign. Or drunk driving laws. Or…
Pot is the best thing that treats my migraines. I don’t really care for the high but wow. Nothing works like THC.
All the kids smoking the new stuff are getting destroyed. It is so potent.
Sure, but those are supposedly medicines. We now know that all the talk of pot for medicinal use was nonsense.
Review of Medical Cannabis Use Finds Little Evidence of Benefit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/health/medical-cannabis-benefits.html
The colorized version is hilarious... bummer. Can’t find the version where they blow out rainbow colored smoke on YouTube. faster faster faster..
Why does my neighborhood now reek of skunk 24x7?
Lately he’s been forgetting things- like where we live. My sister in law has been telling him to cut down, but he won’t, as it helps him with chronic back pain. She’s no better- she doesn’t smoke as much as he does, but she also smokes cigarettes. Here’s the kicker- she’s a breast cancer survivor. Last year I suggested that she quit smoking cigarettes, and she almost took my head off. Ok. Fine. To each his (and her) own.
I’m SOOOOO glad I don’t drink alcohol or smoke pot anymore. My life is better for it.
I received a new liver almost five years ago, I want to live as long as I can. Some people apparently don’t care if they do or not.
I used to smoke pot,
But I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening – or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early midafternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . . But never at dusk.
-Steve Martin
“Millions of adults smoke pot with no discernible harm.”
I live in San Francisco, and have known countless users. I can’t say that I’ve known a single long-term, habitual user whose weed use didn’t damage their mental health, their physical health or both.
It depends on HOW MUCH.
Just like whisky.
Maybe you can change your handle to: Doobie Bob.
Yup, no cartels growing illegal pot anymore. Okay
Twenty-First Century Illicit Drugs and Their Discontents: The Failure of Cannabis Legalization to Eliminate an Illicit Market
We have accumulated years of experience with the effect of those laws, and one result is clear: Cannabis legalization has not eliminated an illicit market for the drug. In some states—California is the leading example—the illicit market is larger than the lawful one and is driving pseudo-legitimate businesses to close because they cannot compete with the illicit market.
Moreover, violence has not disappeared in states with legalized cannabis programs. In some instances, that problem has worsened.
https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/twenty-first-century-illicit-drugs-and-their-discontents-the-failure
How much pot have you smoked to be so judgmental
“kids just doing what their daddies do”
Not nessarily.
Never smoked a joint in my lifetime,
but both of my kids do.
I think it’s use is peer driven.
SCOTUS disagrees with you (Wickard v Filburn, 1942 and Gonzales v Reich, 2005).
Say, did they ever find the remains of that hitchhiker?
< guffaw! >
Regards,
marijuana is called ‘dope’ for a reason.
How can you know that they would have been better off if they had remained strictly abstinent?
Unless you can rewind their lives, and then observe the new, better outcome, sans MJ, your anecdotal evidence is worthless.
Regards,
If the businesses are engaging in a lawful activity, why are they called "pseudo"-legitimate?
Regards,
Debbie Reynolds gave marijuana to her daughter Carrie Fisher when she was 13? who went on to become bipoler and who used other drugs and was also a alcoholic. Aged badly and died young with her mother dying the next day.
Debbie Reynolds auto biography has her hiding from her husband in a hotel room on a shelf in a closet hidden by baggage as she feared he was going to throw her off a balcony. I think the marijuana got to her too.
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