Cannabis makes you like, crazy, man

IOL ^ | July 4, 2003 | Cape Times

[FairOpinion]

Something to consider for those who insist that there are no harmful effects from marijuana.

[Arpege92]

I don't think this is going to change alot of minds!

[freebilly]

I don't think this is going to change alot of minds!

According to this article, a lot of minds have already been changed....

[Helms]

[BrooklynGOP]

Co-Occuring Alcohol Use Disorder and Schizophrenia. Enjoy. Note the source.

[liberallarry]

One study suggested cannabis users were at seven times higher risk of developing mental problems.

Close observation suggests that "leading psychiatrists" are seven times more likely to develop mental problems than cannabis users.

But it can't be good for young people to use drugs. They haven't had the time or experience to understand what's important in life and what drugs can and cannot do

[Burkeman1]

Can't wait for the hordes of pot heads to show up to tell us how Canabis is the perfect plant and how "good" it is. And to also insist that alchohol is just as bad.

[Mr. Mojo]

Close observation suggests that "leading psychiatrists" are seven times more likely to develop mental problems than cannabis users.

LOL...Good point.

[tet68]

A study in 1987 of 50 000 Swedish conscripts found that those who admitted at age 18 to having used cannabis on more than 50 occasions were six times more likely to develop schizophrenia in the following 15 years.

What a bunch of hooey!
Is not!
Is so!
Is not!
Is so!
See we told us so!

I remember sitting in a dentists chair while in the marines
as a dentist took out his pen and made a little dot on the
paper of his tray. Telling his assistant, "Just this much LSD will make you crazy for the rest of your life!"
This was entirely too much for me and I burst out laughing.
He leaned over me, drill in hand and glowered, "What do YOU know?" I quickly swallowed my humor and shut up.

[Former Proud Canadian]

I don't think any responsible person advocates legalizing marijuana for teenagers.

[freedumb2003]

The thinker you drink
the thunker you smoke.

[Nick Danger]

If dope smoking doesn't damage your brain, then how come so many people thought Cheech and Chong were funny?

Radio Dinner, the National Lampoon

[vikzilla]

The increasing use of cannabis by adolescents is threatening the mental health of a generation because of the drug's capacity to trigger psychosis, a leading psychiatrist has warned.

This "Leading Psychiatrist" also warned that it was only through extensive studies and Gov't programs that blathering BS could continue to be used as an excuse to subjugate individual liberty to the state. This "Leading Psychiatrist", also mentioned in passing that he was just the man for the job and he would be happy to make a living over the next 25 yrs. spouting as much hyperbole and random nonsense as the taxpayers could handle.

[Joee]

I worked in youth programs for some 15 years. One reason for "grass" having increased effect, is that the "weed" has gotten much more powerful over the decade.

Wherein a "reefer" of yesteryear could put one in "la la" land after a series of hits, today one can get the same effect on only one or two whacks.

I have seen people unable to stand after 4 or 5 hits of "quality stuff." We are talking a different ball game, which we are losing.

[ActionNewsBill]

Co-Occuring Alcohol Use Disorder and Schizophrenia

"Don't you try to equate liquor to marajuana, Mister, not with me. You may be able to sell that jazz to another pothead, but not to somebody who holds some sick kid's head while he vomits and wretches on a curbstone at 4:00 in the morning.

up and empty his pockets, you can bet he'll have a stick or two of marajuana. And you can double your money he'll turn up a sugar cube or a cap or two. So don't you con me with your mind expansion slop.

I deal with kids every day. I try to clean up the mess that people like you make out of 'em. I'm the expert here, you're not."

[Varmint Al]

Here are some pictures of a box that someone left at one of my favorite campsites near Monitor Pass, CA.

Not only does pot mess up your mind, the person who did this wanted to tell the world how screwed up in the head he was. Last time I was up there, he/or she had been back there and added another date.

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I see it as evidence of someone with a really mixed up mind. The ad about eggs frying in a frying pan comes to mind with the caption: "This is your mind on pot!"

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[William Terrell]

As always, we need a link to the actual study. All too often, once sample makup is examined, procedures scrutinized, statistical methods checked, among other items, there will turn out to be not near the dramatic validation of claims as advertised, if any validation at all.

For each study that says one thing there are equal, or more, studies that say the opposite.

The unfortunate fact is that research led by pro-cannabis attitude turns up pro-cannabis results, and anti-cannabis attitude turns up anti-cannabis results. Odd how that works.

Where in the world did we get the idea that the vast population of adults do not have the right to do consume something that may (but but no means will certainly) harm them over a period of time? Like every human attibute there is, predispositions for and against everything is found and not found in every percentage populations of adults.

We should probably just ban everything, because there will be a group it adversly affects.

Prohibition laws made under the police power can be applied to any aspect of life. But there are rules. The danger must be manifest and verifiable. The remedy must reduce the danger. With cannabis, the danger has never been proven and the remedy certainly can be shown to not work. So the police power, under which anti-cannabis laws are passed, has no business being triggered in the very first place.

The only reason ever presented for the prohibition of cannabis is that it was used by Negro jazz musicians and wetbacks liked to smoke it.

I'm afraid your study must be filed under"Ambiguous Phenomena".

[doberville]

So, using your logic, how do you explain Jerry Lewis?
Organic psychosis?

[BrooklynGOP]

lololol!

[oyez]

Navy doctors were always too damn serious, anyway.