These Are Real 'High Crimes'

Townhall.com ^ | May 15, 2019 | Ann Coulter

[NobleFree]

Mercy, that was weak.

[NobleFree]

There are numerous studies demonstrating that marijuana causes permanent brain damage, psychosis and schizophrenia.

I call BS. Let's see some links.

Just google “marijuana psychosis,”

I'm not doing your homework for you - when YOU make a claim the burden is on YOU to support it.

you’ll get hundreds of results.

I wouldn't expect any of them to be studies demonstrating that marijuana causes permanent brain damage, psychosis and schizophrenia - as you claimed.

I had some time to kill, so I did your homework for you. The third link from your Google search says this:

'the study doesn't prove causality, cautions Dr. Diana Martinez, a psychiatrist and addiction researcher at Columbia University. "You can't say that cannabis causes psychosis," she says. "It's simply not supported by the data," she says.

'Lisdahl [a clinical neuropsychologist at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee] agrees.'

So sad for you.

[tsomer]

The Fed is a massive, alien pseudopod. It’s composed of many disparate colonies of shape-shifting careerists— in careers that are notable in their absence of delimited technical expertise.

You feel me?

They’ll get their fingers in it somehow. Come to think of it, we may be begging for their intervention when they do. Any cartel south of the border could overwhelm the financial resources of any single state of the union.

I expect you’ll object to this reply for its being vague and unspecific. Despite my best efforts at concealing it, my ignorance on constitutional particulars is apparent. But I hope you’ll appreciate the time invested composing it; I wore the tread completely off my thesaurus.

I almost forget what it was that brought me onto this thread. It was Anne’s report of some atrocious things happening soon after cannabis was ingested. I want people to know— I believe her.

A family member got mixed up with that shit and suffered psychosis. I want people to know how agonizing it is to see someone go through that hell, seemingly inhabited by a demon—frightening and pathetic at the same time—while knowing there is nothing to do but dispense pills prescribed by some doc you’ve never met and hope they do something for the zombie they transformed the demon into. I’m not exaggerating much to say the only thing that could be worse is rabies.

Now here’s something new: the stoners’ insistence that pot is relatively benign may be valid.

I’ve done more reading and more and more it appears SYNTHETIC cannabis was involved. It is everywhere and I’d urge every and all users to assume their weed is contaminated until tried and proven. Don’t let that stuff get inside you.

Here’s what baffles me: why should it exist in the first place, given the availability of the real thing?

[NobleFree]

I strongly doubt the feds will intervene to block states from requiring disclosure of health risks. Are there any existing examples of such federal intervention?

They’ll get their fingers in it somehow.

"Somehow" is plausible - blocking states from requiring disclosure of health risks is not.

I’ve done more reading and more and more it appears SYNTHETIC cannabis was involved. It is everywhere and I’d urge every and all users to assume their weed is contaminated until tried and proven.

Only legalized regulation can stop that; alcohol contamination was a well known phenomenon during Prohibition, but virtually nonexistent in the USA today.

Here’s what baffles me: why should it exist in the first place, given the availability of the real thing?

Because each new synthetic (which while technically cannabinoids, have effects very different from marijuana) is legal until the law catches up.