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Minnesota Killer was a Pothead - (liberal MSM deliberately ignoring these facts)
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| APRIL 20, 2005
| CLIFF KINCAID
Posted on 04/20/2005 9:00:26 PM PDT by 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."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Minnesota
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posted on
04/20/2005 9:00:27 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
To: CHARLITE
First Prozac, now pot...I thought the MSM established early on that it was the gun that killed all those people. /sarcasm
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posted on
04/20/2005 9:16:12 PM PDT
by
PistolPaknMama
(Will work for cool tag line.)
To: PistolPaknMama
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.
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posted on
04/20/2005 9:22:24 PM PDT
by
scab4faa
(My mom says I'm cool.)
To: CHARLITE
Too bad he wasn't an alcoholic; as everyone knows no murders have ever been committed by anyone who was drunk.
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: CHARLITE
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.
To: april15Bendovr
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.
To: CHARLITE
Indeed, there's evidence that pot can trigger mental illness
Baloney...Post your "evidence"!
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posted on
04/20/2005 10:24:36 PM PDT
by
mugs99
(Restore the Constitution)
To: april15Bendovr
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"!
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posted on
04/20/2005 10:26:45 PM PDT
by
mugs99
(Restore the Constitution)
To: Strategerist
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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10
posted on
04/20/2005 10:28:40 PM PDT
by
mugs99
(Restore the Constitution)
To: CHARLITE
Is this from the Onion? It's pretty funny.
11
posted on
04/20/2005 10:30:25 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
(Jeb Pilate and the Republican Congress: Stood by while someone died)
To: CHARLITE

"Hello. Please take me seriously even after you read this article."
Bwahahaha
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posted on
04/20/2005 10:33:29 PM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
(Jeb Pilate and the Republican Congress: Stood by while someone died)
To: april15Bendovr
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.
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posted on
04/20/2005 10:35:34 PM PDT
by
ashtanga
To: mugs99
You cant convince a pothead of anything when their first instinct is to protect supply and Habit.
To: april15Bendovr
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.
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posted on
04/21/2005 4:30:27 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: april15Bendovr
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.
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posted on
04/21/2005 4:52:53 AM PDT
by
Rudder
To: april15Bendovr
you are just another pro WOD JBT spewing nonsensical rhetoric. go polish your boots.
17
posted on
04/21/2005 6:57:20 AM PDT
by
gdc61
To: CHARLITE
Pot made him kill people? A whole new chapter in the "Reefer Madness" book.
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posted on
04/21/2005 6:59:16 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
(Christ is risen.)
To: CHARLITE
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.
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:04:04 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Host organism for the State parasite)
To: CHARLITE
Do you seriously believe this bilge, or are you posting it for hilarity?
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posted on
04/21/2005 7:29:56 AM PDT
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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