Posted on 07/08/2023 6:17:31 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Many studies also show mentally ill are 200-300% more likely to use tobacco. Statistical correlation does not prove a cause and no direct twin study has proven either tobacco or cannabis actually cause mental illness.
Abuse of alcohol or stimulants(like meth) HAVE been shown to directly damage the brain in twin studies.
Hashish several times stronger than today’s raw cannabis has been smoked for at least 1000 years in Asia. Eating cooked cannabis which allows doses FAR higher than you can ever get from smoking has been happening for at least 4000 years. With evidence up to 12,000 years. Smoking the slightly stronger flower we have today is still NOTHING in comparison to other cannabis consumption methods people already have been using for many millenia.
I volunteer at churches and shelter and IMO the main trigger is people cracking and giving up after not being able to afford the most basic needs even if working several “essential” jobs. One bad thing happens or prices go up and suddenly more and more people can’t afford to live and get kicked out of their homes.
Due to outsourcing and offshoring, fewer and fewer people are able to afford the basics. Almost nothing is made here and all jobs are increasingly outsourced to 3rd world.
When I was starting out, taxi drivers and waitresses could afford a decent life and home to live in the neighborhood. While working decent hours and taking 2 vacations every year. Young people today cannot even comprehend what was taken from them and feel hopeless. They realize the math simply doesn’t add up anymore nomatter how hard they work and a huge number simply drop out.
Today even the most educated young people cant afford the cheapest home in town and average people cant even afford the cheapest rent. Everyone young now is broke except for those with family connections, doing very dangerous jobs or a handful of tech fields where the job market is also now collapsing.
I’m owner of an engineering firm and increasingly more of my competitor’s firms are outsourcing to Asia and South America while not giving their American staff a decent raise for 10 years. Now more of my clients are saying they can get work done for half the price.
F these sellout F’n outsourcing bastards and it should have been illegal yesterday! Garbage like that should be considered treason with the owners swinging in the square!
Multiple reasons, many mentioned in the comments.
I add the fact that our progressive society has bred 2 generations of conscience-less sociopaths and mixed thoroughly with a massive use of psychotropic drugs erroneously used to treat behavioral problems.
Criminals are taking advantage of the system!?
No way!!
Oddly, the US lagged in cannabis research for years due to Congressional opposition to federal funding. Now though, widespread use has made for renewed research because of alarming international research findings and the obvious detrimental impacts on public health of wide cannabis use. Call it a mere "statistical association" if you like, but no one but a fool would think that homelessness and routine use of cannabis and other illegal drugs are not closely associated.
Notably, although cannabis and other psychoactive compounds were widely used in the ancient world, they were mostly confined to religious cult rituals and medicinal purposes. People who used and abused cannabis, alcohol, and other intoxicants and psychoactive preparations simply did not survive long unless they were cosseted by wealth, status, or an indulgent and well off family.
I agree with you about the decay of American life and the lessening of economic opportunity and security over the last several decades. Yet it is hard to imagine how cannabis use can reverse such a trend. And if routine and widespread cannabis use was broadly beneficial in life, then why does the acrid odor of cannabis permeate homeless encampments but not well-ordered suburban neighborhoods?
In reality, the worst problem here in WA state is that the judicial bureaucracy is so mentally defective that normal people are perceived as “abnormal”. So, there’s that...
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