Posted on 06/07/2022 11:00:12 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
That way when the pot worshippers fry their brains from persistent use (as pot smokers tend to do nowadays unlike decades ago) the rest of us won't be on the hook for their food and housing.
Oh some at FR will be unhappy with this data
IF that were true every catholic mass would have arrests
her name is gabby...
you wanna hit?... 😁
Kind of interesting, because pro-pot has been a big Democrat and libertarian issue for years. I am ambivalent about its medicinal effects, but its social effects aren’t good.
I remember an old drug and alcohol counselor saying, “I’m not going to argue about whether its addictive or the trapdoor to other drugs, but I will tell you that smoking it makes you not worth a damn. You won’t want to do anything bit sit on the couch and eat Cheetos.”
“Really? So someone who’s never been violent would never get violent while drunk?”
I did not say that.
I said it is not the tool that is the problem, it is the person who misuses it.
And let us not forget her gun-grabber husband, Sen. Mork Kelly...
;>)
They are going to turn us into a third world basket case, take away everything we hold dear, and also refuse us any anesthetic. Thanks, WSJ.
This is ‘Reefer Madness’-level nonsense. Has the author ever met any pot smokers? If anything, it makes them mellow and slows them down.
Now, it is psychoactive and may reduce motivation in some people. On the other hand, there are plenty of people like Elon Musk who use weed and are high achievers.
The article is just scare-mongering.
yeh, same here.
gave me temporary memory loss.
couldn’t keep up with the plot line of a movie.
also made me talk alot.
bif f’n deal.
wasn’t my thing.
LOL
yeh, considering over half of American uses it from time to time.
I dislike Cheetos, regardless of what I ingest.
There is no limit to the human desire to control the behavior of others.
LOL, “drug and alcohol counselor.”
These people were already violent.
Are you referring to drunks?
More broadly, just as there are happy drunks, mean drunks, and violent drunks, there are mellow pot heads, erratic and unpredictable pot heads, and violent pot heads. It is not just a matter of moderation or excess but that the effects of a drug can vary greatly from one person to another, even from one occasion to another.
With prescription drugs and over the counter drugs, strict controls on purity and dosage and medical supervision and warnings on labels help to guard against dangerous adverse reactions. With legal recreational drugs like alcohol, and illegal ones like marijuana though it is a matter of individual choice and circumstance. And some people like getting charged up on alcohol or illegal drugs. Indeed, criminals often get high before committing crimes -- and cheap, easily available marijuana is often the drug of choice for that purpose or a key part of the mix.
Again, do not take my word for it. Go to a homeless encampment and sniff the air or interview criminals and ask what drugs are used for what purposes. Or read the studies and reports of those who have done so as professionals. There are even a number of studies that rely on hospital and morgue drawn blood samples that show the involvement of marijuana in violent crime and accidents.
The bottom line is that marijuana has a range of effects and offers dangers to self and others that, in the aggregate, mean that a rise in marijuana use leads to a rise in violent crime. If you doubt it, then ask yourself why, as a matter of common sense, if marijuana use "makes you mellow, hungry and sleepy," why are homeless encampments such dangerous places?
Not buying it, no sale.
These people are not slaughtering young kids because of pot. That’s ridicules. The truth is, anyone who’d do what the mental case in Uvalde did, was very disturbed before they ever touched pot. No way can you blame cannabis for these horrific mass murders.
The ugly truth is we’re not caring for our own people who clearly have mental issues. Homeless mental cases are everywhere. We all know the story. What a disgrace!
A big reason for this is we’re to damn busy sending billions out in foreign aid, Ukraine, all them. Hundreds of billions! Enough to build and staff dozens of mental hospitals/facilities from coast to coast.
See door #38.
Cheech and Chong
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