[Las Vegas Ron]

Stupid people do stupid things.

No excuse for what the WOD has done to erode the constitution.

Kick my door in, you will get shot.

[Forgotten Amendments]

No expert here. But this sounds like typical hysteria.

[JaguarXKE]

I have an ill family member and as a result got involved with NAMI in 2006. I am now the State director for a 12-week course called Family-to-Family which has the goal of helping families understand mental illness better and give them communication and problem solving skills. An educated family isle. From teaching this course at least 15 times now, and interacting with hundreds of family members, I am convinced that pot is NOT harmless but does in fact facilitate psychosis in young people.

[dfwgator]

"Dude...wait...what?"

[Parmy]

Ping.

[Viennacon]

Liberals typically suffer psychotic episodes anyway.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Psychotic episodes aka the real Reefer Madness!

[The_Media_never_lie]

....and far more likely to be Obama supporters.

[RginTN]

I’ve seen it with young teenager family members who use pot regularly. Their mental state is damaged.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Skunk strains typically have 10–20% THC and little to no cannabidiol (CBD).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabidiol

Importantly, the skunk strains are also associated strongly with the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited, degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment and often blindness.[

A reporter for the London Times, who suffered from advanced RP, attending a cannabis fest on the continent, was shocked to discover a return of visual acuity and night vision, after smoking skunk.

She then discovered that some 4th world fishermen, who fished at night, used skunk to improve their night vision.

Her write up in the Times led to significant research in the use of skunk marijuana against RP. Faced with almost assured blindness, people because quite desperate.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Young people who use high potency ‘skunk’ cannabis daily ‘have psychotic episodes earlier

...and for years they were saying it was acid that would lead to psychotic episodes.

Who would have guessed pot would lead to refer madness?

[Chode]

feh...

[Wuli]

“Mental illnesses are triggered six years earlier in patients who have smoked high-strength cannabis every day”

The emphasis - as the actual studies show - is on “every day”.

The issue arises from EARLY & CHRONIC USE that continues from youth into adulthood.

MILLIONS of youth experiment with pot. The overwhelming majority do not do much more than experiment, do not become habitual users, do not become chronic long term users from their youth into adulthood.

Should kids be disuaded from trying pot? Definitly.

But, let’s be clear, among the millions who will try it, most, the majority, will NOT become “pot heads”, in youth or in life.

[Wolfie]

Mental health patients who smoked skunk daily—which has a high amount of the drug’s active ingredient, THC—had their first psychotic episode at an average age of 25, compared to 31 for non-users.

Holy crap! If I DON'T use pot I'll have a psychotic episode!