Cannabis and the Violent Crime Surge

WSJ ^ | 6 June 2022 | Allysia Finley

[DUMBGRUNT]

Heavy marijuana use among youths is leading to more addiction and antisocial behavior.

... Mass shooters at Rep. Gibby Giffords’s constituent meeting in Tucson, Ariz. (2011), a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. (2012), the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. (2016), the First Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas (2017), and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. (2018), were reported to be marijuana users. It could be a coincidence, but increasing evidence suggests a connection.

THC, the chemical that causes a euphoric high, interacts with the brain’s neuron receptors involved with pleasure. Marijuana nowadays on average is about four times as potent as in 1995. But dabs—portions of concentrated cannabis—can include 20 times as much THC as joints did in the 1960s.

...Cannabis-induced psychosis, she said, is fairly common. Some patients she treated experienced cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome from long-term use, which causes “scromiting”—screaming and vomiting. There’s no antidote. Some patients spend weeks in the emergency room waiting for placement in mental-health clinics.

...Some legalization proponents claim that other countries where marijuana is widely available have fewer mental-health problems than the U.S. But a study from Denmark last summer found that schizophrenia cases associated with pot addiction have increased three- to fourfold over the past 20 years as marijuana potency rose 200%.

...Maybe it’s time that lawmakers and voters rethink their pot-legalization experiment before more young lives are damaged.

[Rockingham]

I urge you (and others) to research the medical and other scientific evidence about the harms of marijuana and to think through the issue. You then complain about the evidence being behind paywalls, so I show how to get at the evidence in spite of paywalls. For doing so, you call me arrogant. Perhaps I am, but if so, it is because I know the facts and the issue. When the medical and scientific evidence is known to contenders in an argument, then that is where the discussion goes instead of to insults.

Let us approach the issue in a new way. If one equates marijuana and alcohol, should marijuana be broadly legal but prohibited to the young up to 21 in the same way that alcohol is illegal for them? If so, why? If not, why not?

And, like alcohol, should marijuana be barred to those who abuse it and get into legal trouble? Or barred or restricted as a matter of course as a condition of pretrial release and post-trial probation?

[dennisw]

Many rappers are puffing away all day and singing about it. This glorification of MJ gets black youf on the same track. This makes for more drive by shootings and crimes.

White youth are also getting ruined brains from marijuana. They cannot pass employment drug testing. No wonder the supply chain is so screwed these days.

[TheStickman]

“I urge you (and others) to research the medical and other scientific evidence about the harms of marijuana and to think through the issue.”

ASSumes I haven’t done so already numerous times. Laughable. Fallacious to boot.

ASSumptions = ass for brains.
Fallacy = zero credibility.