Don’t forget the propensity of evangelical potheads to preach their addiction to everyone around them. Very annoying.
And, as I learned in Vietnam, weed can cause psychotic breaks. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.
—”weed can cause psychotic breaks”
Our son the teacher says they see it in the classrooms!!!
But just think of all the tax money coming in from legal and taxed marijuana!!! They overlook the medical, social, education,... costs. BUT,BUT, BUT they will vote for me when it passes!
McCance-Katz taught at Yale and Brown universities and held senior posts for state substance abuse agencies before joining HHS under the Obama administration as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration chief medical officer.
She pointed out that hospitalizations more than doubled for serious mental health disorders among 18- to 25-year-olds nationally from 2012 to 2018. She cited a study in July that shows a 77% increase in suicide deaths from 2010 to 2015 among Colorado 10- to 19-year-olds with marijuana in their systems.
The data on cannabis-induced psychosis, she said, demands the government both speak out and manage fears. Among people who use marijuana, 10% to 20% will develop a marijuana use disorder and “be at risk for these other kinds of mental and physical adverse events,” she said.
“That’s not the majority, that’s the minority of people who use marijuana, but here’s the problem: We don’t know who they are a priori (in advance),” McCance-Katz said. “We do not want to exaggerate the risks.”