Posted on 11/25/2019 5:13:25 AM PST by urtax$@work
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More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
The proliferation of retail boutiques in California did not really bother him, Evan told me, but the billboards did. Advertisements for delivery, advertisements promoting the substance for relaxation, for fun, for health. “Shop. It’s legal.” “Hello marijuana, goodbye hangover.” “It’s not a trigger,” he told me. “But it is in your face.”
When we spoke, he had been sober for a hard-fought seven weeks: seven weeks of sleepless nights, intermittent nausea, irritability, trouble focusing, and psychological turmoil.......
Public-health experts worry about the increasingly potent options available, and the striking number of constant users. “Cannabis is potentially a real public-health problem,” said Mark A. R. Kleiman, a professor of public policy at New York University. ......
For Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, the most compelling evidence of the deleterious effects comes from users themselves. “In large national surveys, about one in 10 people who smoke it say they have a lot of problems. They say things like, ‘I have trouble quitting. I think a lot about quitting and I can’t do it. I smoked more than I intended to. I neglect responsibilities.’ There are plenty of people who have problems with it, in terms of things like concentration, short-term memory, and motivation,” he said. “People will say, ‘Oh, that’s just you fuddy-duddy doctors.’ Actually, no. It’s millions of people who use the drug who say that it causes problems.”
Users or former users I spoke with described lost jobs, lost marriages, lost houses, lost money, lost time. Foreclosures and divorces. .....
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It’s very bad for you. People should not smoke pot. It’s too strong and destroys mental health.
It’s a dropout drug. It ruins your give-a-hooter.
Medicine that increases pain.
All inmates in the Mid Husdon Forensic Psychiatric Institute for the criminally insane were daily users -- "oh, all of them", top Doc.
Twenty-year, 3 times per week users, suffer irreversible 8 point loss in IQ, so that 78% of people are smarter than them.
Doubles risk of adult schizophrenia onset.
The term “pot head” has been around since the 1960s.
Perfectly normal and intelligent folks turned into something else...
Considering the way it is inhaled into the lungs, it is far, far more damaging to the lungs than tobacco.
None of them are actually addicted to pot, because pot is not an addictive substance.
Any of them can quit anytime they want to with no problem.
I get inquiries from western states to supply techs because there are so few out there that can pass drug screening.
Companies that provide services to pharmaceutical companies have to pay for flights from eastern states, hotels, car rentals, etc. because all the western techs are stoners. Pay is $150/hr, X2 for the middleman, X2 for the service provider = $600. If it were a local tech, he’d get $75, X2 for the service provider = $150.
And it is worth it to get people with intact brains.
And some people have been taking xanex for “anxiety” for 20 plus years.
Marijuana good! Tobacco......BAD! 1984 squared.
Should make us a stronger nation, no? More productive, stronger military, increased mental health? That’s the cliche, right, pot smokers are super productive, excel in cognitive abilities? I hope the Chinese don’t legalize pot.
Yeah I was worried that if I took Xanax I ‘d never get off it.
You’re kidding or you’re ignorant... or possibly you’re a pothead.
Gambling is not an addictive substance, but millions are addicted. Pornography is not an addictive substance... but millions are addicted. Jeesh... I do hope you we’re just joking, or maybe just stoned
It only makes sense to a liberal.
Wow. I never saw this coming...
History repeats. From 1670-1750 gin addiction permeated urban British society. It culled the population of many with poor dispositions. Mostly they died and birth rates among them plummeted. Today given the decadence, hedonism and widespread drug use in society, the population is again being culled. A faithful, sober remnant will be at the core of America’s rebirth.
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