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 ...
Lol 😂
The author of that piece Alex Berenson very down on mandatory masking and Covid vaccines.
Ping and read the comments…
I guess I need to ping vendome, it being his birthday and all.
Do you think the government should play mother’s role in our lives and tell us what we can do or not do?
I beat you. :)
darn my slow typing skills
We had the same second.
Dope heads all over the US and FR won’t like hearing this.
I kind of follow the thinking of Edmund Burke on the necessity of “prejudice and prescription”. A nation’s citizenry needs “prejudice” against stupid ruinous s—t and “prescription”, that is laws, to incline them against stupid ruinous s—t when prejudice isn’t enough.
No, marijuana is perfect! It’s illegal to criticize. Ingest what the government tells you to.
Yeah let’s totally continue the war on drugs, that way we can continue having cops like this plant drugs in cars he pulls over, have those people go to jail for YEARS all because he wanted a promotion and realized busting people for drugs was a quick way to do that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UANRvFNc0hw
By the way, why don’t someone post the deaths caused directly by alcohol and deaths caused directly by marijuana side by side
Pot is not a drug, it’s a religion.
“Do you think the government should play mother’s role in our lives and tell us what we can do or not do?”
I do NOT. The war on drugs has not worked (or maybe it did, if the goal was not really less drug use). Education, peer pressure, litigation, etc seems to work. Think cigarettes.
And the First Amendment says everyone has the RIGHT to practice their religion.
“wo0nder if CBD leads to schizophrenia too eventually?”
CBD is the non-psychoactive component of marijuana so probably not. THC is the psychoactive molecule.
But some CBD concoctions include THC on the theory that it makes the CBD work better so people should be aware of that.
The marijuana that we were playing around with in the 1960s wasn’t remotely as strong as what they are using today. I don’t know if this Daily Mail piece is accurate but it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that marijuana could trigger schizophrenia.
You make my statement true.
So you are OK with innocent people in jail? Please tell us how happy you are about the J6 protestors now behind bars.
The pro weed crowd just refuses to even entertain a conversation about the long term psychological effects of pot use.
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“The pro weed crowd”
There is no “The pro weed crowd”, there is the “How about we avoid SWAT teams busting into homes and shooting a war vet and his dog because they either got the wrong address or god forbid he have a plant growing in his backyard” crowd
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