Heavy Cannabis Use Linked to Schizophrenia Especially among Young Men

The French psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau published a book called Hashish and Mental Illness in 1845, the same year that Scientific American brought out its first issue. In it, he explored his own experiences with the drug cannabis at the Paris-based Club des Hachichins—some of which took place alongside the likes of Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire. Two years earlier Moreau described the “undescribable delights” of a “marvelous substance.” But in his 1845 book, he noted in great clinical detail the similarities to psychosis when ingesting high doses.

Nearly two centuries later the possible link between cannabis use and schizophrenia continues to be intensively researched, often provoking heated debate in its wake. A study published on May 4 in the journal Psychological Medicine provides new evidence that problematic cannabis use may lead to schizophrenia, particularly for young men who are heavy users.

-—Question, how many mass shootings were committed by pot-heads? 0

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was a pot head. The Boston Marathon bombers were potheads. That Ohio shooter a while back was a pothead.

You just haven't been paying attention.

Heck, al Qaeda's Osama bin Laden owned a big freaking pot farm in Sudan and used enslaved local kids to work it. You don't think he and his followers sampled his own products?

It would be interesting to find out how many mass murderers didn't use the stuff, but they usually don't test for the stuff in these cases because the perps are often dead or they are being charged with homicide not "mass-murdering under the influence."

#1 on your list (in order listed), claiming Khalid Sheik Mohammad was a pot head.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/documents/ksm-indictment.pdf (nothing)

https://www.mc.mil/Portals/0/pdfs/KSM2/KSM%20II%20(AE018Y(KSM%20et%20al)).pdf (nothing)

https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/211203.pdf (nothing)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111shrg64953/html/CHRG-111shrg64953.htm (nothing)

Where do you get Khalid Sheikh Mohammed using pot?

****Please reference/back up what you’re saying with a credible source that isn’t just speculating or throwing accusations around.***

#2, With the Boston Marathon bombers you are correct. They were pot head. I didn’t know that.

#3, The claim that OBL used kids on a pot farm is just that, a claim, and I would be highly suspicious of that. Why?

It’s his folks that actually destroyed the drug production in Afghanistan: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/02/1102586941/afghanistan-opium-heroin-taliban-poppy-farmers-ban

It’s actually “us,” as in the US and our allies that looked the other way, and in fact even put our troops on their fields to protect the crops since it’s the folks that grew opium that were on our side. Funny to see this: https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=firefox-b-1-lm&q=us+forces+guard+opium+field&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikx8KI3eP-AhVsFlkFHc15C-YQ0pQJegQIBxAB&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1

People can say/claim anything, but I am suspect of OBL being involved in pot production. You can claim he owned a distillery too.

Folks that are very unpopular get a lot of negative things pinned to them, even if some of it is fantastical, i.e. Nazi alien or satanic connections... Who’s going to come to their defense, right?

You ask, “It would be interesting to find out how many mass murderers didn’t use the stuff,”

Seeing how ~1/2 of all Americans try marijuana, and roughly 1/6 use it regularly, you make an argument which will easily prove itself:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/353645/nearly-half-adults-tried-marijuana.aspx (49% try it)

https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/data-statistics.htm (18% use it regularly)

Seeing how its use is so prevalent, of course you are right that some serial killers, mass shooters, whatever else have used marijuana, and I should have thought of that before I blasted out my post.

On another note, I wonder how many mass murderers ate a Cheeseburger before?

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