Posted on 12/26/2019 5:08:08 PM PST by LouieFisk
“A few years ago, it was rare to see a young person enter Caron with marijuana-induced psychosis,” said Garbely. “Now we see it on a regular basis. Older teens and young adults — approximately ages 18 to 26 — are the most impacted. We see a significant misperception about the safety and efficacy of marijuana among our teen and young-adult patient population.”
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best interim treatment is showering every few hours.
Lovely FUD.
Been using cannabis every day since February 2015.
Every aspect of my life has been immensely improved since.
After being unable to work due to depression with psychotic features & severe anxiety for 10+ years it’s a blessing to be symptom free & working 2 jobs.
The pot worked for you pretty much as you expected, then?
What you said is the absolute truth:
“Once they start smoking pot, a pot smoker can’t have a good time without pot. Everything they do for pleasure and entertainment has to involve pot.
It may not be physically addicting but pot smokers become dependent on it find any joy in life.”
It is far more addictive than ever before, and the effect on the immature brain (under about 25 years old) is damaging. I know there will be the usual ignoramuses here spouting their drivel, but the facts need to faced.
The same leftists who want to ban tobacco claim that smoking an unfiltered marijuana cigarette is the most healthy thing in the world (or just behind gay sex and abortion as the things they call healthy).
Bingo! It isn’t the pot that’s different it’s the little snowflakes who can’t even figure out which bathroom to use.
Your story is about the same as me only it was a couple years later.Somewhere around Kona Gold, Thai sticks and really high strains of homegrown pot turned me in to a zombie. It wasn’t fun, and I’d get very inhibited. Cannabis never made me smarter.
I’ve heard the THC levels of the new weed are a few times higher.
“It may not be physically addicting...”
From what pot smokers have told me “I have got to have it,” I would say it is strongly addictive.
AS expected? Please. Trying cannabis was more akin to “There’s no new meds to try. What do we have to lose at this point?” It was pure desperation.
Thanks be to God, cannabis actually treated my symptoms better than any SSRI or mood stabilizers, or Ativan or any of other 2 dozen or more meds I took as directed did.
I still use it as a sleep aid.
That's right. They all say that. Hot showers. The whole thing is weird.
Dave’s not here man
It isn’t quite the same as valium, even though it’s in the same family.
While valium can cause the same addiction or type of addiction that xanax can, xanax is much more effective at it because of it’s much shorter half life in the body.
Good thing alcohol never causes any deaths in teens.
I am well aware of the issues that marijuana causes in developing brains, by killing off cells in critical brain areas. I have seen experts who say that this critical period lasts until about age 30, although I think that most experts agree that brain development continues until about age 25.
I am not aware of much research into the effects on the brains of older users, but am certainly interested in finding out more.
Marijuana is a scourge on society largely because the issues that it causes are glossed over by propponents.
I've had my share of conversations here on FR with marijuana proponents. One vehemently denies that NORML claims that marijuana is completely harmless, even after I report that despite many searches on the NORML website, I cannot find ANY reference to the scientifically documented harms of marijuana use. However, as marijuana is more widely legalized and the harms become more apparent to ordinary people, I have noticed that the adamant proponents of marijuana use are less vocal.
My feeling is that the experimentation into legalizing marijuana is not going to last long, as we learn the lessons that led our ancestors to make it illegal. But the brain damaged users are going to be with us for a long time, and represent a real social problem.
There is no person intoxicated on alcohol who can drive with the same sharp reflexes as a non-drunk. And for some reason, for 100 years, there are still people taking the risk of driving drunk.
If you were smoking leaf a couple of decades ago.
Neither alcohol or cannabis is good for teens or young people. A lot of sex practices are also harmful to one’s health (I just learned about some huge dangers among lesbians recently even). Many sports have huge risk factors. Driving and even flying have their risks.
As long as the person is of age, and society attempts to educate all on the potential risks of these activities, a free society allows people to take risks with their health along their pursuit of happiness.
Geesh...I tend to believe this marijuana thing is fabricated in an effort to push other drugs on people. The pharmas must be ecstatic!!
LSD isn’t toxic. It has plenty of dangerous psychological risks but no physiological effects that could kill you.
It might scare you to death but that’s not the same thing as being toxic.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29408722
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