Minnesota Killer was a Pothead - (liberal MSM deliberately ignoring these facts)

A.I.M.ORG ^ | APRIL 20, 2005 | CLIFF KINCAID

[CHARLITE]

An AP Story that ran in USA Today said that Weise posted information about his own mental state in the months before he killed nine people and himself. But the story failed to note that his comments included favorable references to using marijuana or MJ. Weise said, "MJ is my gal of choice." A March 25 Washington Post article by Blaine Harden and Dana Hedgpeth said Weise had serious mental problems but ignored the pot connection. A March 24 Post article by Ceci Connolly and Dana Hedgpeth described "a deeply disturbed youth who had been treated for depression in a psychiatric ward," was taking the antidepressant Prozac, and had been hospitalized for suicidal tendencies. But the Post story didn't mention his marijuana addiction. The story did wonder "what triggered Jeff Weise's deadly outburst."

Antidepressants have to be studied as a factor. But the Weise rampage may also be linked to marijuana. Indeed, there's evidence that pot can trigger mental illness and heavy users say that it can provoke thoughts of rage, fear and violence.

The BBC recently reported on how scientists at New Zealand's University of Otago had concluded that marijuana smokers are almost twice as likely to suffer schizophrenia and psychosis. The BBC said that the study of potheads suggested this was probably due to chemical changes in the brain which resulted from smoking the drug.

The Newscientist.com recently ran an article http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg18524921.300 by Graham Lawton on the evidence that "for some teenagers, smoking cannabis leads to serious mental health problems in later life, including schizophrenia."

[PistolPaknMama]

First Prozac, now pot...I thought the MSM established early on that it was the gun that killed all those people. /sarcasm

[scab4faa]

The BBC recently reported on how scientists at New Zealand's University of Otago had concluded that marijuana smokers are almost twice as likely to suffer schizophrenia and psychosis

BS.

[Strategerist]

Too bad he wasn't an alcoholic; as everyone knows no murders have ever been committed by anyone who was drunk.

[april15Bendovr]

A lot of potheads don't want people to know that part of withdrawal symptoms is agitation.

The largest percentage of all admissions to adolescent psychiatric programs and the number 1 diagnosis is pot use and Marijuana addiction. Pot is not the harmless innocuous drug everyone thinks it is.

[Strategerist]

There are causality issues however; someone with psychiatric problems may be more likely to self-medicate with pot, rather than pot causing psychiatric problems. Parents will always assert their little angel was fine before he started the pot, even if that's not the case.

That said, about 10% of the population will become seriously addicted to pot; similar to the % of people that use alcohol; genetics largely determines whether that happens.

[mugs99]

Indeed, there's evidence that pot can trigger mental illness

Baloney...Post your "evidence"!
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[mugs99]

The largest percentage of all admissions to adolescent psychiatric programs and the number 1 diagnosis is pot use and Marijuana addiction

Again...Baloney, post your "evidence"!

[mugs99]

That said, about 10% of the population will become seriously addicted to pot; similar to the % of people that use alcohol; genetics largely determines whether that happens.

Have you got a source for that claim?
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[Sir Gawain]

Is this from the Onion? It's pretty funny.

[Sir Gawain]

"Hello. Please take me seriously even after you read this article."

Bwahahaha

[ashtanga]

I would never defend pot use, but I stopped in 1977 when I realized that my new job required a certain clear mindedness. I never missed smoking the stuff, and by the same token I was never relieved to be rid of the habit. It was a totally neutral cessation. The problem with marijuana, as I see it, is that it leads one to associate with people who have no grasp of the King's English. I say this with tongue in cheek, but not too deeply so.

[april15Bendovr]

You cant convince a pothead of anything when their first instinct is to protect supply and Habit.

[Wolfie]

The largest percentage of all admissions to adolescent psychiatric programs and the number 1 diagnosis is pot use and Marijuana addiction.

Horse puckey. The number 1 diagnosis for marijuana treatment is a court order.

[Rudder]

The largest percentage of all admissions to adolescent psychiatric programs and the number 1 diagnosis is pot use and Marijuana addiction.

This is a piece of BUllsh^t, i.e., an outright lie. Shame on you for being so intellecutally dishonest.

[gdc61]

you are just another pro WOD JBT spewing nonsensical rhetoric. go polish your boots.

[Protagoras]

Pot made him kill people? A whole new chapter in the "Reefer Madness" book.

[Skooz]

I was a very heavy pot smoker in high school. The thought of shooting up my classmates never crossed my mind.

All I wanted out of life was a bag of pot and a big package of Chips Ahoy.

No "rage," no "deadly outbursts;" just hanging with my friends getting wasted, eating unreal amounts of munchies, then going to bed.

[William Terrell]

Do you seriously believe this bilge, or are you posting it for hilarity?