Posted on 11/23/2012 7:07:00 AM PST by lbryce
Psychological addiction. That’s all it is. They’ll fight to the death for their love of life. I say open season on potheads. If they test positive after death, no charges.
Not Weasel words, but weasel ‘science.’
What the U.N. wants, it gets. Agenda 21 marches on.
>> I think the “Great Election of 2012” proved this. <<
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You got it almost right; the “Great Elected of 2012” is demanding what our U.N. masters wish.
>> “Wonder why Soros is pushing legalization of pot?” <<
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No longer.
He is now aboard with the U.N. demanding that Washington and Colorado rescind the will of the voters.
>> “What did they learn in second or third grade?” <<
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School breakfast, and school lunch at taxpayer expense. They then graduated to Midnight Basketball.
Perfect training for thuggery.
“Are you saying that psychotherapy is ineffective only against those actively using MJ”
I think you may misunderstand the implications for psychotherapy in the settings of use, versus abuse, versus addiction, versus intoxication with various substances.
First, psychotherapy can be ineffective for a wide variety of reasons, and these reasons may be related to drug use or not. Likewise, impediments to emotional development can occur for a wide variety of reasons unrelated to substances.
Second, many potentially addictive and abusable classes of meds are actually prescribed in psychiatry and medicine, and in the proper therapeutic doses they usually have no significant adverse effect on whether people make good use of psychotherapy or not, and in certain cases can actually facilitate it.
By extension, recreational or intermittent use and even abuse of these same sorts of substances does not entirely bring psychological maturation or the benefits of psychotherapy to a halt the way even small periodic use of MJ does. Once again, this is likely due to its slow clearance from parts of the brain where its effect is to inhibit the laying down of new emotional memories.
Full-out addictive use of daily heavy doses of intoxicants and such is, of course, quite another matter, and you are right that this would be a contraindication for psychotherapy in my practice. But the insidious effect of MJ is that it robs the effectiveness of psychotherapy even in moderate intermittent use, and of all the substances that might undermine psychotherapy it stands alone in this regard IMO.
Hope that clears that up.
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Thought this might interest some ping listees. Some of you may have read my position on marijuana, here it is again:
Make it legal to grow ONLY for personal use. And no one under 21. Illegal to give away, share, trade, or sell. Anyone guilty, public caning. Any bigtime dealers, execution. This brings the price down to nothing, gets rid of professional dope dealers, and those who want to get stupid can do so.
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Thought this might interest some ping listees. Some of you may have read my position on marijuana, here it is again:
Make it legal to grow ONLY for personal use. And no one under 21. Illegal to give away, share, trade, or sell. Anyone guilty, public caning. Any bigtime dealers, execution. This brings the price down to nothing, gets rid of professional dope dealers, and those who want to get stupid can do so.
Researchers can no longer deny the link between marijuana smoking and schizophrenia, just like the point when researchers found that they could no longer deny the link between tobacco and cancer.
I originally read this article through a link from Drudge. Is this the tobacco moment for cannabis?
How many people do you know who you would describe as having fried their brains on drugs? I can name more than a few, but I never really thought that it was the marijuana that did it. Everyone always said that marijuana was harmless.
Not sure I’d attribute MY loss of memory to reefer, buty it IS a gateway element to an entire life structure / style
Even then, there is no one-size-fits-all with medications, licit or illicit, or with brain or hormonal chemistry. With my own extremely clear family history of thyroid illness, it took me decades to get an accurate diagnosis and two additional years to get the proper type and dosage of medication. Meantime, I was treated and mischaracterized for a vast array of diagnostic dead ends. And I lived in the two cities containing the top medical care in the nation during this ordeal.
This study is not just talking about memory loss, they are talking about schizophrenia, serious mental disorders. As they admit, it is difficult to tell which came first, but they claim that the percentage of schizophrenics who are marijuana users indicates a definite connection and they have some studies of brains that show the brain damage from marijuana use is similar to the brain damage in schizophrenics.
One of the studies was done by the same guy who did the study on IQ and marijuana use, possibly on the same group of subjects. It’s curious to me that no mention was made about the link between marijuana and schizophrenia in the first study report.
Anyway, my son in law’s brother is schizophrenic and my son in law has always said that his mental problems were from early drug use. The guy was a good student in high school and a good base ball player and member of the ski team in spite of the drug use, but when he got to college, the drug use escalated and he just flipped out. He is now a full blown schizophrenic, hears voices and everything.
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