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Marijuana and psychosis: Real data, real bad
Christian Post ^ | April 4, 2019 | John Stonestreet and Roberto Rivera

Posted on 04/04/2019 1:01:56 PM PDT by kaehurowing

Both groups were surveyed on a host of factors, including their use of marijuana and other drugs. The study’s authors concluded that “people who smoked marijuana on a daily basis were three times more likely to be diagnosed with psychosis compared with people who never used the drug. For those who used high-potency marijuana daily, the risk jumped to nearly five times."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: busybodies; cannabis; dopersrights; drugs; freedom; godsplant; liberty; marijuana; medicine; mentalillness; miracledrug; pot; potheads; psychosis; psychoticreaction; reefermadness; smellslikefreedom; sorosagenda; whytheycallitdope; wod
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To: Teacher317
Pathetic screeds like this are openly mocked, just as the 50s pot-panic movies like "Reefer Madness" were.

Go read the research. There's a lot of it out there if you actually care to look for it:

Legalizing Marijuana is a Terrible Idea

Scroll about half-way down the linked article for about 15 articles from the research literature on the damage cannabis use does to the brain.
61 posted on 04/04/2019 1:47:13 PM PDT by Antoninus ("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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To: steve86

Both.

I’m sure using Google or another browser you will find the stats and data.


62 posted on 04/04/2019 1:47:37 PM PDT by caww
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To: Borges

Eh. These are always target based “studies”. They never bother to find out if the person had problems before. Never compare to other psycho-actives like booze, or energy drinks. They don’t even see what happens when the person quits.


63 posted on 04/04/2019 1:48:25 PM PDT by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: Windflier

Hang in there. Wife went through that. It is true every little bit of anti-cancer activity helps, but It is not a medically acknowledged benefit in vivo of CBD, THC, or other cannabinol.


64 posted on 04/04/2019 1:48:56 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: kaehurowing

It is correctly referred to as self-medicating. Peculiar, the study makes no attempt to determine if THC treated the level of psychotic episodes.

Perhaps, agenda driven.


65 posted on 04/04/2019 1:49:42 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Regulator

I’m not opposed to the state helping people to have self control. Especially when the state is expected to pick up the pieces when people don’t exercise self control.

But I kind of liked Trump’s pre-campaign idea of legalizing it, taxing it and using the proceeds to educate people.


66 posted on 04/04/2019 1:52:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

“I hate pot and I hate being around potheads.”

In Vietnam, I found out the hard way that people may be able to smoke pot and do a lot of things, but flying helicopters isn’t one of them when a helicopter crashed while putting me and my recon team into an LZ in the A Shau Valley. An investigation found that the pilot and crew had been up all night the night before smoking pot.
http://www.projectdelta.net/the_ashau.htm


67 posted on 04/04/2019 1:55:00 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: shanover

I can only say that I can walk out of my building right now, and I will see at least 2 - 3 people stoned out of their brains or passed out on the sidewalk.


68 posted on 04/04/2019 1:57:32 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: steve86
It is not a medically acknowledged benefit in vivo of CBD, THC, or other cannabinol.

No, it's not medically recognized, but that's due to the fact that the world's leading pharmaceutical companies control the medical establishment in the West.

It's not in their financial interests to support the widespread usage of an effective cancer treatment that anyone can make in their own kitchen, from a plant they can grow for pennies.

Bottom line: You're not allowed to kill a trillion dollar industry.

69 posted on 04/04/2019 1:57:54 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bassmaner

Then how did we survive before 1937?


People weren’t as stupid before 1937.


70 posted on 04/04/2019 1:58:29 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: AppyPappy

It is...was a pesticide for sometime. It’s also, highly addictive. I know because I just about lost my mind and several friends quitting cold turkey 25 years ago. Then got myself hooked on chew 10 years after quitting smoking. Getting off the chew was harder than the cigs! Nicotine f’s up your brain and dopamine receptors big-time and it takes a while to recover one you stop using. Each time I got hooked on nicotine I didn’t continue to smoke or chew because it was so pleasurable. I did it not to go through withdrawal. Anyone who says they do NOT get physical and mental withdrawals is lying. That being said, I couldn’t care less if people want to use nicotine, alcohol, pot, heroin or whatever. I just don’t understand why a person would want to be a slave, an addict, to any drug...legal or not.


