Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence

Imprimis ^ | Jan 2019 | Alex Berenson

[familyop]

Bum fights between potheads and pothead attacks against non-criminals do happen around us every day. Soon enough, everyone will see those incidents for what they are.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Dope heads ALWAYS defend their beloved dope.

[varyouga]

There are studies that show schizophrenics and bipolar people are 300-500% more likely to be tobacco users. Yet they do not make the false reach that tobacco *caused* their illness. It simply means mentally ill are more likely to abuse drugs as a way of dealing with their illness.

Complete propoganda piece and not a single twin study with cannabis has confirmed any of this. With abuse of alcohol and every drug on the pharmacy shelf, they have repeatedly proven direct damage in any set of identical twins. There are no cries for banning or limiting people’s use of alcohol.

Alcohol and OTC drugs of abuse like cough syrup still remain sold like candy including most 24 hour car rest areas. A doctor can prescribe psychoactive drugs that are proven to have side effects like sleep driving/murder. They can prescribe meth to your child. There are no roadside tests for these OTC and Rx drugs that are FAR more impairing than cannabis.

This proves the government’s cries of “it’s for your safety” are complete and utter bullsqueeze.

The only motive behind cannabis prohibition is profit and preaching to voters who bought the “safety” BS

[jmacusa]

Haven’t got time for the bullshit. Frankly, after decades of listening to this Prohibitionist bullshit I’m fed up with marijuana prohibition. And I’ve been sober for 29 years. I’m just fed up with the government waging to what amounts to a domestic Vietnam when it comes to “The War On Drugs’’.

[jmacusa]

Does that include alcohol? Alcohol is made from grains . And fruit.

[jmacusa]

What has an issue of sovereign immunity(the 11th. Amendment) have to do with weed?

[jmacusa]

Are you speaking from experience?

[jmacusa]

Plenty of people don’t drink or do drugs and shouldn’t be within a hundred miles of kids. Joe Biden is an example.

[mad_as_he$$]

Drugs and the WOD are a very big business. Don’t look for a change anytime soon.

[jmacusa]

Indeed they are. Very much big business. It’s a money problem really. Drugs are a commodity. That means money. When you have a problem that involves money you get control of the money. Get control of the money and you get control of the problem.

[gundog]

"Natural" hemp is Cannabis ruderalis. It is low in THC, high in CBDs and has a taller, straighter growth habit more conducive to long fibers for rope production. . C. sativa and C. indica are also sources of fiber and food, but are more widely cultivated because of their intoxicating properties.

[jmacusa]

I threatened once to bash my girlfriends brains out with a fireplace poker if she didn't stop hiding my booze.

[northislander]

unlikely, but anything is possible in internet fantasy world

[Dandy]

I did.

[ThanhPhero]

The only effective treatment for depression is sunshine or the sunshine substitute vitamin D3. I have seen it work on three people, two manic depressives, one of them severe and progressive and one other with clinical depression. All were "night people" and got little sunshine in their lives. Another lady started D3 supplements and stopped taking Methadone a month later and has no more depression and no more drug problem (6 years on). AND none of them have had any flu or colds since they started getting sunshine and/or D3 daily.
I induced a Vietnamese friend to take D3 which I sent her for a year because she had flu almost constantly. She was also manic depressive. The problem was due to the fact that VN women hide their skin altogether from the sun as they have heard from their mothers since they were born. "Don't let the sun touch your skin or you will turn black anl never get a husband." She stopped getting sick and her Manic depressive cycles which had been getting progressively worse to the point that her family knew that she was destined to be a suicide. It is not terribly uncommon among VN women. She straightened out the M/D within a month and I then convinced her that the D3 was just sunshine in a pill so she started going out bare armed in the daytime. She is quite normal and has a husband and two kids now.
There is some loss to Trang's loss of the M/D. She no longer writes long long letters that were literary gems when she was on a down cycle.

[ThanhPhero]

The only effective treatment for depression is sunshine or the sunshine substitute vitamin D3. I have seen it work on three people, two manic depressives, one of them severe and progressive and one other with clinical depression. All were "night people" and got little sunshine in their lives. Another lady started D3 supplements and stopped taking Methadone a month later and has no more depression and no more drug problem (6 years on). AND none of them have had any flu or colds since they started getting sunshine and/or D3 daily.
I induced a Vietnamese friend to take D3 which I sent her for a year because she had flu almost constantly. She was also manic depressive. The problem was due to the fact that VN women hide their skin altogether from the sun as they have heard from their mothers since they were born. "Don't let the sun touch your skin or you will turn black anl never get a husband." She stopped getting sick and her Manic depressive cycles which had been getting progressively worse to the point that her family knew that she was destined to be a suicide. It is not terribly uncommon among VN women. She straightened out the M/D within a month and I then convinced her that the D3 was just sunshine in a pill so she started going out bare armed in the daytime. She is quite normal and has a husband and two kids now.
There is some loss to Trang's loss of the M/D. She no longer writes long long letters that were literary gems when she was on a down cycle.

[trebb]

“Regular” use of alcohol causes more problems than pot....

[varyouga]

C. Ruderalis is just one of 3 known species of cannabis and all are found in the wild.

Ruderalis is the smallest plant and lowest THC content but the only one to flower independent of sun quantity. Growers have created hybrids with Ruderalis genes that are quicker to flower known as “autoflower”

[American in Israel]

There is none so blind as those who refuse to see. Try walking the streets of any major liberal city wading through the litter and homeless camps and repeat as a mantra the rate of schizophrenia is not rising, the rate of schizophrenia is not rising...

[NobleFree]

wait till it is endemic in our youth, our police, our military, or DOCTORS.....

I won't hold my breath - legalizing states have seen at most a modest bump in use.

and perhaps the biggest danger with weed as opposed to alcohol is that everyone can tell when someone is plastered, and they can avoid being in the car with them....not so much with pot heads.....

If they're less obviously incapacitated, that would mean they're better drivers. And I doubt your claim anyway - in my observation, a seasoned drinker can carry themselves well although unable to drive safely.