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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You are correct-they do-but nobody wants to address that because it might upset big pharma’s income stream. I hope pres Trump puts RFK in a position to rip into that, starting with prescribing adderall, hardcore psychotropics, etc to teens...
My sole reason for opposing Marijuana legalization is that when substantial numbers have toked themselves into befuddled unemployability, their behavior will be declared a disease (as they did with alcoholism) and they’ll become wards of the state living off of our tax money.
You are a true idealist
I had a friend who in hindsight had gone nutty from dope. Unfortunately.
Don’t know whatever happened to him.
Anyone arrested for assualt or murder should be tested for psychoactive drugs and weed. I am sure the crime statisitcs will show a connection to these chemicals.
Back in the 80’s, we had a friend named Ted.
When he went to college, he started smoking a lot of pot.
He did change to the point we sometimes called him Tard.
Anyone who says it’s harmless is wrong.
This thread is more proof that Conservatives actually LOVE big government, as long as it’s THEIR big government.
Why did Western civilization reject Cannabis as an intoxicant until the international left gained so much power in the 1960s, when we have known about it and it’s use for getting high for thousands of years, but rejected it, even during the Crusades we were warned to stay away from its use while in that part of the world, even the Greeks stayed away from incorporating it as an intoxicant into their culture.
How do the parts of that world that have used Cannibals for 1000s of years differ from the alcohol using West, to me they very much resemble what we think of as the grungy stoner world versus the more out-looking go getter and less introspective and navel gazing Western world.
Yeah and marijuana has only been illegal since right after prohibition ended...
I would wager many more people have been helped by Marijuana medically than have been by Alcohol, but that said, not by smoking it. I personally know of two people who were in their 80s and wheelchair bound until they started using a THC Tincture. Don't believe me, check out what Genesis 1:29 says...
I am currently doing a Genesis bible study and so far the first two times alcohol was mentioned in the bible, both times pretty bad things happened... think of Noah and Lot, then remember God made all the plants, man makes alcohol
Drugs are natural though, some of them, and through trial and error, humans found them.
Pot plants stand out from the background just due to the shape of their leaves. They don’t look like too many other plants.
It caught the attention of a couple of cavemen some thousands of years ago, and here we are.
Not at all-I just see a lot of s*** in my professional life-plus what I see by living in a deep red rural area. Nobody should trust govt when it comes to food, water, drugs-or anything else-remember how the China flu was going to get you unless you got the “safe and effective” vaxx, etc, etc?
Adults are best off left to seek our own info and act accordingly-no govt “help” required-it is not mentioned in the constitution-they are supposed to keep us safe from invasion, and they aren’t even capable of that any more, much less any interfering in our lives...
I had a friend who in hindsight had gone nutty from dope. Unfortunately.
Don’t know whatever happened to him.
police officers should routinely be tested for everything... including steroids...
But you have to do things to plants to make alcohol or get high off marijuana. Alcohol takes more work processing the grain, soaking, boiling, fermenting, and so forth, while all you have to do with marijuana is smoke it.
But either one takes some work. The plants don’t just slap you in the face as you walk by and turn you into a slobbering moron. We had to work hard to figure that out, and God gave us the brain to do that.
Old saying was marijuana isn’t addictive.
But there has been a category for medical and other professionals called “daily marijuana user.” I first heard of it in singer Graham Nash’s autobiography Wild Tales (member of Crosby, Stills and Nash). Then I heard of others.
Then Michael Savage (PhD) said supporters suppress stories of people going into psychotic rages from the effect of marijuana on some, not all, brains. Others react with “no interest in holding a full time job” and being relaxed during crises. And now “marijuana” means possibly 10 times more powerful elements than anything the Cheech and Chong and Woodstock types smoked back then.
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