I watched this development personally in 25 years of working as an EMS first responder. Pot is obviously associated with increased mental illness. I have been ridiculed right here in River City for making this observation for many, many years. Booze are bad; pot is worse.
You’ll get ridiculed here on FR, too, but I noticed that decades ago when I watched some bright, ambitious, attractive friends of mine drop out of college and turn into pot heads who were just looking for their next drink, their next hit, and their next guy.
You are not allowed to insult pot, may peace be upon it.
Potheads are the most annoying. Drinks and tweakers won’t preach to you that their drug is ultimate solution to the ills of the world. Potheads become dope evangelists all too often. They aren’t addicted, oh no. They just use it every day because it brings nirvana and you should smoke it too.