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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: joma89

Yeah I think so and also the tax is 24% at those weed stores.


41 posted on 09/29/2023 4:42:04 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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“enjoy” -> why


42 posted on 09/29/2023 4:42:42 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: Rattlesnake_Snook

Give them bread and circuses....and drugs.


43 posted on 09/29/2023 4:44:03 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: nickcarraway

44 posted on 09/29/2023 4:45:18 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Biden would give Jesse James the train schedule for his 10%.)
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To: Pox

Also, a lot of hippies were smoking leaf. The risks involved in growing made selling leaf a going proposition. People pretty much throw it away, now. The stench of burning rope has been replaced with skunk bud.


45 posted on 09/29/2023 4:45:59 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Dandy

How long does it take you to ride 60 miles?


46 posted on 09/29/2023 4:47:00 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: x
Because Prohibition failed.

Never realized you were a libertarian.

47 posted on 09/29/2023 4:48:00 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: No name given

Weed and pornography gp hand in hand.


48 posted on 09/29/2023 4:48:58 PM PDT by conserv8 (If you knew how near God was, you would not be doing that.)
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To: nickcarraway

Weed makes you crazy because it rewards your temporary changes in perception with a high.

The old behavioral psychology tells you the answer.

Pavlov was a genius, but do we call behavioral psychology Pavlovian Psychology? No. Freud gets the adjective but not Pavlov.


49 posted on 09/29/2023 4:49:32 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: conserv8

gp - go


50 posted on 09/29/2023 4:50:48 PM PDT by conserv8 (If you knew how near God was, you would not be doing that.)
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To: NobleFree

“One wonders enjoy the Post is beating this dead horse”.

Huh? What does THAT mean?

Ok. Is this Cheech or Chong?


51 posted on 09/29/2023 4:51:11 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: nickcarraway

My lifetime experience says stupid people seek out weed and smart people rarely do, they do, but rarely.


52 posted on 09/29/2023 4:51:36 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: conserv8

“Weed and pornography gp hand in hand.”

Will you also tell us that going to the gym makes you a nazi?


53 posted on 09/29/2023 4:51:48 PM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook
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To: BipolarBob

Now the government encourages people to take it.


54 posted on 09/29/2023 4:51:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

“Now the government encourages people to take it.”

So why aren’t you complaining that the government is also encouraging people to smoke cigs and drink alcohol?


55 posted on 09/29/2023 4:53:00 PM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook
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To: All

The government wants people to smoke weed so I doubt we will get much in terms of anti-pot propaganda like we did with Cigarettes.


56 posted on 09/29/2023 4:54:40 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Beowulf9

As I self-corrected a few posts later:

“enjoy” -> why


57 posted on 09/29/2023 4:57:16 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: gundog
Well,from my understanding, at least locally, basically nothing goes to waste.

Leaf and substandard grows are now sold in bulk, cheap, to people who process it and extract the THC that is present, getting the final product in the mid to high 90’s percent purity, and sell it.

Back in the 80’s, I once plucked a bunch of leaves off a lone plant growing all summer on a hill in Meigs county, OH. Took that leaf home and dried it out quickly in an oven, and that stuff really put me on my butt! Tunnel vision as well. Just from the leaves!!

You just never know. :)

58 posted on 09/29/2023 4:57:50 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: nickcarraway

Used pot daily for 50 years, still do. Had a successful business career, retired comfortably at 62, raised two happy healthy kids that finished school and never got in trouble. Own 2 houses, live in a foreign country for half the year (Texas is just too hot in summer and cold in winter) and travel to Europe every couple of years. Tried a couple of other drugs at parties (back in the 90s) and never liked them. Ran half marathons, still run, walk or yoga daily and my life expectancy is 93.
When will all this bad stuff start for me?


59 posted on 09/29/2023 4:57:53 PM PDT by Jolla
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To: nickcarraway

The enormous hypocrisy is that the government doesn’t say a word about sucking the smoke into one’s lungs after years of preaching that smoking cigarettes is dangerous to your health. Is there a more incredible hypocrite than your government?


60 posted on 09/29/2023 4:58:30 PM PDT by iontheball
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