71 posted on 04/04/2019 2:02:30 PM PDT by Ribeye (Cranial Protection Equipment courtesy of Reynolds Aluminum)
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To: varyouga; KC_Lion
These correlation studies do not prove any cause

But they do serve the prohibitionist agenda.

72 posted on 04/04/2019 2:03:53 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: kaehurowing; NobleFree; TheStickman; dainbramaged; beaversmom; T-Bone Texan; dljordan; ...

For your interest.


73 posted on 04/04/2019 2:04:01 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: kaehurowing
I can only say that I can walk out of my building right now, and I will see at least 2 - 3 people stoned out of their brains or passed out on the sidewalk.

$100 says those people are on something besides MJ, regardless of whether they also smoked pot. I live and work in an area where there are a lot of vagrant derelicts lying around and probably all of them smoke pot, and they do meth and heroin. Which do you think made them pass out on your sidewalk?

You know how we like to make fun of the media because everything to them is an assault rifle? Well, when it comes to these ridiculous pot threads, to a lot of you Reefer Madness freepers, everything that isn't alcohol is marijuana.
74 posted on 04/04/2019 2:08:55 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: kaehurowing
The few pot users I have known did not exactly fire on all cylinders before they started using.
Regardless where it starts, pot use certainly did not improve these individuals in any way.

75 posted on 04/04/2019 2:13:45 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: BitWielder1

A lot of pot users also tend to abuse alcohol.


76 posted on 04/04/2019 2:15:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (This week I'm dfwredraider)
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To: Reno89519

“The damage is real and it is national suicide to be legalizing pot”

...one of about 1000 different ways we are committing national suicide these days. We could make good profit making book on which one kills the nation first.


77 posted on 04/04/2019 2:17:28 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

My opinion has always been legalize all drugs, guarantee the highest purity possible, make them as cheap as possible.
Then, ZERO public funded medical care of any type for OD’s or other drug related problems, ZERO public funded assistance, ZERO public funded rehabilitation, ZERO public funded “even second” hand programs of any type.
Then IMMEDIATE EXECUTION for any drug related crimes committed by users or suppliers.
They have enough money to buy their drug of choice, then they have enough money to SUPPORT THEMSELVES.


78 posted on 04/04/2019 2:17:57 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: kaehurowing

In answer to the pot defenders that toss out stuff like “my cousin smoked 6 joints a day and won a Nobel Prize in physics” let me say this...

1. Your cousin is still an idiot. Imagine how far they would have gotten had they not smoked dope!

2. People are different. What is a carcinogen to you may not be one to me. I might be able to have 3 beers and barely be buzzed and you might drink three and be under the table. We are talking about trends, not absolutes.

3. There is no “one size fits all” for marijuana. Being a botanical, there can be wildly varying level of THC along with other substances that can change the chemical make up of the plant.

4. Stop comparing marijuana to alcohol. Just...stop...you sound stupid.


79 posted on 04/04/2019 2:24:02 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Crusher138
In answer to the pot defenders that toss out stuff like “my cousin smoked 6 joints a day and won a Nobel Prize in physics” let me say this... 1. Your cousin is still an idiot. Imagine how far they would have gotten had they not smoked dope!

Maybe they do not care about how far YOU want them to go, and they went exactly as far as THEY wanted to go... that pesky Freedom thing...

2. People are different. What is a carcinogen to you may not be one to me. I might be able to have 3 beers and barely be buzzed and you might drink three and be under the table. We are talking about trends, not absolutes.
4. Stop comparing marijuana to alcohol. Just...stop...you sound stupid.

As stupid as self-contradicting points in a single post? Hint: You just compared alcohol to marijuana.

3. There is no “one size fits all” for marijuana. Being a botanical, there can be wildly varying level of THC along with other substances that can change the chemical make up of the plant.

And yet you oppose it on grounds of what it MIGHT do for the very worst cases. Until you oppose peanuts and pets and pollen, your point has zero validity.

80 posted on 04/04/2019 2:28:31 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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