Everybody wants it legal; everybody wants a piece of the action.
Discussion of cannabis psychosis is being suppressed in the media. Even in emergency rooms dope is treated as coincidental: “patient suffered pneumonia, evidently contracted after he removed is clothing for a January romp in the public fountain. Blood tested positive for THC.”
Don’t ask me why I know, lets say recent events have occured and I’ve had reason to look into this.
There are three known species on cannabis,one I can’t recall. The older stoners used the C sativa variety. That’s old hat, replaced by a far more potent C indica— from the Hindu Kush. Indica has been crossed with sativa and selectively bred to contain a dangerously high level of THC.
Add to that another fact; there’s a substance in Pot that is actually beneficial—CBD.This stuff shows great potential as a treatment for pain and many psychological conditions—including schizophrenia Some have speculated that it balanced the deleterious effects of thc in the older, mellower varieties of yesteryear. It seems that as THC levels in the hybrids increased, the levels of benign, possibly neural protective CBD have decreased.
I doubt this is the whole picture, but it suggests a grim outlook.
This can be reversed - but only in a legal regulated market.
Interesting post and thanks for sharing that.... I don’t think society has a clue of how potent this legal marijuana is and few people understand or even show interest in the potential impact on mental health.
Liquor has a much higher level of the drug alcohol than does beer; what of it?
My doctor and I recently kind of had this discussion. I take Tramadol for back pain and I told him....if I could smoke pot for the pain instead I would. I can’t. It makes me Exorcist sick. He said that’s because it’s not the same stuff we smoked a little of when we were young. Now half a puff would be like smoking a whole joint when we were young.