Posted on 04/09/2014 2:53:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
DENVER (MainStreet) — It's something Colorado's legalized marijuana industry did not want to see: a college student tried a cannabis edible product and inexplicably jumped to his death. ...
"There is a groundswell building to repeal it," he said. "It's going to continue to lose support because there are going to be more harms coming from it, large and small." ...
"Increasingly, we are contacted by parents, desperate to learn more," he writes on his blog. "Their typical and tragic messages go something like this: "We never knew. We thought marijuana wasn't even addictive and that it was less harmful than alcohol. Why did nobody tell us?"
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Anecdotally, there've been a handful of exceptionally violent crimes in the news committed by known marijuana users having what appear to be psychotic episodes. For instance, Rudy Eugene, who made the news for chewing off a man's face, was found to have only marijuana in his system, according to the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner.
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“It’s a distinct possibility.”
I remember a old comic. It showed two very fat policemen walking down a sidewalk, with one saying, “I smoked marijuana once. It made me want to hurt and kill.”
No. It does not. Many medical studies even back when I practiced made it clear it does not. Wanna make it illegal for those reasons? Fine. Outlaw alcohol as well.
Anecdotes are not a way to make decisions.
Keep it legal and regulate it.
Somebody on this forum is saying that I’m paranoid. Now, who is it?
Back in the day I used quite a bit but I never experienced any dustmop squirrel trailer hitch purple spiders look at the purple spiders mental problems...
I did, too when stationed in Thailand. I read the first paragraph of 'Andromeda Strain' about 50 times and gave up.
On a serious note, I spent several years doing emergency psych evaluations, crisis intervention, substance abuse assessments, etc in rural ER departments. I saw lots of pills, alcohol, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine cases. Many of these people also had been smoking marijuana. I can't recall ever seeing someone brought into the ER solely because they were intoxicated on pot. There was always something else. Most likely those actually made psychotic by marijuana became distracted on the way to the emergency room, ended up at Taco Bell and then forgot where they had set out to go.
Punk: “Your fu##in’ with the Vipers here a##hole!” Chrissy: “OOOhhh, really? What’s that, your girl scout troop?” (A little SOPRANOS there!)
The cookies probably had nuts in them! lol
The short answer is no.
I haven't heard the term "hash" used in decades......
Is it still available?
I knew pot users back in the 60s who were paranoid, but I always assumed it was because they were worried about being caught and sent to prison.
Not yet, and I’ve been trying for over 30 years now.
the amount of THC injested was “7.2 nanograms per milliter.” According to this article, the baseline for intoxication is “ 5 nanograms per milliter.” Was the elevated level enough to induce psychosis? Seems a small range, but I have no idea how that equates to like, the difference between 3 beers versus 4 beers, level of intoxication.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/02/us-usa-colorado-marijuana-idUSBREA3127N20140402
A huge correlation with schizophrenic behavior
Psychosis refers to an abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a “loss of contact with .... kind of generic
Well maybe but so can alcohol so thats no reason to ban cannabis or any drug for that matter...OOOH, horsepoop.
I figured the best thing for me was to just go to sleep...
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