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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I’m not a marijuana fan at all but that Berenson paper has been widely criticized. And often by people who think that marijuana is bad for you.
It’s not a valid study. It’s a polemic using anectdotal information and cherry picked data from actual studies. Berenson is a journalist, not a researcher, and he either doesn’t know how valid research is done or simply doesn’t care. It’s a habit that has followed him into his covid writing. Cite him at your own peril.
Nah, man. We don't mind having a conversation. Come on over and we'll smoke a blunt and talk all you want. You just need to chill. After a few smokes, you'll forget all about what you're upset about. By the time it's all over and a few bags of Cheetos, you'll be a convert. Not so uptight. Your objections will disappear (like a puff of smoke).
Unbelievable our corrupt politicians are doing all they can to stop folks from smoking cigarettes, yet they are enthusiastically pushing pot.
That’s an Olympic-sized jump. What does smoking dope have to do with J6? Making pot legal has caused much more problems that it fixed.
Keep puffing
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em then rattlesnake 4:20. You have your opinions, I have mine. Mine are based on both scientific evidence and personal observation. There is no doubt that police corruption is unacceptable.But your bringing it up seems to be an attempt to steer the conversation away from the evidence that pot is an unhealthy and dangerous substance.
CC
I’m not sure what the answer is. War on drugs did a lot of bad things, and I don’t think kids should be put in jail for using it. But that doesn’t make weed safe, and it definitely shouldn’t be glorified or normalized.
I smell pot in my car driving down 240 on the way home from work. I smell it everywhere else like at Kroger. I had to point it out to my wife because it smells different than pot in the ‘70’s. More tangy it seems. I have a hard time describing it, bt I’m sure it’s more potent.
I’ll keep my brain chemistry the way it is, thank you very much.
CC
I wish they would ease up on it for pain relief...especially if you have cancer . I have a relative on the schizo scale. Not a pot smoker . Suspect predisposed then a trigger
So possible pot triggers in some predisposed
https://alcohol.org/statistics-information/
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a clinical diagnosis of alcoholism, or alcohol addiction.1 The 2019 NSDUH estimated that 14.5 million people ages 12 and older had an AUD. According to the same data, an estimated 414,000 adolescents ages 12 to 17 had an AUD. More than 95,000 people die every year due to alcohol-related causes.
We should pass a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol.
Oh wait…
Then why would I pop positive on a piss test? FWIW, I certify airworthiness.
Forget about how good or bad is pot for society for the time being.
Where in the Constitution is the federal government empowered to ban the sale of marijuana?
As a follow up to that answer, if such a power is granted, then why did it require an Amendment to ban booze?
spoken like a true alcoholic, maybe don’t respond on a forum when you are drunk
Any argument against weed you can use for alcohol. So either ban both or find a way to legalize & regulate both, because the war on booze and the war on drugs were and are failures.
I support your freedom to choose. You should reciprocate the same for others.
Just increased the potency.
Legalization has proven we were wrong about smoking pot - it’s not that it wasn’t as bad as we thought, it is that it is *worse* than we thought. Far worse. It also has not cut down on the black market, etc. It has even further empowered cartels.
The legalization crowd were completely wrong - big time. And many of them were just lying. Soros and his organization support this big legalization push to dumb down the population.
Freedom to choose what? Increasing those with schizophrenia and other disorders by a third and the massive taxing on our healthcare and other systems? The incalculable damage this is doing to families and communities? Freedom to choose that?
Not entirely - as people can drink without getting drunk, and many do. Whereas you cannot smoke pot without getting high.
And are you arguing no more people are smoking pot than before? Wrong - big time wrong.
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