"Whether to use cannabis, or any drug, is a personal decision. Whether cannabis should be legal is a political issue. But its precise legal status is far less important than making sure that anyone who uses it is aware of its risks. Most cigarette smokers don’t die of lung cancer. But we have made it widely known that cigarettes cause cancer, full stop. Most people who drink and drive don’t have fatal accidents. But we have highlighted the cases of those who do.
We need equally unambiguous and well-funded advertising campaigns on the risks of cannabis. 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.
But before we can do anything, we—especially cannabis advocates and those in the elite media who have for too long credulously accepted their claims—need to come to terms with the truth about the science on marijuana. That adjustment may be painful. But the alternative is far worse, as the patients at Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Institute—and their victims—know."
Saw my link, didya?
This is where decades of poisoning the well with WoD reefer madness propaganda comes into play.
Ain’t a damn thing that can come out about it that can be believed at this point. Including this article.
Alcohol is worse. I’ve seen it.
A good article
And a refreshing alternative to the “drugs are personal liberty” contingent.
A large swath of druggies in the America (regardless of what other politics they are interested in) react to any cautionary words about marijuana with hysterical rants about “Reefer Madness! Reefer Madness! Reefer Madness!”.
Just like with leftists on ANY subject, rational conversations are impossible.
For your interest.
This BS trope has been published here half a dozen times.
And has been debunked each time.
Crazy people should not smoke pot. Everyone knows that already. They shouldn’t drink whiskey or take ANY mind altering substance.
Because they are CRAZY!
To all the Libertarians, on this board and elsewhere ...
Meet my Big Fat “I TOLD YOU SO!”
So marijuana causes schizophrenia?
No, that's correlation-is-causation junk science.
But its precise legal status is far less important than making sure that anyone who uses it is aware of its risks.
That I'm on board with - failure to disclose known risks is fraud.
So the pro pot argument is that crazy people shouldn’t smoke pot, but it’s ok for everyone else. So anyone just a bit off kilter, pot sends them off the deep end. But the perfectly sane, if that’s possible, are immune. Sounds a little hazy.
I read the article but it’s not clear on whether pot caused the crazy, or people with the crazy are trying to medicate it with the pot. Further studies will hopefully give a more clear picture.
I’d be curious to know if the number of people diagnosed with the crazy has increased as much as pot use has increased.
Recreational Chemistry is for losers - bump for later...
People with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are 300-500% more likely to be cigarette smokers.
These findings do not mean cigarettes CAUSED their mental illness. It only means the mentally ill are more likely to abuse drugs
If you smoke a joint (or a cigarette), just be downwind of me. They both stink. Smoke them where I can’t smell them.