Posted on 07/07/2022 5:17:08 AM PDT by T Ruth
You don’t need to be a psychiatrist to know that the Highland Park shooter is sick in the head.
His evil act is unfathomable, but he does fit a familiar pattern of mass killers: alienated young male stoners who appear to be in the grip of a distinctively American madness.
Those who knew the 21-year-old suspect, Robert Crimo III, say he habitually smoked cannabis, a habit he appeared to share with young mass shooters, including at Uvalde, Dayton, Parkland and Aurora.
Obviously weed didn’t make them commit their evil acts, but it may have scrambled their brains enough for empathy to take a holiday.
As the country rushes headlong into the embrace of Big Weed, we need to heed the warning signs, not least in the scientific literature which increasingly shows that cannabis triggers psychosis, and in the emergency rooms where mentally ill kids are the living proof of its harms.
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[A New York newspaper] last month warned of the high potency of cannabis products in the newly deregulated legal market and the potentially harmful effects to young brains: “Psychosis, Addiction, Chronic Vomiting: As Weed Becomes More Potent, Teens Are Getting Sick”.
THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, 20 years ago was at about 4% potency, but today’s Big Weed products are close to 100%.
We have known for at least 15 years that cannabis use can increase the risk of psychosis in susceptible people by about 40%, according to the medical journal Lancet.
A study last year of 204,000 people aged 10-24 in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s pediatrics publication found that cannabis use and abuse is associated with depression, bipolar disorder and increased risk of suicide.
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Now do Zoloft. Tucker listed off all the prescription drugs most of these shooters were on. Could be a combo of both pot and scripts. Will JAMA do a study on Big Pharma drugs' affects on the same age group? Doubtful.
Some Zoloft side effects: manic episodes - racing thoughts, increased energy, unusual risk-taking behavior
Prozac: mood or behavior changes, anxiety, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, or if you feel impulsive, irritable, agitated, hostile, aggressive, restless, hyperactive (mentally or physically), more depressed
Celexa: new or worse depression or anxiety, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, or if you feel impulsive, irritable, agitated, hostile, aggressive, restless, more active or talkative, or have thoughts about suicide or hurting yourself.
Same with all the rest. Sudden mood changes, impulsive, irritable, hostile, aggressive, restless, more depressed.
This Highland Park guy went from depressed/suicidal to hostile/aggressive as per police reports. Wanted to kill himself and then later, wanted to kill everyone else.
Messed up family, messed up culture, school and everyone else telling males, especially white males that their the scourge of the planet. Now they're feeling life is cruel and useless so lets' stick them on some psyche meds.
There is a far stronger statistical correlation of abusing cigarattes and schizophrenia but those studies are not biased enough to to falsely say cigarettes “may have caused” it.
See the actual twin study in my last post that tested true CAUSATION and found nothing changed in a twin from abusing cannabis. Yet even mild use of alcohol showed brain damage by 24
Even suggested it to a police officer friend. He did not agree. "That's street talk" was his response.
Media: Smoking Tobacco is bad
Media: Smoking Weed is good, should be legal
Me: Lighting ANY substance, even cardboard and inhaling the vapors is industrial strength stupid. You get what you deserve.
It doesn’t have to be combusted to be used. There are vapor pens, edibles, etc. if he’s going to use it, at least switch to one of those.
‘Obviously weed didn’t make them commit their evil acts, but it may have scrambled their brains enough for empathy to take a holiday.’
and it may not have, right, Miranda...?
gotta love all these weed commentators that have never experienced the substance itself; very much like lunatic teetotallers who bullied the country into the Volstead Act proudly flaunted their blinding ignorance...
My beautiful, handsome smart as a whip son started smoking weed at age 14 and turned into a rageful sulking high school drop out who is now isolated from the rest of us and basically nonfunctional. He is on the mental health radar. There was no help to be had. I am a lawyer and I spoke to lawyers, judges, mental health professionals, police officers, crisis counselors. My ex is general counsel for a hospital. He spoke to hospital administrators, lawyers, police officers, psychologists etc. There is no help to be had. The families are left to their own devices to deal with these kids. And yes, marijuana is a gateway drug. My other children “turned out” beautifully, praise God. It is heartbreaking and I pray for my son daily and I pay his bills. I don’t want him in prison or under a bridge.
Drove him right to Burger King™ for a Whopper™
My son also does not live with me because I was afraid of him and I had clients to represent. He was too disruptive to the household. He lives in a house he owns, pretty basic, that I pay for. Otherwise he would be evicted I am sure. There is no mental health care in this country. A national embarrassment.
Reefer wipes out your conscience before the age of 26 and maybe after.
Well, it looks like old movies like REEFER MADNESS may have actually been onto something!
Very sorry to hear about your son.
Interesting point.
‘My beautiful, handsome smart as a whip son started smoking weed at age 14 and turned into a rageful sulking high school drop out...’
and what about all the high school kids who smoked weed and didn’t turn out like that...? stories of teenagers doing things that are socially frowned upon are legion, and they always will be...forbidden fruit and all that sort of thing...
cannabis use is extremely prevalent in the upper school grades and colleges; you would be hard pressed to find a successful profession that is not peopled by those who have consumed weed at some point in their lives....
‘Reefer wipes out your conscience before the age of 26 and maybe after.’
you know this through experience, right...?
I realize lots of kids smoke weed. In my day we didn’t start til college—I have no idea, maybe he was predisposed to schizophrenia, maybe the weed stopped his brain developing, maybe, maybe, maybe....maybe because his paternal grandmother had schizophrenia... who the hell knows? I do know this however, our mental health “system” in this county is in a shambles, there is no help to be had. It’s a national embarrassment.
An observation; I think the social acceptance of recreational drug use has contributed more than the use of prescribed psychoactive drug use.
I think in the spectrum of psychological societal behavior in child-teen-adult populations there’s a threshold where on the right-hand side going right ranges from barely coping with life to fully engaged and life answers to you. On the left-hand side moving left there’s almost coping to psychotic. I think recreational drug use shifts population numbers to the left by moving that threshold\crossover point to the right. In other words, it increases the population of those with “behavioral problems”. Throw in prescribed psychotropic drugs for behavior and the problem is inadvertently made worse.
I have no data to back up my argument, the working hypothesis just comes anecdotal stories and personal observation. I do notice there are an increasing number of studies being published that either imply or back my observations.
THC is a chemical. It doesn’t care about your politics, or what you think about it, or what someone said about it 30 years ago. And it is present in far greater concentration in current products than what was available in the hippie days. These are simple empirical facts, based on chemical analysis and measurement. As to psychotropics, I suspect the interaction of THC and psychiatric drugs is often an accident waiting to happen.
Stupid politicians now have enabled degenerate millions to smoke that crap. And because of (degenerate, corrupt and incompetent) politicians, it's going to bite us. Big time. Fools. All of them. Stoners and politicians.
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