Posted on 02/09/2019 5:35:34 AM PST by Manly Warrior
Okay, we all have heard the argument that MJ is not a bad drug, it is not a gateway and is not a violence-producing mechanism, all to the tune of how the WOD is a waste of resources and effort etc.
Here is a short article that discusses some of the issues and presents some interesting facts. Let's not let our opinions get in the way too much....
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/marijuana-mental-illness-violence/
Michael Jackson was surely a pervert but I’ve never heard of him considered a “drug”.
Are you, like, stoned or something?
I think he meant Michael Jordan.
Reefer madness
Could be Mick Jagger.
After his dad went to the chemical castration business, and later as M-J figures this path of life delivered to him by his dad...I don’t think he was the same person. From that point, he was mentally screwed up. Not nuts, but he couldn’t view things in the same rational that you or I would.
Clear he’s referring to Mary Jane Watson
MJ-12?
Boy’s Underwear & Vaseline: Ex Maid Tells All On Michael Jackson’s ‘Pedophile’ Ways
MJ is a common abbreviation for Marijuana ( and yes, I am a child of the 60s, so maybe that is a relevant fact), as you well know.
Did you read the article? No? Are you one of the “don’t bother me with the facts, or like Pelosi- “I don’t like your facts” types?
Maybe you should post it normally.
You know, adding the link to the field provided, the date, the source, the author...
All that boring stuff you couldn't be bothered with.
The damage done to America by the ‘War On Drugs’ with draconian sentences and property seizure by the police is far worse than any damage done by marijuana.
Thanks for the article, which I have bookmarked.
My next step is to track down the studies mentioned in the article, since the author provided no references.
I like to have a lot of data on my side, since the potheads always love to claim that nothing has been proven—well, you know the litany they use to imply that marijuana is a perfectly harmless form of recreation. Whenever I point out that we, as a society, are in the process of discovering why marijuana was made illegal in the first place, they always try to claim some conspiracy is responsible. And so on, they have a lot of talking points spread by NORML, which take a lot of time and effort to refute. So this article will help.
If you were a leftist and wanted to take over a society, would you prefer that your target was stoned or not stoned?
The left wants people on it but does all it can to eliminate cigarettes. I do neither. The left can go to hell.
The article you sourced is a very good one, well researched, and from one of the most highly-regarded sources there is. Thanks for the link. It reminded me to read it more carefully...I only scanned it, and it deserves more careful reading.
For what it’s worth, the reason there are no references is that it’s the transcript from a speech, not a scholarly article.
Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
The actual title is posted so people can do a search to see if it has been posted before. If it has but it was awhile ago then it's okay to post again. Sometimes people post the same article three or four times within an hour of each other because they do not do a search on the title.
When posting there is a spot for the URL, which is:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/marijuana-mental-illness-violence/
Yes I know that you provided that, however, if you put it in the allotted spot on the post it creates a link that is clickable:
Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
Just for the record, it was posted already, 7 days ago:
Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence
7 days is a long enough time to repost it, but it got 197 responses so probably not going to generate too many hits this time around.
Ok, so there are a lot of people with serious mental problems who have been smoking pot for a long time.
My question to the data is, do these people have their mental problems CAUSED by smoking cannabis, or did these people already have mental issues that pushed them into cannabis as “self-medication”?
It’s sort of like saying “drinking alcohol causes stress” when in fact a lot of people drink alcohol as a sort of “coping mechanism” to stress.
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