Posted on 12/16/2025 10:13:29 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Marijuana causes psychosis and does more harm than good.
I’ve personally watched it stop seizures first hand many times. I’ve always watched it stop a seizure before it even started. Until you see something like that first hand, you’re ignorant as to the medical effects and uses it has.
This has been known for decades, but the cannabis users have always dismissed this by using anecdotal examples of grandma and her glaucoma. We all remember when they claimed cannabis was just going to be used for medicinal purposes. We all knew it was a lie as it remains a lie. Psychosis, paranoia, and bi-polar have been among the consequences. Cannabis has been a blight on society.
25+ years of regular use and I'm doing fine. I even still vote Republican! I think those that experience psychosis from weed already experienced it or will at one point. Too many long term users alive and well today for it to be the absolute root cause of psychosis. Weak people will always be week people, with or without the weed.
You cannot use the fact that there was no seizure, because someone got high. You cannot prove that a seizure is imminent. I am sure Doctors could with fancy equipment. MJ is a drug, it has benefits that stoners like, it does not have benefits medically.
Duh.....Government’s solution to smoking...patches, gum, vaping, doping...
And there have always been a myriad of other and better treatment options available.
I know someone who uses gummies for both anorexia and anxiety. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn’t. As far as the anxiety relief, it obviously is short term, and is just a bandaid, but because of government interference, his doctors aren’t allowed to prescribe actual anti-anxiety meds, as he is also a chronic pain patient. Of course, those meds are also just bandaids, and highly addictive, as well, so the gummies are a better alternative.
Cannabis has improved my sleep and back pain immensely. The only problem is that it doesn’t help with my weight loss goals.
so much effort to ban tobacco smoking then pot smoking is legalized?
It makes no sense to me.
Wow man, like you no, I thot, it wasn’t bad for mi.
Yep, over 50 years here. It’s been great life, self-employed, retired at 60. Complained to doctor about getting forgetful at 76, got brain MRI, came back normal.
5 out of 5 big pharmas approve of this article. I went through months of chemo and MMJ controlled nausea, cramps insomnia, and gave me an appetite. It also spared me from having to take a bunch of meds to control the effects of chemo that had their own side effects.
Studies that are a “review” of “selected” earlier studies are too easy to skew, to get the result you want.
my medical care is of no concern to you
It will help nausea and get rid of a headache. That’s about it.
The dopers all say the same thing:
1 - “it’s controlled, so no good studies have been done” and/or
2 - PHARMA doesn’t want the studies released ‘cause marijuana CURES everything they sell us their poison to control but not cure, dErP!
Without blinking at the mental gymnastics they go through to make those statements.
I personally - in my humble medical opinion - don’t believe MJ to have any repeatable, quantifiable, medical utility.
But, to each his own. Just don’t toke and drive
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