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What a drag: Older pot smokers trigger surge in demand for mental-health services
WND ^ | 01/23/2022 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 01/24/2022 4:27:49 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski

A psychiatrist who has analyzed National Health Service data in the United Kingdom is warning that older users of marijuana are triggering a huge surge in demand for mental health services.

The Christian Institute explained Dr. Tony Rao confirmed an "astonishing" 777% increase in people over the age of 55 accessing those mental health services "due to addition to the Class B drug…"

Rao cited statistics from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities which confirmed the number of over-55s at treatment for cannabis addiction was 374 in 2005-06. The most recent statistics, from 2020-21, revealed 3,279 cases.

He explained, "It is still regarded as a recreational drug with little awareness of the harm associated with its use. … There is a cohort of people over the age of 55 who grew up in quite a permissive culture with a lack of harm awareness of substances."

Now, those users were moving into the mental health service programs with problems including depressing and anxiety from their cannabis addictions.

The support group Marijuana Anonymous said in a report in the U.K. Times that it had seen a surge in those "older" users at its meetings. Their "prolonged use," the report said, "has created more mental health issues and I think we can correlate that with the influx of older people seeking help..."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: marijuana; pot; ransomtoke; smellslikefreedom; smokers; sorosagenda; thcparanoia
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Now that CoVID ‘spikes’ are in a lot of people’s brains, are previous studies of cannabis effects germane? Cannabis seemed to have a deleterious effect on CoVID in vitro, IIRC.


61 posted on 01/25/2022 9:41:05 AM PST by RideForever (One of the CoVID naturally immune control group)
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To: Does so

“In their defense, MJ could be “laced” with other substances; unfortunately, it’s no different from today...”

Illegal MJ is still sometimes laced, legal MJ is not - just as illegal alcohol sometimes has contaminants while legal alcohol doesn’t.


62 posted on 01/25/2022 10:43:08 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Jan_Sobieski

"Peace, love, and rock-n-roll, dudes!"


63 posted on 01/25/2022 10:46:46 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Fauci is a despicable little turd)
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To: NobleFree

Colorado:

Marijuana is the most common drug found in the toxicology of teenagers who have committed suicide. Between 2014 and 2018, the proportion of suicides under the influence of marijuana has increased from 14 to 23%.

Of teenagers aged 15-19 who committed suicide in 2018, 37% tested positive for marijuana (of the two thirds whose toxicology information was available). The trend appears to be exacerbated by the growing potency of the drug, which causes irreversible damage to teenagers’ health.

https://rtd.rt.com/stories/effects-of-marijuana-legalisation/


64 posted on 01/25/2022 6:35:04 PM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes...War Finds YOU!)
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To: Does so

“Between 2014 and 2018, the proportion of suicides under the influence of marijuana has increased from 14 to 23%.”

It also increased in nonlegalizing states; “Liberalized marijuana policies do not appear to have influenced increases in marijuana-positive toxicologies among youth” - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-23139-053


65 posted on 01/27/2022 10:50:13 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree

Yeah, Marijuana will never affect our youth and their performance in our military services:

“The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, owned by candy mogul Mars Inc., filed lawsuits in May against five companies for selling cannabis-infused edibles that look like common candy products, including Skittles, Starburst and Life Savers”.


66 posted on 01/27/2022 11:18:39 AM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes...War Finds YOU!)
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To: Does so

“The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company, owned by candy mogul Mars Inc., filed lawsuits in May against five companies for selling cannabis-infused edibles that look like common candy products, including Skittles, Starburst and Life Savers”.

Cannabis makes one commit intellectual property infringement?


67 posted on 01/27/2022 3:55:11 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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