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More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering from Psychosis

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Re: More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering from Psychosis

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Post by red-iron-pine »

I believe this.

My ex's whole family smoked like chimneys, but she had a few bad experiences and essentially went straight-edge outside of the occasional glass of red wine.

Her older brother had serious psychosis issues and was even institutionalized for it briefly. Was on meds, had a few rough years.

Eventually he quit because his then girlfriend got him a job at one of the few remaining Blockbusters and they demanded drug-free, ironically enough. He liked working there, and between him and the girlfriend, quit smoking. Maybe a year later he dropped the schizophrenia meds and started working out. The transformation happened while I was with my ex and it was amazing to see it play out. Like, dude was basically crazy, and in a couple years was managing a video store, had a gf, and got his shit together.

Perfectly normal guy since, at least last I heard.

Re: More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering from Psychosis

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Post by denkmoon »

throwitaway222 wrote: post #17
denkmoon wrote: post #11

Ok then. If we take the hypothesis at face value, what is to be done about it? Prohibition obviously isn't a solution as that's the status quo - it's already illegal for teens to buy and consume cannabis.

Remove it from people that are older so that people that are younger don't have access.

Doesn't seem very fair or consistent with how we balance individual freedom vs societal costs of other recreational drugs.

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Post by jdietrich »

mpol wrote: post #51
jdietrich wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cannabis is a risk factor in schizophrenia, but it is a million miles from being the risk factor. Happy, healthy young people with stable family lives rarely use cannabis on a daily basis; conversely, people with troubled childhoods and pre-existing mental health problems are most at risk from heavy cannabis use. If the goal is preventing severe mental illness, then the best solution we've got right now is coordinate…

Can someone explain was this was being downvoted?

I don't want to cast any aspersions, but I've generally had bad luck with comments that boil down to "this is a complex psychosocial problem and the only credible response is a complex psychosocial intervention".

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Post by forgingahead »

thefz wrote: post #48

I have several friends who smoke regularly, lots. In the range of 5,7,10 joints per day. My opinion is that you can't, in your 40s, expect to be a functional adult with that amount of THC constantly in you. It just shows, you are slow and dull and sometimes dumb. Every time I bring this up, they go all defensive. They would not change their habit a little bit.

> Every time I bring this up, they go all defensive. They would not change their habit a little bit.

This is the biggest issue, and I'm honestly shocked that so many supposed adults in positions of authority have basically taken the position of "I like to smoke, so it's not that bad, I'm ok right? Don't insult me by saying I'm negatively affected. Of course we shouldn't control or ban this."

It's incredibly....childish. I picture 5 year olds tucking into ice-cream, and with the sugar high, just throwing absolute tantrums when you try take it away from them.

Drugs are bad, marijuana needs to be controlled like all drugs, and harsh actions need to be taken now to arrest this slide otherwise there is no turning back already.

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Post by DSS928 »

I think it’s more the FACT we have closed state mental hospitals in favor of releasing mentally ill people on society. It’s not just marijuana users either, I’m not sure of the exact numbers but mental illness is more prevalent in people born during the Millenial generation moving forward today. The real difference isn’t the potency of cannabis, it’s the FACT that not “One” but they all “Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Bring back state mental health institutions and dollars to doughnuts we WILL be in a safer and more productive society.
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