was a big pot smoker. Any mind altering drug can result in violence if the disconnection from reality leads them that way.
Posted on 02/02/2019 8:52:12 AM PST by yoe
[snip] So I did. The big studies, the little ones, and all the rest. I read everything I could find. I talked to every psychiatrist and brain scientist who would talk to me. And I soon realized that in all my years as a journalist I had never seen a story where the gap between insider and outsider knowledge was so great, or the stakes so high.
I began to wonder why—with the stocks of cannabis companies soaring and politicians promoting legalization as a low-risk way to raise tax revenue and reduce crime—I had never heard the truth about marijuana, mental illness, and violence.
[snip] Almost everything you think you know about the health effects of cannabis, almost everything advocates and the media have told you for a generation, is wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at imprimis.hillsdale.edu ...
Cannabis users today are also consuming a drug that is far more potent than ever before, as measured by the amount of THC—delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical in cannabis responsible for its psychoactive effects—it contains. In the 1970s, the last time this many Americans used cannabis, most marijuana contained less than two percent THC. Today, marijuana routinely contains 20 to 25 percent THC, thanks to sophisticated farming and cloning techniques—as well as to a demand by users for cannabis that produces a stronger high more quickly. In states where cannabis is legal, many users prefer extracts that are nearly pure THC. Think of the difference between near-beer and a martini, or even grain alcohol, to understand the difference.
[snip]"Whether to use cannabis, or any drug, is a personal decision. Whether cannabis should be legal is a political issue. But its precise legal status is far less important than making sure that anyone who uses it is aware of its risks. Most cigarette smokers don’t die of lung cancer. But we have made it widely known that cigarettes cause cancer, full stop. Most people who drink and drive don’t have fatal accidents. But we have highlighted the cases of those who do.
We need equally unambiguous and well-funded advertising campaigns on the risks of cannabis. Instead, we are now in the worst of all worlds. Marijuana is legal in some states, illegal in others, dangerously potent, and sold without warnings everywhere.
But before we can do anything, we—especially cannabis advocates and those in the elite media who have for too long credulously accepted their claims—need to come to terms with the truth about the science on marijuana. That adjustment may be painful. But the alternative is far worse, as the patients at Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Institute—and their victims—know.
Total BS!!!!
Fine, whatever. Slap warning labels on it if necessary, but stop criminalizing it for adults.
Well, that was a fact-filled rebuttal!
And if we gave beer drinkers grain alcohol, they’d all die of alcohol poisoning.
Your PharmD is from where?
Complete and utter nonsense. Period.
Sad news for prohibitionists =>
“William Barr would ‘not go after’ marijuana companies in states where drug is legal”
I know MANY pot smokers but literally NONE with mental illness.
I didn’t think it was marijuana. I always thought it was people dipping it in PCP.
Indeed he never lets facts get in the way of a high.
I doubt it....too many politicians, ad agencies, Wall Street, and marijuana farmers making money on the folks.
You are mentally I’ll already if you smoke pot
it’s well established that pot causes psychotic events in some people- and as pot use increases due to legalization, more and more events will happen- and it’s not true that you don’t know of anyone who uses pot with mental illness- Jared loughner was one such person- Bundy, Gacey, Dahmer, were all pot smokers- (Note I’m not saying pot made them do the things they did, but I’m also not discounting the possibility that pot did cause their psychotic tendencies- I’m making no judgment call on this - just pointing out that some people with mental illness were heavy pot smokers- so yes, there are peopel with mental issues who smoke or smoked pot regularly
But, conservatives?
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