Posted on 02/02/2019 8:52:12 AM PST by yoe
[snip] So I did. The big studies, the little ones, and all the rest. I read everything I could find. I talked to every psychiatrist and brain scientist who would talk to me. And I soon realized that in all my years as a journalist I had never seen a story where the gap between insider and outsider knowledge was so great, or the stakes so high.
I began to wonder why—with the stocks of cannabis companies soaring and politicians promoting legalization as a low-risk way to raise tax revenue and reduce crime—I had never heard the truth about marijuana, mental illness, and violence.
[snip] Almost everything you think you know about the health effects of cannabis, almost everything advocates and the media have told you for a generation, is wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at imprimis.hillsdale.edu ...
Yes, marijuana is addictive to the heavy, chronic user.
Indisputable fact.
Just look at Obama and Trudeau heavy Cannabis users
Look, we can’t stop it without jailing smokers who are our friends and families.
Get on the right side of history, legalization everywhere is coming......manage your high.
Anyone who says marijuana is harmless is delusional.
Two of the 20 year olds were institutionalized for a short time and put on disability.
It's not harmless.
Just want to point out that Alex Berenson is also the author of the John Wells novels. IMO the Wells character is no Jack Reacher or Mitch Rapp but he’s ok.
So I have to give Berenson’s opinion more credibility than “total BS” and “complete and utter nonsense.”
“legalization everywhere is coming”
As certain as the day is long.
It will happen, and it enrages the drug warriors that there is nothing they can do about it.
Overturning prohibition gave lots of people conniptions too.
“It’s not harmless. “
No, it’s not.
But neither is prohibition.
Nonsense. There is absolutely no accepted medical evidence to support that assertion.
Just do a little Googling—there are TONS of studies regarding marijuana psychosis.
“Almost everything you think you know about the health effects of cannabis, almost everything advocates and the media have told you for a generation, is wrong.” From the article.
Starting out as a young person who didn’t care much about it, But I saw this first hand during the 25 years that I was working on the streets responding to people with problems. It was eye opening. This article is dead on! I get shot down every time I share my observations here. Marijuana causes huge problems especially for younger people.
As far as whether it should be legal. For people under the age of 60 it probably should not be legal. It actually is very detrimental for younger people especially to their mental health, but causes some pretty bad health problems as well.
I know a bunch of people over 60 who smoke or eat marijuana all the time. If they want to spend the final years of their life stoned that is their business and I really could not care less.
This is an excellent article, but everything in it has been known to medical professionals for years. One thing to make clear: disorders like schizophrenia, manic depression, and true bipolar disorder are, primarily, MEDICAL disorders that display mentally due to damage to the brain or endocrine system. These can be successfully treated with medication given under supervision.
The rest of the article is true- no matter what the little brain-deads responding negatively to it say. Weed is NOT harmless, it IS mind-altering and DOES weaken one’s will when it comes to more dangerous drugs. AND it makes you stupid. What better way to cement their power than for “progressive” politicians to support its legalization. People who can’t think are nothing but fodder.
Meth, heroin, PCP for everyone, right Beavis?
Do you use? And if you do, how would YOU know if they are mentally ill or not?
FTA.....
Instead, we are now in the worst of all worlds. Marijuana is legal in some states, illegal in others, dangerously potent, and sold without warnings everywhere
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Can anyone argue with that? It won’t be long now before marijuana will be on the same level as beer and alcohol. Heavily regulated. Heavily taxed. Strict nanny state social controls. Excessive and punitive laws outlining usage and control. And harsh punishment for violating these state and federal mandates.
Does anyone think we’re better off now then we will be in the future?
“Adults” know better than to use this crap. Between booze, pills and weed, we are suffering a dearth of “adults”.
‘Zat so? And just where are the factual misconceptions here? Judging from your response, I assume you have better knowledge of the topic. I, for one, would love to know. Please share.
I know of four cases of apparent schizophrenia among friends of mine kids. All ended in suicide. Pot use was a big part of the problem. Cause or self medication? We will never know.
They don’t have to anymore. It’s a hell of a lot stronger now than when I first started college in 1969. Besides, they are too busy cutting cocaine and meth with fentanyl nowadays.
More than money, it’s power. Keep the people stoned and stupid and nothing stands in your way. There is a very dark purpose behind all this legalization nonsense.
We have some delusional hardcore advocates here who attack anyone who says anything negative about marijuana. I started out totally neutral about it; I have a lot of friends family and acquaintances who have been users for many years. Over the years my heavy using acquaintances have all developed similar issues which they all blame things like sugar, gluten, pollution, toxins and even global warming on. But after spending time working on the streets of a big crime ridden city I started to realize the truth early on. 25 years later I have seen more than enough to convince me that it should be made less available not more.
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