Posted on 03/09/2016 10:32:56 AM PST by cassiusking
"Duane Stone is a veteran Seattle mental health specialist. He's seeing a surprising increase in patients experiencing psychotic episodes as well. Many have never had any mental health problems before.
"I get lots of first break kind where this person doesn't have an experience with mental illness, they don't have a diagnosis, they're 30 or 40-years-old. And the only thing they've been doing has been smoking marijuana for the last year or two," Stone said.
It's not just your stereotypical stoner. They're family people working at places such as Microsoft and Amazon."
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
He’s in a Gospel bluegrass band. Go figure.
I ride my bicycle to work in Memphis. I can smell a house that has weed inside. Not burning / smoking weed, just a house that has weed inside! The aroma of good weed in this century is like trying to hide a pissed off skunk. I can even smell it in a vehicle that passes me on the road or at a traffic light. They aren’t even smoking the stuff!
Pot is the new Soma...........................
“why so many kids seem so bat crazy”
Pot?...NOT. It’s gotta be from all those kiddie drugs like Ritalin and the antidepressants like Prozac. Their parents started them on it when they were young and it changed their brains. It’s the legal prescription meds that are screwing people up, except for heroin, cocaine, PCP, crystal meth, etc.
It’s way stronger than the days of Acapulco gold and even wacky weed. Many people became absolutely paranoid and bat crap crazy even from the old stuff so just imagine what the stuff today can do to a person or kid.
“Stop scratching your heads why so many kids seem so bat crazy. From the deranged and paranoid snowflakes on campus to the delusional mass shooters, the problem might be the onset of new strains of marijuana. “
Or even plain old home grown strains. In the late 70s what little I smoked a couple of times per year, left me feeling badly trying to get to sleep. Badly enough, that I decided “what is the point of the stuff?”
I can as well, and it doesn’t smell like the old stuff used to. I can tell at stop lights when the car next to me is toking up without having to look!.........................
Only in America can a school teacher recommend/prescribe ritalin:-(
Hmmm. I heard that some list of “gateway” drugs had removed marijuana from the list but still maintained cigs and booze on the “gateway” drug list. So see, someone recognizes that it’s all harmless fun. FAIL! So, 50 years down the road, will it become demonized like tobacco?
Here’s my theory about it.
The so-called “Medical Marijuana” initiative was a loophole or an end-around the marijuana laws. Meaning that while sure there are some cancer patients that derive some benefit from so-called “medical marijuana” the real agenda was just doing an end-around of the laws. Basically as depicted so well in the South Park episode on the subject.
However a funny thing happened along the way. Although the “Medical Marijuana” really came about as a scam or a subterfuge the stoners started believing their own BS and now there is this widespread perception that marijuana is “natural”, “a plant”, “medicinal”, “good for you” and on and on and on.
It may be some of these things, it’s certainly not all of these things but it has acquired this aura not so much of respectability but of “health”. While meanwhile as others have pointed out, it’s strength/potency etc. has increased due to what is basically natural selection as the market has pushed it in that direction.
So now we have a nation of stoned out zombies smoking the stuff, some of whom tolerate it ok but many of whom don’t. Maybe this all would have happened absent “Medical Marijuana” but I contend that this has really accelerated the process.
The days of crumbling your weed to sort out seeds and stems on your vinyl album covers is long gone. The only thing that works to contain the buds odor and VOC's are glass Ball canning jars.
Teachers- What the hell do they know about a kid’s brain, anyway?
Just because they teach doesn’t mean that any of their “stoo-dints” ever learn anything but the bad habit of believing everything they’re told.
Only if production becomes consolidated enough to have large enough companies for the tort lawyers to go after. Right now it's being produced by the kind of small operators that just close up shop when sued.
I can’t imagine smoking/eating enough cannabis required to make yourself psychotic...if it’s actually possible. I suppose if you smoked/dabbed all day every day that eventually you could do yourself serious harm.
Too much of anything is never good for us whether it be cannabis or alcohol or tobacco.
There are zero facts in this article, it’s all anecdotes and speculation. How much have cases of MJ-caused psychosis increased? 10%? 100%? 1000%?
In any case, no honest and informed person with real knowledge of the drug would ever say that it’s harmless. It’s a psychoactive substance, and some people react poorly to them, especially people who were prone to psychosis in the first place.
I will be as forthright as I can be, perhaps unwisely so on a public forum — I used to smoke pot. I stopped in the 90’s when it seemed that the pot I was getting was more powerful than anything I had ever seen. I stopped enjoying it because any amount was too much. I didn’t want to get stoned off one “toke” ... even one hit was more than I wanted in terms of effect. I can’t imagine smoking that stuff anymore since its only gotten stronger since then. In perhaps more understandable terms the pot from the 70’s and 80’s was beer, the pot from the 90’s till today is moonshine.
We do.
Health wise. Of course if it’s pulling in enough tax dollars, it won’t matter.
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