[GarySpFc]

This does not describe someone high on pot. Pot is being used here to cover for something a lot more severe in its effects, possibly PCP.

You are in part correct. However, pot does cause psychotic problems. Last year we had a family member who had to be admitted to the hospital problems she was having due to smoking pot. The doctors in the psych ward talked with us, and said the majority of admissions they have due to drug problems are from smoking pot. The pot being smoked today has been refined, and is 20 to 30 times as potent as what kids smoked 30 years ago.

[laney]

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.