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Posted on 09/17/2023 7:49:37 PM PDT by chickenlips
A nationwide social experiment launched by a wave of marijuana legalizations is finally bearing results in the form of higher depression rates and addiction.
It started in 2012 in Colorado and Washington, setting off a domino effect that has seen restrictions lifted across nearly 40 states, including 23 where it's legal to use marijuana recreationally.
The Biden administration now aims to demote the drug from its schedule I status, which lumped it in with heroin and LSD, to schedule III, the first step toward total decriminalization at a federal level.
Marijuana has been lauded for its purported benefits for pain relief and anxiety treatment among other applications, all while believed users could not become addicted.
Now, more than 40million adults – 16 percent of the population – use marijuana, a rate that has more than doubled in the last 10 years amid a seismic cultural shift that sees more acceptance toward medical and recreational use.
But it turns out the seemingly harmless drug may not be so benign and could pose physical and mental health issues.
DailyMail.com detailed the health risks and benefits associated with cannabis use.
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Links to severe mental health issues To much of the public, marijuana is relatively innocuous compared to illicit narcotics.
But many researchers have come to the conclusion this view is false, especially when a person uses the drug on a regular basis.
Researchers from the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark recently delved into the records of more than 6.6 million people in Denmark born between 1985 and 2021 and found of those with cannabis use disorder - defined as being unable to stop using in spite of it causing damage to their health and social lives - about 41 percent of those individuals were diagnosed with major depression.
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Also underlies a lot of 911 “check welfare” a/o disturbance calls, some of which result in “suicide by cop”
The pot heads will deny that pot causes any problems at all. You would think they are a DemocRat in Congress supporting Joe Biden.
wo0nder if CBD leads to schizophrenia too eventually?
I’m sure people who smoke a lot of pot are more likely to vote Democrat.
Of course, they’re probably less likely to vote at all, but the Democrats are working on that angle.
This was published in Hillsdale’s ‘Imprimis’ a few years ago:
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/marijuana-mental-illness-violence/
That said, any talk of easing up on marijuana by the Biden Admin smacks of more election-season bull squeezin’s.
“A study published in the May issue of the journal Psychological Medicine found cannabis use disorder was linked to about 30 percent of schizophrenia diagnoses in young Danish men in the year 2021.”
If this is true that 3 of 10 schizophrenia cases are caused by marijuana it may explain why the sudden explosion of homeless people over the last 5 years or so.
Reefer Madness: More than a movie title.
Mentally ill people are more likely to self medicate as well.
Weed seems to have totally replaced menthols in the Amish community.
I suspect it is not necessarily the marijuana, but instead the stuff that is added to what “pot” users smoke these days. Marijuana is not the natural plant we remember from the 60s and 70s. How much has it been engineered? It sounds more like the acid and other drugs that was used back then. I know I certainly wouldn’t smoke any of the stuff they call marijuana today. What have they done to it?
I was wrong about weed. 20 years ago I was all for legalization “because it’s safer than alcohol” but now I see that I was wrong. It is dangerous and has ruined many lives, and oftentimes in a subtle way of ruining drive and ambition and mentally clouding a person in a fog. Weed legalization has not helped the state of our nation at all...
And FR’s dope addict libertarians secretly endorse pedo joe. Cause, it’s only weed.
Pot gives me super powers that normal people will never experience. It all started with the ducks and I got hooked on quack. My music turned to crack rock. I tried getting a job on the railroad so I’d get my life back on track. I wasted money on gas chasing rainbows because I heard from a leprechaun there was pot at the end of the rainbow.
See, everything always works out in the end.
Today is just not my day with you, huh?
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