Posted on 04/15/2016 9:55:27 AM PDT by familyop
The call for action from scientists in the UK, US, Europe and Australia reflects a growing consensus among experts that frequent cannabis use can increase the risk of psychosis...In the UK, cannabis is the most popular illegal drug, and according to Public Health England data, more young people enter treatment centres for help with cannabis than any other drug, alcohol included.
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Sorry about your rough time with the condition and prescription. Drive on, when the time comes, though! You can do it! Just focus and keep asking yourself, “How do I feel? Is it that bad. Can I handle it?” Yes!
I take the CBD part (actually derived from hemp) at times for medical purposes and it does have a calming effect. There is no THC. Marijuana, even medical varieties, do have THC and are a whole different ball game.
-— If I ever wanted an update on any conspiracy theory they were my source.
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I worked next to a pot-head in the 70’s, installing fire sprinklers on a cherry picker with him for 12 hours a day..
To amuse myself and make the day endurable, I would ask him about UFO’s, Bell Helicopters, Nixon, Star Trek and things like that.
He had quite an interesting take on many things.
But again, chicken or the egg. Smoked dope because he was a whack job or did smoking dope make him a whack job?
Great post.
Working overnight on Staten Island.
but should be doing more.
self pity and laziness are the biggest obstacles to healing.
No. Really? Who would have guessed?
Stoner? For no reason?
Have seen that too with heavy pot use, especially if they combine it with alcohol. Sudden outbursts type of thing, as if they are 'uncorked'. So many variables. .
What could go wrong?
Thank you. I forgot a question mark, so here it is again for anyone who wants to try.
Just focus and keep asking yourself, “How do I feel? Is it that bad? Can I handle it?” Yes!
It’s far more terrible for some than others of course, but maybe that will help someone along with other measures. Wish I could offer more than that and a prayer.
I agree somewhatwith the chicken or egg enigma. I just noticed that pot smokers and conspiracy theories went hand-in-hand, still do. Walk into a room and whisper “illuminati” and you see what I mean.
Remember that stupid ad with an egg frying, "This is your brain on drugs... any questions?"
Yah! Can I have mine scrambled? LMAO!!!
My own view is that pot calms people down when they’re using it. But after they come down, they’re different people.
Alcohol is by far the most destructive substance there is.
>We’ve forgotten to look into the essential question about whether an item can be a good medicine even if some people use it for bad purposes...
that’s a REALLY important question.
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You mean like the smokers/drinkers (’good) as compared to the pill poppers/weed (’bad’) or adrenaline junkies/extreme sports/runners (’?good?’) or ...
Even with the abuse in the past, morphine, cocaine, etc. were a part of doctors bags and house-hold medicine cabinets.
Course, it only took the Jazz musicians (in this instance) to be asking, “Where the white women be at?” for the unconstitutional/unauthorized/illegal WoD to begin, like ‘gun control’....those damn blacks (the other word being ‘taboo’ these days) /semi-S
Hysterical...
Benzodiazopine addiction is far worse than heroine and the withdrawal can kill you.
Start tapering off now. Been there.
Pot and booze both have many dangers and bad health effects. Both are the direct cause many deaths every year, including innocent deaths of non-users of both.
Both should be outlawed.
cant. only thing that controls tremors and severe muscle spasms from head injury.
they’ll take their toll on my body, but after about 18 meds, they are the only ones that control them.
if they take 10 years off, at least I wont suffer the rest of the years. None of us are here forever anyway. .
The don’t call it dope for nuttin’!
I’ve had so many ahem “discussions” with pro-dope people I know all their excuses and so-called arguments. The vitueraptiveness from dope heads towards those who are not in favor of “let’s all smoke dope whee” is extreme.
I guess the pro-dope thing will have to run its course until it becomes in-your-face obviious to even the dope heads that it is bad stuff, ruins lives, ruins brains, ruins conscience, ruins persnal integrity and EBT cards and SSI stop and people will have to actually work to eat.
Oh well.
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