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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Ya, what this world needs is normalization of 3 more “it’s no worse thans” and then we’ll have a much improved culture......
By your logic, isn't what we need 1 fewer “it’s no worse than”, that is, a return to alcohol Prohibition?
And liquor is several times stronger than beer; what of it?
Not stating harms is not the same as claiming harmlessness. As I have pointed out to you on multiple occasions, NORML explicitly denies harmlessness: "Use of cannabis, to the extent that it impairs health, personal development or achievement, is abuse, to be resisted by responsible cannabis users." - http://norml.org/marijuana/personal/item/principles-of-responsible-use
And here they are discussing the harms of marijuana: https://norml.org/library/cannabis-mental-health-and-context-the-case-for-regulation. I guess you didn't look very hard.
I call BS. Quote one.
The author’s conclusion: educate.
“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.”
Marijuana is bad for the health? So are alcohol, tobacco, and fast food - should those not be legal?
As for Societal Impact, the article hilariously cites "Colorado Drug Overdoses Up in Almost Every County and Ahead of National Average" - which says not one word about marijuana.
Your logic wheel is STILLL broken.
Ya, what this world needs is normalization of 3 more “it’s no worse thans” and then we’ll have a much improved culture......
By your logic, isn't what we need 1 fewer “it’s no worse than”, that is, a return to alcohol Prohibition?
Your logic wheel is STILLL broken.
Your evasions are still stupid and cowardly.
There are a fixed number of addictive personalities in the world.
As long as alcohol is available, all addicts will turn to alcohol.
When new addictive drugs become available, alcoholics will simply substitute the new drug for alcohol, and there are no knew addicts added to the population.
And if you think that's a stupid conclusion, then you must be positing that the addition of a new population of addicts in the world is just fine, because "its no worse than...."
Stoner logic is similar to lefty logic?
When you ASSUME you make an ASS of U not ME. I never made any of the claims you ascribe to me, nor are those the only possible basis for questioning the claim that legalization will increase addiction.
And none of that has anything to do with what I actually posted - which is that if adding legal substances no worse than alcohol is bad as you implied, then it follows that subtracting such a substance, namely alcohol itself, must be good.
Since you assumed I'm for prohibition.
No, I deduced it from your words: 'Ya, what this world needs is normalization of 3 more “it’s no worse thans” and then we’ll have a much improved culture......' If that's not support for substance bans, what was your point?
Hospital sends her home with Xanax to cure her weed addiction...
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Decades ago, my brother (teenaged at the time) was arrested asking an undercover cop for a light, for a joint that was so weak that if you smoked the whole thing as hard as you could, holding in the smoke of every hit with all your might, you’d probably get dizzy from holding your breath so much.
He was given probation and a HUGE bottle of Thorazine. I took one of those Thorazine. It knocked me on my ass for a solid day and left me with red-soaked blood-shot eyes.
I don’t know much about Xanax but I heard it’s pretty bad.
Are all psychiatrists quacks?
Had you missed that point up until now?
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