Posted on 02/06/2006 7:53:49 AM PST by Wolfie
There is mixed research on pot effects. If someone is prone to mental illness it makes perfect sense to me that pot would send them over the deep end. I hope you do not love pot so much that you would deny that it has different effects on different people.
A man I knew got so paranoid on pot, he became dangerous but realized it before he did anything criminal and stopped using. Others I know can smoke with only a reduced level of drive in life as a consequence, which only affects their personal income and advancement. They reduce their intellectual operation.
I have never known anyone who has not suffered a degree of consequence from using the drug on a regular basis. It is not free of consequences; it is not harmless. Just like booze.
Read an article just this morning from www.foodnavigator.com/europe in which the author (and editor) states that the "plummeting minteral levels suggest nutritional crisis in UK". Early onset diabetes is linked to this "crisis" which, by the way, you won't about in this country because the food lobbyists have far too much clout. I will add that there is a steady recognition of the lack of nutrition in our food supply due to processing and/or GMO's.
As an occasional pot smoker for the last 35 years, I can tell you that back in the 70's there was some really crappy pot & there was also some really powerful stuff. Nowadays, it is the same, but the good stuff costs a way lot more - therefore - the average pothead usually ends up smoking the mediocre stuff most of the time.
This is the same old whine about marijuana. I want to see the results of a study of normal, productive, otherwise law-abiding citizens who smoke pot, drink alchohol, etc - VERSUS - psychotic, violent, mentally impaired people who smoke pot, drink alchohol, etc.
Now that would really tell the tale.
Total agreement here.
Although I can sympathize with you're family dilemma, I find it highly unlikely that a psych ward has just a bunch of potheads on the unit, they might smoke pot in addition to being mentally unbalanced or they might be taking hard core dope and smoking pot as well.
I doubt that a normal person who ocassionally smokes marijuana ends up on a psych unit.
Had she never checked on this man's background before allowing him to stay in the house with her and her teenaged children? STOOPID!
"IMO, alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana."
Maybe. I don't know, having never smoked pot.
I can state with personal knowledge that it made a very bright MIT-engineer-to-be (the aforementioned college roomate) into slug. I think he dropped out and worked at a quickie-mart or something.
I favor legalization because the government has no business being a nanny over people, from the left (seatbelts, helmets, junk food) or the right (drugs, alcohol).
That, and as an avid hiker, I came across a pot farm by accident and nearly got killed by a deadfall drap (plastic sheet with dirt on it, sharpened wooden spikes in the bottom, ala Viet Cong). My dog stepped on it but wasn't heavy enough to trigger it fully. Pulled him out just before he fell. I would have died.
The underground pot world has made it impossible to hike in any national forest.
LOL. Someone seriously harshed his buzz.
very interesting information about the underground pot world and your hiking. I'm so far removed from that kind of life style now.
Wonder what the real cause of this was?
I for one am absolutely convinced that smoking large amounts of weed (particularly the modern skunk varieties) as a teenager can trigger psychotic illness in those genetically vunerable.
I watched it happen to someone once. He never recovered.
I have been a multiple lines insurance agent for 37 years. We can tell when a heavy pot user comes into our office, and it shows in their driving records.
I could call the Association of Alcoholics Anonomoyus and ask then if Aclcohol is dangerous and recieve the same answer.
I am sure that Psych unit would also say taking Benzodiazepines is dangerous so I fail to see the point here...
He sounds like he could use a drink.
What you see is *Driving under the influence* that encompasses many mind altering substances.
You can be arrested for driving while using NYQUIL...
Satire?
Funny...big yuks
I wouldn't touch that filth with a 10 foot cattle prod.
Sorry, no I wont. I dont need a PHd who never experienced weed or other drugs tellling me how dangerous they are without listing booze right up there with it. It is dishonest for any entity to decry drug use and not include alcohol. At age 38, I drank more before I turned 29, than most do in a lifetime. I have been sober for coming up on 9 years, and can testify beyond a shadow of doubt that weed pales in comparison to the damaging effects of alcohol. But drug warriors like their crutches, too, and fail to see that the jack black double they have to "relax" after work can lead to the same problems as the drugs they claim are so evil. Thats why these threads are always so full of shiite..
I'm kinda surprised thast this thing has gotten up to 80 replies with no sign of the Nerd Herd thusfar.
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