Having met pot users in high school and since, they are very often easily spotted. The damage is real and it is national suicide to be legalizing pot.
It generally affects people who already have a mental issue. However, smoking marijuana all day every day cannot be healthy in any respect. If you are around someone who does it, it’s not pretty.
Stoners don’t like to be around people who aren’t stoned.
Common sense would tell us the body wasn’t designed to inhale air filled with foreign matter without plugging up or curtailing it’s natural function.
This is an area of interest isn’t it?
But they don't put humans in cages for doing that to themselves.
Isn't that interesting too?
I don’t agree with legalization, and I don’t think any drug is totally innocuous. That said, I would have to see the data. It could certainly be that people with psychosis are more likely to start smoking marijuana, instead of a causation relationship. However, if it did contribute, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
The chicken and the egg. Which came first?
Are you a psycho, therefore you smoke dope?
or
Are you a doper, therefore you are psychotic?
I’ve never thought that setting something on fire and then inhaling the smoke seemed like a very good idea.
Pathetic screeds like this are openly mocked, just as the 50s pot-panic movies like "Reefer Madness" were.
The potheads used to say that legalization would make the paranoia go away, as it was caused by their fear of being caught and imprisoned.
People who smoke cigarettes are 300-500% more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Yet those studies do not make the claim that cigarettes CAUSED it. It simply means the mentally ill are more likely to use drugs and smoke.
There has not been a single controlled twin study that shows ANY long term differences when one twin is incroduced to cannabis at ANY dose. These correlation studies do not prove any cause
Had a girlfriend once who abused drugs, claimed she needed pot for her stomach.
Called her up one time and arranged a date. She told me where her apartment was and, on the day of the date, I picked her up and took her to a nice dinner then went to the mall and helped her shop for her nieces. Then I drove her home and she invited me in for awhile.
The next time I saw her she was like “How did you know my number? How did you know where I lived?” I said, “Because you told me”.
She practically accused me of stalking her so I backed out of the relationship big time.
I realize it’s anecdotal but it’s my only sustained experience with a pothead.
This was the same girl who once claimed she was “drug-free”. “Really?”, I thought. “Oh, from time to time I smoke some pot,” she continued, “and occasionally some uppers but I’ve quit the hard stuff for an entire month!”
I suggested she work at the Clinton White House.
Smoking anything is not healthy.
Mentally ill people do tend to drink alcohol and take drugs, duh!
Do a search on what alcohol and antidepressants do to brains, far more severe damage than cannabis.
Medical cannabis oil is an amazing medical drug.
THC in marijuana pretty strongly increases dopamine in the brain, causing people to feel good and eat more.
Dopamine disruption is characteristic of schizophrenia, specifically excess dopamine. Most anti-psychotic drugs have their effect by working against dopamine.
People who are psychotic (see, or hear things that are not there), or people who are close to that state in terms of their dopamine system, are really vulnerable to bad effects from marijuana use. It is not for everyone.
If people take enough concentrated THC extracts, almost everyone will experience psychotic symptoms.
In low doses, for most people, occasional use of marijuana, or THC extracts, is safe, and effective for several uses. For psychotics, or borderline psychotics however, THC is strongly contra-indicated.
Chronic heavy use of Marijuana/THC presents separate problems, even in those with no psychotic issues. Gradual changes to the brain, personality (loss of motivation) and dopamine regulation tend to occur.
Example , Obama/Trudeau
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.
For your interest.