Posted on 05/15/2019 6:15:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yeah, but what about ice cream?
So Sessions was right to make this one of the centerpieces of his office?
Bttt
Given Ann’s recent statement that she would vote for Bernie Sanders instead of Trump, I think it’s a fairly good guess that she’s quite the pothead herself.
As a medical provider, I see pot smokers often. Many of them look like crap and are suffering from depression and have “no idea why.” I tell them to cut it in half and start exercising daily. They look at me like this is some extremely novel idea ...
I doubt she’s a pothead but I no longer give Ann Coulter the benefit of the doubt that she’s supplying useful, accurate information.
If this report/book is such a big deal, I would expect we’ll see others touting it as well.
Where have I seen Him Before?
Everybody wants it legal; everybody wants a piece of the action.
Discussion of cannabis psychosis is being suppressed in the media. Even in emergency rooms dope is treated as coincidental: “patient suffered pneumonia, evidently contracted after he removed is clothing for a January romp in the public fountain. Blood tested positive for THC.”
Don’t ask me why I know, lets say recent events have occured and I’ve had reason to look into this.
There are three known species on cannabis,one I can’t recall. The older stoners used the C sativa variety. That’s old hat, replaced by a far more potent C indica— from the Hindu Kush. Indica has been crossed with sativa and selectively bred to contain a dangerously high level of THC.
Add to that another fact; there’s a substance in Pot that is actually beneficial—CBD.This stuff shows great potential as a treatment for pain and many psychological conditions—including schizophrenia Some have speculated that it balanced the deleterious effects of thc in the older, mellower varieties of yesteryear. It seems that as THC levels in the hybrids increased, the levels of benign, possibly neural protective CBD have decreased.
I doubt this is the whole picture, but it suggests a grim outlook.
He’s the guy who shot Gabby Gifford’s.
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Thanks NobleFree.
Paul B Birkett, Clinical Lecturer, Longley Centre
British Medical Journal, 27 November 2002
[...] those with schizophrenia may have had abnormalities detectable in childhood (1) and therefore predating any cannabis use. There is another difficulty with the proposition that cannabis use causes some cases of schizophrenia; as Rey and Tennant (2) point out, we lack the crucial epidemiological evidence demonstrating the expected increase in incidence of schizophrenia within populations exposed to high levels of cannabis. It is therefore important to carefully consider alternative explanations for the association.
Varma and Sharma (3) found an increased prevalence of cannabis use disorder in the first-degree relatives of schizophrenic probands. Working from the other direction, McGuire et al (4) found that within a sample of patients admitted with acute psychosis, the morbid risk of schizophrenia was increased for the relatives of probands who had tested positive for cannabis on urinary screening. These findings are consistent with the notion of a common genetic risk factor for cannabis abuse and schizophrenia. [...]
1. Jones P, Rodgers B, Murray R, Marmot M. Child development risk factors for adult schizophrenia in the British 1946 birth cohort. Lancet 1994;344(8934):1398-402.
2. Rey JM, Tennant CC. Cannabis and mental health. British Medical Journal Clinical Research Ed. 2002;325:1183-4.
3. Varma SL, Sharma I. Psychiatric morbidity in the first-degree relatives of schizophrenic patients. British Journal of Psychiatry 1993;162:672-8.
4. McGuire PK, Jones P, Harvey I, Williams M, McGuffin P, Murray RM. Morbid risk of schizophrenia for relatives of patients with cannabis- associated psychosis. Schizophrenia Research 1995;15(3):277-81.
This can be reversed - but only in a legal regulated market.
Thanks,
They Walk Amongst Us.
Yep, because legal regulation had done a stellar job keeping marijuana off the market for many years.
There are articles far more recent than 2002 on the association between THC use and psychosis.
According to a research psychologist I saw at a conference recently, the brain is still developing until about age 30, and the brain remains susceptible to cannabis-induced psychosis throughout development.
This is a big problem, especially considering the efforts of NORML to portray marijuana as completely harmless. People do not know the dangers.
I agree, but only if the regulators keep the consumers, not the peddlers interests centermost,that they are fully aware of the health risks and have some way to keep current with research.
This is a tall order for Washington.
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