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Weed Makes You Crazy and Gives You Heart Disease. Why’s It Legal?
New York Post ^ | Sep. 29, 2023

Posted on 09/29/2023 4:08:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The evidence for keeping weed illegal keeps mounting — even as the laws get looser. A new, peer-reviewed study (on a significant data set of nearly 60,000 Canadians) has shown that adults who misuse pot have a 60% higher risk of experiencing their first heart attack, stroke, or other major cardiovascular event.

In other words: Weed’s not a harmless vice. It’s a killer, like cigarettes. And unlike cigarettes, it literally drives people insane.

A massive Danish study based on nearly 7 million health records drew a strong correlation between heavy cannabis use and increased risk of schizophrenia in young men.

That’s to say nothing of the fact that pot, no matter what its advocates claim, likely serves as a gateway drug: Evidence suggests a link between cannabis use in kids and later opioid use, and the drug can play a role in rewiring the reward circuitry in young brains.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: alcohol; cannabis; copd; dope; ganja; grass; marijuana; maryjane; mentalillness; nannystate; reefermadness; schizophrenia; thcparanoia; tobacco; weed; weedisqanon
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To: nickcarraway

Why is it legal? Because it isn’t tobacco . Maybe some day it will be tobacco but it isn’t yet.


21 posted on 09/29/2023 4:24:41 PM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: roving

“My daughter has been able to kick the hard drugs and alcohol, but can’t kick the marijuana.”

I had a harder time quitting alcohol than marijuana; everyone is different.


22 posted on 09/29/2023 4:25:11 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: TalBlack

“Why is it legal? Because it isn’t tobacco .”

Tobacco is legal.


23 posted on 09/29/2023 4:25:57 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: nickcarraway

Because Prohibition failed.


24 posted on 09/29/2023 4:26:33 PM PDT by x
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To: Rattlesnake_Snook

Millions of people: Ahem, let’s not.


25 posted on 09/29/2023 4:28:34 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah but shoving a 6 inch nail up your nostril is bad for you too, so why not ban that?


26 posted on 09/29/2023 4:28:51 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Fungi

Were the fatalities among immune-compromised chemo patients? I know that they test legal weed for fungi...and fungicides.


27 posted on 09/29/2023 4:29:28 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: nickcarraway

How many times do we have to say it?

DEPOPULATION AGENDA


28 posted on 09/29/2023 4:30:18 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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To: Rattlesnake_Snook

Because democrat communists want people controlled.


29 posted on 09/29/2023 4:30:30 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: kaktuskid
You know not of what you speak.

I smoked just as strong cannabis back in the early 80’s, and constantly up to currently.

So what if it has more THC than weaker strains? Do you actually comprehend the statement “One Hit Shit”? My meaning being, you smoke what you desire till you get where you're happy.

Need I elaborate further?

Also, yes, legal cannabis has the THC content percentage on its packaging.

30 posted on 09/29/2023 4:30:39 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: nickcarraway

Weed is legal so that rebellious kids will experiment with other drugs like Tranq and fentanyl.


31 posted on 09/29/2023 4:30:59 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NobleFree

Coming of age in the ‘60s, I knew a ton of people who were smokin’ rope. Some of them were smokin’ rope because they were insane. None of them were insane because they were smokin’ rope.


32 posted on 09/29/2023 4:32:13 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: nickcarraway

Because the ignorant, ill, impaired are far, far easier to rule.

For Deep State legal weed is a hat trick.


33 posted on 09/29/2023 4:33:00 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: conservativeimage

“DEPOPULATION AGENDA”

LMAO! If the literal poisons alcohol and nicotine haven’t gotten the job done, cannabis doesn’t stand a chance.


34 posted on 09/29/2023 4:33:27 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: nickcarraway

Are we going here again?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtngFEE5t1E


35 posted on 09/29/2023 4:33:33 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Aut Pax Aut Bellum

Legal weed doesn’t make the state that much money.

It’s too expensive.

That’s not why it’s legal.


36 posted on 09/29/2023 4:34:36 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: hardspunned

I noticed no one mentioned chocolate...(ducks)


37 posted on 09/29/2023 4:37:12 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (Stand Fast! God knows what He is doing!)
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To: nickcarraway

I think it’s legal because Weed seems to make you Liberal.


38 posted on 09/29/2023 4:37:45 PM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: Beowulf9

Unlike then, today everyone who hasn’t tried pot themselves knows someone who has - the Reefer Madness ignorance can’t fly. One wonders enjoy the Post is beating this dead horse.


39 posted on 09/29/2023 4:39:54 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: joma89

So sports like the NFL?


40 posted on 09/29/2023 4:40:12 PM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook
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