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XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, alt.society.mental-health From: leroysoetoro@barackobama.com

https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/17/research-links-potent-marijuana- psychosis/

Back in March, we looked at some statistics out of Great Britain
suggesting that incidents of psychosis were anywhere from three to five
times higher among regular consumers of THC than in the general
population. That study came with a few caveats, suggesting that more
research would be required to nail down precisely what was going on. But
now that pot has been legal in Colorado and Washington state for a few
years, additional troubling statistics are cropping up. It’s particularly problematic with teens, who are not supposed to be able to buy THC
products but seem to be getting their hands on them easily. Mental health professionals are seeing more medical issues arising and they blame it on
the high concentrations of THC in edibles and vaping compounds.
(Washington Post)

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With some marijuana products averaging 68 percent THC — exponentially
greater than the pot baby boomers once smoked — calls to poison control
centers and visits to emergency rooms have risen. In the Denver area,
visits to Children’s Hospital Colorado facilities for treatment of cyclic vomiting, paranoia, psychosis and other acute cannabis-related symptoms
jumped to 777 in 2015, from 161 in 2005.

The increase was most notable in the years following legalization of
medical sales in 2009 and retail use in 2014, according to a study in the Journal of Adolescent Health published in 2018.

“Horrible things are happening to kids,” said psychiatrist Libby Stuyt,
who treats teens in southwestern Colorado and has studied the health
impacts of high-potency marijuana. “I see increased problems with
psychosis, with addiction, with suicide, with depression and anxiety.”

I was already beginning to have my doubts about this, but the more
research we see coming out, the more I wonder if I missed the boat on the
issue entirely. For a long time, I held a rather laissez-faire attitude
toward pot legalization, but then I’m a boomer who grew up in the sixties
and seventies. While my own understanding was totally anecdotal, I don’t
recall ever hearing about people becoming addicted to marijuana (though it
can certainly turn into a habit) and the health effects appeared to be
minimal at best. Of course, if you turned into a stoner who sat around
getting high all day, you probably weren’t going to be able to get a job
or make much of your life, but that’s just the consequences of your own choices, right?

Now, however, things seem to have changed. I had no idea that the concentrations of THC in some of these products were more than 60%. Most
of the skunk weed that was floating around back in the day would barely
get people stoned (or so I’ve heard… ahem). I’m guessing that the concentrations were only a tiny fraction of what we’re seeing now. So
while I’m not a doctor and claim no medical expertise in this field, it
seems obvious that if you upgrade the concentration of any drug to a
sufficient level, the effects on the human body, including the brain, are
going to be amplified as well.

People being regularly treated for “cyclic vomiting, paranoia, psychosis,
and other acute cannabis-related symptoms” on a regular basis should be
enough to give us pause. It’s not as if we don’t already have enough
problems with mental illness, depression, and suicide in this country. We
don’t need to be breeding an entire generation of kids that wind up being
even more susceptible. As I said above, I haven’t traditionally been an opponent of marijuana legalization, and I still think there are probably
some useful pain relief applications for medical marijuana, but I’m
beginning to believe legalization for recreational use might have been
rushed through too quickly.

TAGS: MARIJUANA POT LEGALIZATION PSYCHOPATH


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