Posted on 10/09/2024 12:33:05 PM PDT by chickenlips
A decade after the first state moved to legalize recreational marijuana, the dangerous effects of the drug are coming to light.
Across the country, physicians are seeing more people with marijuana addiction, psychosis including delusions or paranoia, schizophrenia, and a serious syndrome involving severe vomiting as more people use the drug, The New York Times found. The outlet examined medical records, insurance data, and spoke to hundreds of doctors and marijuana users.
Emergency rooms are seeing more people present with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, a condition involving “severe vomiting,” nausea, and pain caused by heavy marijuana consumption. The condition can cause extreme dehydration, seizures, kidney failure, cardiac arrest, and even death. At least eight people have died in the U.S. from the condition, the Times reported.
One Maine pediatrician said she sees teenagers who use marijuana almost all day, every day, “a remarkably scary amount,” and are dependent on it. A Massachusetts psychiatrist said she is seeing more cases of schizophrenia related to cannabis use. Even temporary psychosis from marijuana use can last months in some cases.
Some research suggests that about six million people who use the drug almost daily could have symptoms of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.
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Here in the totally blue Seattle area the only conservatives I know use marijuana products. Maybe the pot jolts them out of the brain dead liberal group think and causes them to swim upstream from those whose brains were scooped out and replaced with a TV.
The effects were always well known, just squashed by the hype to legalize it. It was no worse than alcohol...so they told us, and non-addictive. Yeah right.
Getting pot on the ballot did get dimrats elected though.
The detriment of booze dwarfs that of marihuana use
Yet it’s celebrated
+1
I concur. [from a pot smoker of over FIVE DECADES]
I hope the dumbass politicians “taxed the hell out of it.” They’re going to have lot of health problems with the idiots who used too much of the wonder cure for recreational purposes. The cost of medical care is going to skyrocket.
There was a reason it was illegal
I'll drink to that.
Wardaddy
Both are problematic.
We have had thousands of years in western civilization to manage alcohol and its problems.
arijuana does have its legitimate medicinal uses however, the young people overdosing on it are using pot with many times the THC content that was available through the 9os. The oil in the vape pens contains 99.9% THC.
A drug is a drug, legal or illegal-they all have potentially disabling and deadly side effects for the majority of users. My 1st husband was fond of saying that substance abuse/addiction was a self-cancelling problem, and as a case manager, I agree. I committed to an all natural, organic diet and lifestyle decades ago-no processed food, free range meat, no GMOs, no drugs, legal or illegal-that is my healthy choice, but one size does not fit all...
Sooner or later, someone who abuses substances will not be able to function appropriately at work and/or outside of it, and will be fired and unable to find employment-as well as being handed an ultimatum by fed-up family and friends. They will either get into rehab and get real-or turn to theft and go to jail, end up homeless, etc. If so, they will OD at some point and cease to be a problem.
Govt is not your mommy or daddy-so if you are over 18, go ahead and smoke, snort or shoot up anything you want-it is your funeral, literally. Maybe that is mean, but taking personal responsibility is how people learn-and yes, I have lost a couple of family members to death from addiction...
Marihuana. despite recent propaganda, is a dangerous drug.
Lot more dangerous than cigarettes!
Remember 3,000 years of Western civilization as an alcohol based culture with inns, taverns, elegant wine topped dinner parties, brandy and cigars, backyard BBQs and the social lubricant of alcohol.
Now imagine 3,000 years of where we would be if Cannabis and Hashish had replaced that and had been the intoxicant used by Western peoples.
Nearly 17% of people 18 to 25 have cannabis use disorder, now higher than the 15% rate of alcohol use disorder, according to last year’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
I had no idea. Yikes.
“Sounds exactly like the warning label on all kinds of new pharmaceuticals.”
It’s a false analogy you’re making because Rx drugs are prescribed at a given dose and the most serious side effects are very rare, otherwise they would not have been approved.
But with THC the dose is uncontrolled and tends to increase rapidly over time because of tolerance and social factors — like those kids in the article who smoke all day, everyday. And at that level pretty much everyone is affected adversely.
My Grandaughter came to visit from Alabama. When I picked her up from the flight along with her Daughter, she was vomiting constantly. She said that it happens once in a while. She vomited on the plane all the way to Seattle. She vomited during the 1.5 hr drive to my house. She vomited on and off until midnight or so.
She said it helps to shower. She took so many showers, that my storage section of the septic system filled up and set off an alarm. She was diagnosed with the syndrome of this thing mentioned in the article.
She continues using, refusing to blame the MJ. I just shared the article with my daughter who smokes too, she says Doctors say it isn’t that.
In 18 months since she moved up here (not in my house), she has had 3 bouts that wound up with her in the ER.
These pot addicts are insane....my personal opinion, well honed over 50 years.
What does Vaping have to do with anything? It is fairly harmless. Now those who do it and inhale from the hand held fog machines? Those guys are nuts...
Legalizing weed is a tool for a plan to destabilizing a society and it’s working.
It is not up to the govt to manage what adults consume-as long as the possible effects and consequences are known, it is up to each ADULT to choose what they put into their body, as long as they pay for it themselves and own any negative effects resulting from their actions-not family, insurance, lawyers, taxpayers-that is called personal responsibility...
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