Posted on 05/22/2024 4:39:13 PM PDT by grundle
“ The four pot smoking kids I knew in high school, were not exactly firing on all cylinders before they started either.
Hardly scientific but made me to suspect that troubled kids turn to drugs sooner than others.”
I knew several that were on track to good, happy, and productive lives until they burned out on dope. So it works that way too.
Exactly. They have it backward - teens with psycho disorders are more likely to smoke rope. Self-medicating. Knew quite a few in the '60s and '70s.
They smoked rope? You had some strange friends.
Rope = hemp = maryjane. We were a creative lot back then.
It’s simple. Teenage brains are still developing. The brain is not fully developed until the mid 20’s.
Teens who smoke pot are at risk.
Far out, man.
I believe it—the pot we had back in the early to mid 70s was degrees less potent than todays stuff—or so I am told. I stopped smoking the evil weed when it stopped being $10/lid (That’s $10/Ounce for those in Rio Linda)
or...............
teen agers with disorders are more likely to use mj
People who purchase cannabis from dispensaries are safe from fentanyl laced products. They know up front the potency since products are clearly marked. Less likely to be mugged purchasing from a store, than from a stranger in the park.
You don’t have to “take pot” to realize that, from a safety standpoint, this is better than the black market.
What percent of the psychotic episodes involve edible marijuana, and not smoked marijuana?
Marijuana overdose is possible with edible weed.
When smoking, your blood THC level can reach saturation with just one or two bong hits.
Edible is widely available in most legal marijuana states.
Smoking ANYTHING inside a USA apartment building can get you instantly evicted.
I will speculate that many, and perhaps most psychotic episodes, involve edible marijuana.
Obviously.
We only have so many brain cells. Funny how we work so hard to kill them.
The teens around here are far more into vaping nicotine now instead of obtaining it from tobacco combustion. On the one hand I guess there’s the argument these vapor include fewer toxic byproducts of combustion. Also from the teen point of view, here’s also school-friendly and parent-friendly lack of burnt tobacco odor. These vapes may also be cheaper than a pack of smokes in a high-tax state like California.
I don’t know. The whole thing of seeing people sucking on these plastic devices seems weird to me, as someone who grew up in another era. I also suspect that it’s much easier for teens to deliver to themselves really high levels of nicotine with these devices. The amount of nicotine in tobacco leaves is relatively consistent, I would think. But with these devices, I’d assume that the sky is the limit on dosage.
I’m glad that studies like this are being done, but I didn’t need the study to appreciate its truth. This stupid drug is insanely popular where I live (San Francisco), I’ve seen psychosis happen to users I know. Hell, nearly all the crazies who litter our streets smoke this crap all day long.
Hey, trust the science! Some yahoos publish some paid-for study that they arranged and some people STILL just eat it up like gospel. It’s like the COVID scam never happened.
I am one. I suffer debilitating neuropathy and migraines. A small dose of mixed THC and CBD works amazing. (About 3 mgs via gummy form ). Otherwise all I can get are addictive narcotics and gabapentin that wipe me out.
I am biased as I use to make extraction equipment for CbD and have seen amazing results for epileptics. CBD doesn’t get one high but it was a very successful treatment for epilepsy and other spastic disorders. The THC that gets you high works well for pain, and in my case, neuropathy pain and migraines.
I should add I am not a teen (I wish) smoking the stuff like crazy and know it is harmful to a developing mind. I’m sixty something old man that would rather take a few gummies a week and function than drugs that pretty much make me unable to function.
Two hundred times the strength of 70s pot.
Smell must be worse, too. Just driving through town you can almost get knocked out by the skunkweed odor in certain areas and at the stoplights.
Maybe y’all are asking the wrong questions.
How and when did it become illegal? Was it true science or propaganda?
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