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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
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To: EEGator

Our Irish - Catholic dad was born and raised in San Francisco. He would have been 101 years old this month. He remembered signs: No Dogs or Irish Allowed.

He laughed at all of them. He fought in WWII, Korea and Vietnam as a pilot (and other assignments). Thanks to God he survived all of it, and returned to help raise my two brothers and four sisters. He had a drawer full of medals he never wore, unless some General ordered him to wear them. (he retired a Colonel.

Like most soldiers and warriors, he did not discuss his experiences much. He did say once, when we were very young and were looking in the drawer of medals, he said ‘just means I was lucky.’ To him, the real heroes were those that did not return.


81 posted on 10/29/2022 12:15:33 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: cgbg

Agreed, the prefrontal cortex isn’t fully developed until 26.

I don’t argue for weed use. Just decriminalization and for cancer patients.
Not, I want to listen to Pink Floyd’s The Wall and melt into the couch.


82 posted on 10/29/2022 12:17:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Anti-Irish signs mean nothing to Irish.

We know we are superior to all. ;)


83 posted on 10/29/2022 12:19:03 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: gundog
That is weird.   The guy sounds like Wink Dinkerson from KRUT Radio.
84 posted on 10/29/2022 12:27:30 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: firebrand

👍🏻


85 posted on 10/29/2022 12:32:45 PM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: thegagline

Are these people vaxxed? 🤔


86 posted on 10/29/2022 12:39:13 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I’m 65 and if cannabis caused psychosis, I would be in a padded room in a mental hospital. Been using weed since the 70’s. It helps with my arthritis, appetite, and sleep.The worst thing that has ever happened is that I have gotten hungry and there were no snacks nearby.


87 posted on 10/29/2022 12:40:50 PM PDT by teofila
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To: dfwgator

Pot and ADD drugs don’t mix.

Says so on the label.


88 posted on 10/29/2022 12:41:17 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: cdnerds

23 years and no problems? You may just be lucky. Vaping causes lung problems, to what total extent, it is too early to tell. The THC can be derived and taken in pill form for the medical benefits. Smoking tobacco or marijuana causes lung damage and can cause cancer. Alcohol in “moderation” does not. Our digestive system converts carbohydrates to CO2 and alcohol.


89 posted on 10/29/2022 12:58:41 PM PDT by Machavelli (True God)
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To: higgmeister
You can make concentrates by several methods. Hash oil and honey oil were available in the ‘70s, but not common. There are all kinds of contraptions for capturing trichomes that fall off of weed being processed. Simple grinders often have a hash screen. I was amazed while watching the potheads at the lake, during the Summer of Covid. Lots of paraphernalia.

Dabs are smoked by heating a hollow straw....a “nail”....into a waxy concentrate. Smoke results, and is sucked ip through the straw. More elaborate means involve a water-cooled “dab rig”...a variation on a bong. Lots of youTube vids to watch. That’s another thing...no internet to spread the word in the ‘70s.

90 posted on 10/29/2022 1:00:16 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I know someone who is on opioids for chronic pain, and medical marijuana (recommended by his pain management doctor) for anxiety, since the government, in all their wisdom, has ordained that patients cannot have anxiety meds and opioids prescribed together.


91 posted on 10/29/2022 1:15:48 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray withSout ceasing)y)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Homeless hoards got worse after legalization in Colorado, California and Nevada.


92 posted on 10/29/2022 1:24:59 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: fireman15

“Many people have told me that they are willing to give up anything but marijuana”.

Had an employee back in the 90’s who quit the job because he was not willing to give up his weekend dope.

He had a wife and 3 kids, it was a good job with great benefits, medical, dental, eyeglasses, maternity, etc.

The kind of bennies most people would kill for and a great retirement package.

As a company we had random drug testing and he tested dirty on a Monday morning, he explained to me he only smoked on weekends. I told him it didn’t matter, he was required to operate equipment and handle dangerous chemicals during the course of his employment.

The company offered a fully paid drug treatment program to any employee who choose to enter it.
Upon successful completion they would be re-instated to their position in the company with full pay and any back pay coming, the only caveat was you had to stay clean.

He chose to quit instead instead of giving up his pot smoking.

I have always wondered what he told his wife and kids when he got home that day!


93 posted on 10/29/2022 2:37:29 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: dfwgator

Many have gone schizzo, for life.


94 posted on 10/29/2022 2:40:52 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Mariner

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

This is especially true with synthetic THC like JWH-18.


95 posted on 10/29/2022 2:42:45 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Levy78

It also depends upon the types of alcohol.

Alcohol fermented from rice tends to make people angry.


96 posted on 10/29/2022 2:44:16 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: BobL

“San Diego ER seeing up to 37 marijuana cases a day — mostly psychosis”

How many are Democrats?


97 posted on 10/29/2022 2:46:59 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: combat_boots

NAH; that’s all OLD SCHOOL, just depends on how long you been around and who you hung with.

Been there, done that, it just don’t appeal to me anymore.


98 posted on 10/29/2022 2:48:45 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: wardaddy

YUP; there was some good stuff going around back in the day, orange sunshine , purple microdot, blotter, etc.

That was then, this is now.

It was lots of fun, but everybody has to grow up someday.

Just not interested anymore.


99 posted on 10/29/2022 2:57:14 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: cgbg

My wife, and her sons(2) and Daughter in law, smoke regularly. I don’t participate, and haven’t smoked since my first baby was born. It never really did anything to me other than make me paranoid, or give me heart palpitations.

With that said, after 40+ years I read that concentrated distillate was a treatment for Cancer.

The first time I took 1/2 a grain of rice sized goo in a capsule, it made me a believer in the psychotic capabilities of MJ. At 3pm I took a nap after taking the pill, woke up around 430 as we were going to a concert at a casino. I couldn’t drive as I was very affected. Within 15 minutes, it felt like we were driving through water. Nothing was solid, but the world was fluid. After noticing that I began telling wife to turn it around. I noticed that my words I spoke were being typed out in front of my eyes. I couldn’t hear what I said, but I could read them. I was panicked, and it took forever to get home. I could barely walk up the 5 steps, it was like being extremely liquored up. I flopped on the floor, asked for blankets and pillows as my world whirled. I had dry heaves, and she sat with me for hours as I shivered and trembled. I finally went to sleep, and woke up still slightly high.

I still do CBD drops for pain and sleep, they work better than melatonin with no bad effects. They are about .007%THC, and 8% CBD per dropper. I see the potential in this, and even creme for arthritis.

The point being that the smokers say I am an outlier, and very sensitive. To me, the stuff is madness. I buy this type of studies results, hook line and sinker. What a waste of money, give me a good cold beer a steak on the grill and the laughter of grandchildren. That gets me high, and the adult children make me psychotic sometimes...lol


100 posted on 10/29/2022 3:13:39 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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