Posted on 09/26/2015 1:20:15 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Many links in post #1:
Kendal came home one evening to find his 13-year-old son unconscious from what he says was a marijuana overdose.He was gray. His heart wasn’t beating and he wasn’t breathing,” he said.
Kendal used CPR to resuscitate him
The report says “there was a 32 percent increase in marijuana-related traffic deaths” after legal recreational sales began in 2014 (emphasis in the original). Here is an interesting fact about “marijuana-related traffic deaths”: They do not necessarily have anything to do with marijuana. The report uses this phrase to describe fatalities from accidents involving vehicle operators who “tested positive for marijuana,” which could indicate the presence of inactive metabolites or THC levels so low that they had no impact on driving performance. A positive result does not mean a driver was impaired at the time of the crash, let alone that marijuana contributed to the accident.
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In 2014, the report says, “there was a 29 percent increase in the number of marijuana-related emergency room visits” and “a 38 percent increase in the number of marijuana-related hospitalizations.” Like “marijuana-related traffic deaths,” “marijuana-related emergency room visits” and “marijuana-related hospitalizations” are not necessarily marijuana-related. As the report explains, these numbers, also known as “marijuana mentions,” refer to patients whose marijuana use was determined by lab tests, self-reports, or “some other form of validation by the physician.” The fact that a patient had used marijuana at some point “does not necessarily prove marijuana was the cause of the emergency admission or hospitalization.”
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Although the number of marijuana-only calls rose 148 percent between 2012 and 2014, last year’s total, 151, still accounted for just 0.3 percent of the 50,000 or so calls that the poison control center received. The Colorado center does not report outcomes on its website. But according to data from the Washington Poison Center, just 3 percent of marijuana exposure cases involve a “major effect,” and there have been no fatalities.
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But there was a similar divergence between Colorado and the national average before2009. In fact, the rate of past-month use by Colorado teenagers rose by 34 percent between 2006 and 2009, more than three times the increase between 2009 and 2013, while the national average rose by about 4 percent. That hardly fits the story the RMHIDTA wants to tell, according to which greater availability of marijuana from dispensaries, beginning in 2009, resulted in more adolescent pot smoking.
https://reason.com/archives/2015/09/21/marijuana-legalization-disaster-or-catas
The nationally syndicated columnist and Reason magazine editor presents a damning portrait of how politicized government agencies, antidrug activists, and a naïve national media have exaggerated the public's fears of the harmful effects of recreational drugs.The source of that blog sounds like a crazy Dope Fiend. But I'm sure you are OK with that
The study specifically did not show that cannabis use triggered psychosis. In fact, it showed the opposite. Plenty of people in the control group had smoked cannabis and not had a psychotic episode. In fact, patients who had suffered psychosis were no more likely than the control group to have tried cannabis.
Why do you think they call it ‘dope’.
Sure. Except my source isn’t a crazy Dope Fiend.
Btw, once again here you are posting to me only about drugs for the 200+ time. That says a lot about you and your blog source.
Here is a fact - you are angry about people sharing information.
Why?
(we know why)
Wrong already - and another ad hominem.
about people sharing information.
I refute disinformation.
Wrong nothing. You only ever post to me about drugs. You obviously are in turmoil. You falsely attack me as a hypocrite (as I showed) and then you quickly play the crybaby victim. As always.
“http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3256704/posts?page=1 “
From the paper’s abstract:
“We were only able to identify a small number of studies of variable quality, thus our conclusions remain preliminary.” - http://www.jad-journal.com/article/S0165-0327%2814%2900570-9/abstract
From the posted news item:
“a study published this month found marijuana could be used to treat the depression that results from long term stress.”
You say nothing interesting on any other topic - and the things you say on this topic are interesting only because wildly wrong.
You falsely attack me as a hypocrite (as I showed)
You showed only that you don't know what "advocacy" nor "hypocrite" means (which came as no surprise).
This is exactly what the pot sellers, and by extention, the government tax collectors want: Easy money at the expense of people who give up self control.
But drinking improves them?
Don't smoke pot before trying to do math - big deal.
“a study published this month found marijuana could be used to treat the depression that results from long term stress.”If that is true, then why are you only ever posting to me depressed about drug information?
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