Posted on 04/04/2019 1:01:56 PM PDT by kaehurowing
Both groups were surveyed on a host of factors, including their use of marijuana and other drugs. The study’s authors concluded that “people who smoked marijuana on a daily basis were three times more likely to be diagnosed with psychosis compared with people who never used the drug. For those who used high-potency marijuana daily, the risk jumped to nearly five times."
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Both.
I’m sure using Google or another browser you will find the stats and data.
Eh. These are always target based “studies”. They never bother to find out if the person had problems before. Never compare to other psycho-actives like booze, or energy drinks. They don’t even see what happens when the person quits.
Hang in there. Wife went through that. It is true every little bit of anti-cancer activity helps, but It is not a medically acknowledged benefit in vivo of CBD, THC, or other cannabinol.
It is correctly referred to as self-medicating. Peculiar, the study makes no attempt to determine if THC treated the level of psychotic episodes.
Perhaps, agenda driven.
I’m not opposed to the state helping people to have self control. Especially when the state is expected to pick up the pieces when people don’t exercise self control.
But I kind of liked Trump’s pre-campaign idea of legalizing it, taxing it and using the proceeds to educate people.
“I hate pot and I hate being around potheads.”
In Vietnam, I found out the hard way that people may be able to smoke pot and do a lot of things, but flying helicopters isn’t one of them when a helicopter crashed while putting me and my recon team into an LZ in the A Shau Valley. An investigation found that the pilot and crew had been up all night the night before smoking pot.
http://www.projectdelta.net/the_ashau.htm
I can only say that I can walk out of my building right now, and I will see at least 2 - 3 people stoned out of their brains or passed out on the sidewalk.
No, it's not medically recognized, but that's due to the fact that the world's leading pharmaceutical companies control the medical establishment in the West.
It's not in their financial interests to support the widespread usage of an effective cancer treatment that anyone can make in their own kitchen, from a plant they can grow for pennies.
Bottom line: You're not allowed to kill a trillion dollar industry.
Then how did we survive before 1937?
People weren’t as stupid before 1937.
It is...was a pesticide for sometime. It’s also, highly addictive. I know because I just about lost my mind and several friends quitting cold turkey 25 years ago. Then got myself hooked on chew 10 years after quitting smoking. Getting off the chew was harder than the cigs! Nicotine f’s up your brain and dopamine receptors big-time and it takes a while to recover one you stop using. Each time I got hooked on nicotine I didn’t continue to smoke or chew because it was so pleasurable. I did it not to go through withdrawal. Anyone who says they do NOT get physical and mental withdrawals is lying. That being said, I couldn’t care less if people want to use nicotine, alcohol, pot, heroin or whatever. I just don’t understand why a person would want to be a slave, an addict, to any drug...legal or not.
But they do serve the prohibitionist agenda.
For your interest.
A lot of pot users also tend to abuse alcohol.
“The damage is real and it is national suicide to be legalizing pot”
...one of about 1000 different ways we are committing national suicide these days. We could make good profit making book on which one kills the nation first.
My opinion has always been legalize all drugs, guarantee the highest purity possible, make them as cheap as possible.
Then, ZERO public funded medical care of any type for OD’s or other drug related problems, ZERO public funded assistance, ZERO public funded rehabilitation, ZERO public funded “even second” hand programs of any type.
Then IMMEDIATE EXECUTION for any drug related crimes committed by users or suppliers.
They have enough money to buy their drug of choice, then they have enough money to SUPPORT THEMSELVES.
In answer to the pot defenders that toss out stuff like “my cousin smoked 6 joints a day and won a Nobel Prize in physics” let me say this...
1. Your cousin is still an idiot. Imagine how far they would have gotten had they not smoked dope!
2. People are different. What is a carcinogen to you may not be one to me. I might be able to have 3 beers and barely be buzzed and you might drink three and be under the table. We are talking about trends, not absolutes.
3. There is no “one size fits all” for marijuana. Being a botanical, there can be wildly varying level of THC along with other substances that can change the chemical make up of the plant.
4. Stop comparing marijuana to alcohol. Just...stop...you sound stupid.
Maybe they do not care about how far YOU want them to go, and they went exactly as far as THEY wanted to go... that pesky Freedom thing...
2. People are different. What is a carcinogen to you may not be one to me. I might be able to have 3 beers and barely be buzzed and you might drink three and be under the table. We are talking about trends, not absolutes.
4. Stop comparing marijuana to alcohol. Just...stop...you sound stupid.
As stupid as self-contradicting points in a single post? Hint: You just compared alcohol to marijuana.
3. There is no “one size fits all” for marijuana. Being a botanical, there can be wildly varying level of THC along with other substances that can change the chemical make up of the plant.
And yet you oppose it on grounds of what it MIGHT do for the very worst cases. Until you oppose peanuts and pets and pollen, your point has zero validity.
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