I am a relatively new psych student and marijuana use is NOT and has NOT ever been recommended by any of my progressive liberal textbooks. They are scared to death of the psychotic, LSD-like damage it does. I was shocked but most psychiatrists are against the legal use of marijuana.
That’s what I mean. They KNOW that marijuana is not harmless and are already working on cures for the damage that it does. Much worse than the short term memory loss and adhd is the link to psychosis.
I never believed it when friends or relatives told me that the doctors blamed the psychosis of a relative on early drug use, mostly marijuana. I always thought that the person was in denial, that they were afraid to admit that their relative was just psychotic or was suffering from the impact of much stronger drugs, but this is what they meant when they labeled marijuana a gateway drug.
They're quite wrong about that. Marijuana is not even a hallucinogen like LSD.