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San Diego ER seeing up to 37 marijuana cases a day — mostly psychosis
NY Post ^ | 10/22/2022 | Leighton Woodhouse

Posted on 10/29/2022 9:38:40 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

“One clinical study showed that a moderate dose of pure THC causes psychotic symptoms in about 40% of people who lack a family history of psychosis. If you’re a casual user and your dosage is mild, that likely just means a touch of paranoia,” said neuroscientist Christine Miller, an expert on psychotic disorders.

Thirty-five percent of people who have experienced such symptoms, however, will go on to experience a full psychotic break, according to another study, if they continue their high risk environmental exposure by continuing to use cannabis.

According to multiple studies, for those who have ever suffered a full cannabis-induced psychotic break, the chance that, if you still keep using, you’ll eventually develop permanent schizophrenia is almost 50 percent. That’s a higher conversion rate than amphetamines, opioids or LSD.

But what really makes THC more dangerous than those other drugs, experts say, is that so few people consider it dangerous at all. “We know fentanyl is bad. We know meth is bad,” said Dr. Libby Stuyt, a recently retired addiction psychiatrist in Colorado. “We don’t know that marijuana is bad.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bonglist; whytheycallitdope
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To: thegagline

In WA state I could easily infer that drunks smoke too, and in the same free wheeling way that makes them drunks. How can anyone seperate the two?


101 posted on 10/29/2022 3:16:29 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ("None of the people I know who didn't take take the Jab regrets their decision" ZERO)
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To: wardaddy

That was an interesting take. Sincerely.


102 posted on 10/29/2022 4:01:17 PM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: gundog
I'll continue to abstain.   When I moved five hundred miles away from my old friends that was the end of my childish ways and you can never go home again.   Come to think of it, the only thing I have had in the past two years or more is aspirin tablets.   Besides, at our age, in these times, life itself is a trip, comme ci, comme ça.
103 posted on 10/29/2022 4:30:34 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Right Wing Vegan
..... 37 weed cases a day......

Can't be. Because FR's own drug addicts insist it's safe.

104 posted on 10/29/2022 4:34:39 PM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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To: higgmeister

Same here. I may break down and have some whiskey and a cigar if the midterms go well. I may do it anyway, if it looks like another steal.


105 posted on 10/29/2022 4:47:32 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

...3 or 4 strong gummies...
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I have used Delta 8 & Delta 9 gummies for joint pain. These are 20mg doses. I cut them into 3 or 4 pieces and they help. The effects of even this portion lasts 6-7 hours.

I cannot deal with the levels of a full 20mg. I cannot even imagine taking 60-80 mg at once.

I am a child of the 60s and this stuff is way more potent than it was 60 years ago.


106 posted on 10/29/2022 6:01:21 PM PDT by reformedliberal (Make yourself less available.)
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To: wardaddy

Whaa?

Dude, I haven’t been high since 1977, but reading your post made me feel like I was flashing back to the best/worst acid trip I ever took!

Each of your sentences sort of make sense, but none of them go together. Could you elaborate?


107 posted on 10/29/2022 6:08:07 PM PDT by blu (Bagster's ping on the side oh, and FJB!)
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To: wardaddy

Whatever it is you were on when you wrote that post is much worse than weed.


108 posted on 10/29/2022 6:13:55 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: reformedliberal

I hear you. 6-7 hours is a long time. All edibles seem that way. Smoking is probably the least harmful way it takes so little and doesn’t last so long.


109 posted on 10/29/2022 6:41:12 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: wardaddy

Good summary. Only thing I’d add was the enhanced enjoyment of music.

Long time ago for me. Mostly just beer nowadays, the occasional birthday shot.


110 posted on 10/29/2022 6:52:59 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Bullshit. Complete and total bullshit. Straight out of Harry J. Anslinger’s play book.

Marijuana is often used as a treatment for anxiety disorders.

For four years working in my hospitals ER I've never ONCE saw a patient come in and be treated for ‘’marijuana induced psychosis''. Drunks, meth heads, crack addicts but never anyone bugging out over pot.

111 posted on 10/29/2022 6:57:58 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: LouAvul
Can't be. Because FR's own drug addicts insist it's safe.

Potheads' own art reveals they do know something of their faegget demon drug's true nature lolz

112 posted on 10/30/2022 7:27:23 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: LouAvul
Harmless "recreation" and "medicine" LOLZ!


113 posted on 10/30/2022 7:30:27 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: tired&retired

“There are many people who have a psychotic break for life with first use.”

You cannot cite a single example of that.


114 posted on 10/30/2022 8:29:31 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Really

Garvey was largely buffoon

Rastas are mostly innocuous

And yes I’ve known them well it’s not Marley romanticism

Gunmen in Wareika Hills Kingston or Bog Walk May Pen are not rastas

They smoke ganja like they drink Dragon Stout

Rastafarians like Naya Binghi sect it’s an agrarian communal lifestyle


115 posted on 10/30/2022 9:08:28 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: wardaddy
Rastas are mostly innocuous

Only if you mean innocuous as in safely established and run by MNS & CIA. They were created to redirect pan-African sentiment into controlled and pot-stupefied oblivion.

116 posted on 10/30/2022 9:38:16 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Oh please

There was no CIA when Rastafarianism started in the 1930s

They were no pal of neo commie Michael Manley in the 70s and 80s in Jamaica

Nor Eddie Seaga either

They did love Halie Selassie in Ethiopia now though


117 posted on 10/30/2022 10:00:44 AM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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To: wardaddy
Rastafarianism started in the 1930s

Rastafarianism as such was not started in the 1930's. It was not until the 1940's and 1950's when various movements were directed into socialist communes. First use of the word "Rastafarian" for the movement did not even appear until the 1950's.

Quite around the time of CIA's official formation.

118 posted on 10/30/2022 10:24:01 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Pot legalization licenses every degenerate pothead piece of trash to force drug neighbors.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Rastafarianism as such was not started in the 1930's. It was not until the 1940's and 1950's when various movements were directed into socialist communes. First use of the word "Rastafarian" for the movement did not even appear until the 1950's.

That was Haille Selassie of them.

119 posted on 10/30/2022 10:25:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

Yes, many. I’ve attended medical research conferences just on this topic. It really started quite a few years ago when synthetic THC became popular.

The same thing happens with Ayahuasca.

I’ve worked with these patients myself, attended psychiatric Grand Rounds at the Med School on this topic.

Just Google the subject. There is plenty of research information out there. It’s not open to debate.


120 posted on 10/30/2022 11:50:21 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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