Marijuana causes teen psychosis- more evidence
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Anonymous
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PSA: this is not a new discovery; just additional evidence supporting the danger:
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/marijuana-depression-psychosis-869490d1 If your teen uses/vapes marijuana, they are harming their mental health. |
Anonymous
| This is absolutely valid / scary. I saw it firsthand with my brother - and to be clear, I smoked plenty of weed in my youth |
Anonymous
| Obama seems fine and he smoked plenty |
Anonymous
| This is a no-brainer to anyone paying attention. This is another reason why legalization is so detrimental to our communities’ safety and wellbeing. |
Anonymous
| This only happens to people who have psychotic features already present. |
Anonymous
My sister had schizophrenia and out of the countless medications she took marijuana was the only medication that allowed her to sleep. Just the opposite. My friend smoked weed every morning and various other times since she was 14 years old. 35 years later she’s still smoking it. She was a petite teen and as a grownup never gained a pound. Same teen body and no health concerns. I do think psychosis would be triggered only if you were predisposed to it. But not everyone knows their family history or who might be predisposed. |
Anonymous
| This happened to my son a few years ago. Very scary and unexpected since we have no family history. He’s doing well now on medication but it changed his carefree future. He’s in college now close to home so I can check up on him regularly. |
Anonymous
| Marijuana is more potent today. You shouldn’t compare it to when you were young. |
Anonymous
He does not seem fine at all. |
Anonymous
| There was a popular guy in one of my math classes, known for being a pothead. He eventually developed schizophrenia and killed his mother. I believe it. I can’t believe they legalized it. |
Anonymous
And what about the countless kids who are “using” it from birth through secondhand smoke from their parents and may have even had prenatal exposure? How can we possibly think that won’t affect their developing brains? |
Anonymous
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This first paragraphs debunks the whole thing. He was already psychotic and was trying to medicate.
Maybe it was dihydrogen monoxide that triggered the psychosis. He consumed that on the fateful day as well. |
Anonymous
| Pay attention or not at your own peril. As a prior poster noted, this is not Obama's marijuana, or the marijuana of our youth. Marijuana has hundreds of compounds. If you had too much with the old stuff, some of the compounds would make you fall asleep, get drowsy. Others would make you hungry. Now, with edibles, you can overdose on just one of those compounds and find yourself literally tripping for days. I actually encouraged my kids, if they were going to experiment, to do weed instead of potentially overdosing on alcohol. I was so wrong. One child had an episode where they were tripping for three days solid, did not know if they were ever going to be okay again. Tried to handle it themselves, and ended up after the psychotic episode with anxiety and depression (now being treated). Same thing happened to her cousin, but he had to have a week inpatient psychiatric facility stint. Neither have first episode psychosis, they literally had a psychotic episode induced by marijuana. We are not only talking about people that may be predisposed to psychosis (which is also a serious problem), but our "normal" kids having a psychotic episode induced by drugs that they literally cannot handle. |
Anonymous
That’s not what the article says. “Doctors have diagnosed him with a psychotic disorder, brought on by using cannabis.” |
Anonymous
As article explains, what people smoked back in the day is not what is available now in terms of components or potency. |