In before the angry cries of the “wake and bake” crowd.
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Reefer Madness?
Some people go crazy with alcohol, why does it become impossible to recognize reefer causing mental conditions for some people?
Has their been studies on it?
More likely psych drugs
why do you think they call it dope?
I’ve got an old friend who lives in Houston, a long time cannabis smoker. You can’t convince him with any argument it’s bad.
Now the bizarre part.
He has 1 1/2 lungs. He had a tumor removed along with half of one lung about x years ago. He has COPD on what is remaining.
BTW he’s not an old hippy, just the opposite politically. He’s an old rocker, biker, Pit Bull enthusiast sort.
No..
But, if you check his medical background, I would bet a days wages that he on some type of prescribed psycotropic drug..ie..
xanax, prosac, etc.
All the looney tune shoots have been on or withdrawing from their use
ALL OF THEM
Reefer? Who writes this stuff? Damon Runyon?
If he smoked pot then he didn’t buy those guns legally.
With the potency of today’s reefer I wouldn’t be surprised.
I have read articles more than once about a connection of young males, pot and schizophrenia. My best buddies younger Brother fits that description.
No. Bad parenting, a corrupt social media world, and SSRIs drove him there…
Saying it was weaker 20 years ago sounds like old scare tactics. I remember 30 years ago when people would say, Oh, the stuff in the 60’s was mild, but the stuff today is way too potent!
Tobacco use is extremely CORRELATED with schizophrenia and something like 60-80% of mentally ill heavily smoke cigarettes depending on the study. Several times more than average population so there is far stronger correlation for crazy people to smoke cigs than use cannabis.
Tobacco studies admit it is most likely correlation due to mentally ill more likely to self medicate. Tobacco offers the mentally ill some relief so they are simply much more likely to abuse it after trying. They don’t attempt to say that correlation of tobacco abuse and being schizo means smoking “MAY HAVE CAUSED” it.
In a true apples-to-apples twin study to determine actual causation (not just statistical correlation), ZERO brain differences were detected in the cannabis abusing twins. Not a single case of damage or insanity when twins were compared.
While twins abusing alcohol were shown to have brain damage detectable in scans by age 24!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33726938/
Now do Zoloft. Tucker listed off all the prescription drugs most of these shooters were on. Could be a combo of both pot and scripts. Will JAMA do a study on Big Pharma drugs' affects on the same age group? Doubtful.
Some Zoloft side effects: manic episodes - racing thoughts, increased energy, unusual risk-taking behavior
Prozac: mood or behavior changes, anxiety, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, or if you feel impulsive, irritable, agitated, hostile, aggressive, restless, hyperactive (mentally or physically), more depressed
Celexa: new or worse depression or anxiety, panic attacks, trouble sleeping, or if you feel impulsive, irritable, agitated, hostile, aggressive, restless, more active or talkative, or have thoughts about suicide or hurting yourself.
Same with all the rest. Sudden mood changes, impulsive, irritable, hostile, aggressive, restless, more depressed.
This Highland Park guy went from depressed/suicidal to hostile/aggressive as per police reports. Wanted to kill himself and then later, wanted to kill everyone else.
Messed up family, messed up culture, school and everyone else telling males, especially white males that their the scourge of the planet. Now they're feeling life is cruel and useless so lets' stick them on some psyche meds.
‘Obviously weed didn’t make them commit their evil acts, but it may have scrambled their brains enough for empathy to take a holiday.’
and it may not have, right, Miranda...?
gotta love all these weed commentators that have never experienced the substance itself; very much like lunatic teetotallers who bullied the country into the Volstead Act proudly flaunted their blinding ignorance...
My beautiful, handsome smart as a whip son started smoking weed at age 14 and turned into a rageful sulking high school drop out who is now isolated from the rest of us and basically nonfunctional. He is on the mental health radar. There was no help to be had. I am a lawyer and I spoke to lawyers, judges, mental health professionals, police officers, crisis counselors. My ex is general counsel for a hospital. He spoke to hospital administrators, lawyers, police officers, psychologists etc. There is no help to be had. The families are left to their own devices to deal with these kids. And yes, marijuana is a gateway drug. My other children “turned out” beautifully, praise God. It is heartbreaking and I pray for my son daily and I pay his bills. I don’t want him in prison or under a bridge.
Drove him right to Burger King™ for a Whopper™
My son also does not live with me because I was afraid of him and I had clients to represent. He was too disruptive to the household. He lives in a house he owns, pretty basic, that I pay for. Otherwise he would be evicted I am sure. There is no mental health care in this country. A national embarrassment.