You're facing an uphill battle in convincing people that they should not smoke this.
I mean there's temptation, and then there's temptation, and then there's this.
Michael Jackson was surely a pervert but I’ve never heard of him considered a “drug”.
Are you, like, stoned or something?
Reefer madness
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.
MJ-12?
Boy’s Underwear & Vaseline: Ex Maid Tells All On Michael Jackson’s ‘Pedophile’ Ways
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.
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.
You're facing an uphill battle in convincing people that they should not smoke this.
I mean there's temptation, and then there's temptation, and then there's this.
Just got the book yesterday.
In all fairness, there is an old argument about drugs and alcohol, that is ignored by both sides, but raises an interesting point:
“Do drugs (and alcohol) make a person weak, or do they use drugs (and alcohol) *because* they are weak?”
Part of the argument supporting the latter is that, while strong people can become addicts, it is far easier for them to quit. Weak people become easily addicted, and very reliant on their drugs, and even if their physical addiction is broken, their psychological addiction is not.
This quote sums it up:
“A caveat: this federal survey doesn’t count individual cases, and it lumps psychosis with other severe mental illness. So it isn’t as accurate as the Finnish or Danish studies. Nor do any of these studies prove that rising cannabis use has caused population-wide increases in psychosis or other mental illness. The most that can be said is that they offer intriguing evidence of a link.”
Hard-hitting article there... /s
I’m amazed at how devious the push was to legalize marijuana. And even now, all the snake-oil claims about what cannabis can cure...
Of course if you point out the flaws, you end up arguing with a pothead, which is a pointless endeavor.
Saw this is my latest copy of Imprimus, an excellent free monthly newsletter from Hillsdale College.
Good article.
This is a great article in “Imprimis” the current issue. Lots of good information. Glad it got posted here.
Laziness, gradual lack of work ethic, grouchiness, anger at those who insist on a work ethic.
The article has been thoroughly debunked.
Full of allusions, short on facts, cause and effect.
Of course those who want to believe it’s a scholarly work loaded with facts, will.
But it’s not.
Note: Anyone who is crazy should not smoke pot. Anyone who thinks they may be crazy should not smoke pot. Or drink whiskey. Or take/ingest ANY mind altering substance.
A couple of years ago, Jackie was telling me about a patient. In passing, she said something like, Of course he’d been smoking pot his whole life.
Of course? I said.
Yes, they all smoke.
So marijuana causes schizophrenia?
...
Jackie would have been within her rights to say, I know what I’m talking about, unlike you. Instead she offered something neutral like, I think that’s what the big studies say. You should read them.
So I did. The big studies, the little ones, and all the rest. I read everything I could find. I talked to every psychiatrist and brain scientist who would talk to me. And I soon realized that in all my years as a journalist I had never seen a story where the gap between insider and outsider knowledge was so great, or the stakes so high.
To what 'big studies' could she be referring? Pot is still a schedule I drug, which has prevented any real long-term studies.
They’ve told you cannabis can stem opioid use—“Two new studies show how marijuana can help fight the opioid epidemic,” according to Wonkblog, a Washington Post website, in April 2018...
I stopped reading right there. Jeff Bezos' fake news and junk science fit together hand-in-glove.