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How Weed Became the New OxyContin
The Tablet ^ | 30 Aug2022 | Leighton Woodhoouse

Posted on 09/04/2022 5:00:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are helping market high-potency, psychosis-inducing THC products as your mother’s ‘medical marijuana’

{Dr. Libby Stuyt], a recently retired addiction psychiatrist in Pueblo, Colorado, treated patients with severe drug dependency. Typically, that meant alcohol, heroin, and methamphetamines. But about five years ago, she began to see something new.

“I started seeing people with the worst psychosis symptoms that I have ever seen,” she told me. “And the worst delusions I have ever seen.”

These cases were even more acute than what she’d seen from psychotic patients on meth. Some of the delusions were accompanied by “severe violence.” But these patients were coming up positive only for cannabis. Stuyt wasn’t alone: Health care professionals throughout Colorado and all over the country were seeing similar episodes.

Ben Cort, who runs an addiction recovery center in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, watched a young man jump up on the table in the emergency department and strip naked, claiming he was the God of thunder and threatening to kill everyone in the room, including two police officers. A collegiate athlete Cort worked with also had a psychotic episode and was shot five times by the police with a beanbag gun before he was subdued. In Los Angeles County, Blue Stohr, a psychiatric social worker, had a patient who climbed a 700-foot crane and considered jumping off of it, not because he was suicidal but because he thought he was in a computer simulation, like The Matrix.

Those patients, too, were high only on cannabis.

(Excerpt) Read more at tabletmag.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cannabis; mrleroy
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1 posted on 09/04/2022 5:00:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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The new Climate Change scamdemic is here! Hide your women and children. Sit the family down now to a showing of the 1936 “Reefer Madness”. Just one puff and yer’ hooked. Guaranteed.


2 posted on 09/04/2022 5:04:33 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Vote NOW!! to repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics like your life depends on it.)
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To: Rummyfan

I’m not qualified to comment on the issue of psychosis.

And maybe I’m just a grumpy old guy.

But lately I see a lot of people struggling to buy things in stores. How do I push this cart? Do they keep the meat in the produce section? Do I put things on the conveyor belt? How does my credit card fit in this machine? How does money work? What? Who? I don’t know?

I’m assuming that at least some of these fools are using cannabis.


3 posted on 09/04/2022 5:08:03 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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4 posted on 09/04/2022 5:12:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Rummyfan

The left has been pushing cannabis for at least 60 years, they want people to leave the running of the world to them, so welfare, pot, and all the sex distractions they can smother the population’s thinking with, the better for them.


5 posted on 09/04/2022 5:13:02 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Rummyfan

Close to true and I grow Weed. You can overuse it.


6 posted on 09/04/2022 5:13:33 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: Rummyfan

FDD/USDA regulations on potency is the next logical step.


7 posted on 09/04/2022 5:14:10 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Rummyfan

Because meth clears out of the body more quickly.


8 posted on 09/04/2022 5:15:25 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: LibWhacker

Haha! 👍


9 posted on 09/04/2022 5:23:37 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: Rummyfan

Super Weed,
Yup.


10 posted on 09/04/2022 5:25:14 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: LibWhacker

Thumbs up!


11 posted on 09/04/2022 5:29:25 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! Fuhrer Biden is supported my MSM & DC.)
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To: Rummyfan

How many fingers am I holding up?


12 posted on 09/04/2022 5:29:40 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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13 posted on 09/04/2022 5:37:49 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: LibWhacker

Perfecto


14 posted on 09/04/2022 5:42:37 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Rummyfan

That’s one vice I have steered clear of in my life.


15 posted on 09/04/2022 5:43:05 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: Rummyfan

This stuff isn’t your 70s sinsemilla, let alone Mexican.


16 posted on 09/04/2022 5:44:20 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Rummyfan

Cami is induced psychosis is not something new, however in the past it generally too years and years of high use to happen… now that they have bred higher abs more potent Mary Jane it happens much sooner.

Have a friend who’s daughter is now completely psychotic due to drug use, primarily weed….

So sad to watch all the potential thrown away…


17 posted on 09/04/2022 5:47:04 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Rummyfan

Heard it before.
https://youtu.be/yXtumnTN6zg


18 posted on 09/04/2022 5:54:46 PM PDT by Fairhairedboy (MAGA)
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To: Rummyfan

Anyone else notice how homelessness became much worse since the legalization of Marijuana? Remember, that first, it was legalized for medicinal purposes.


19 posted on 09/04/2022 5:55:37 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: BipolarBob

Take a look at you local high school and the zombies who took the cannabis gummies that morning. Have the cannabis sodas also. Someone making lots of money drugging the youth of America


20 posted on 09/04/2022 5:56:25 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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