Marijuana causes teen psychosis- more evidence

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There has been a nationwide explosion of teen mental health problems over the last 20 years. That is due to SSRI/NSRI/anxiety medications combined with poor social experimenting and parenting.

I believe social media and phones are primarily behind the overwhelming majority of new teen mental health disease cases. It certainly is a huge factor yes.

Do we really want to add Marijuana use to the existing crisis? Marijuana should never have been legalized. Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions.

And before anyone states the obvious (21 is the legal minimum age to smoke Marijuana), the same is true for alcohol yet teens get that often too. There is no way to prevent kids, or adults for that matter, from breaking laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There has been a nationwide explosion of teen mental health problems over the last 20 years. That is due to SSRI/NSRI/anxiety medications combined with poor social experimenting and parenting.

I believe social media and phones are primarily behind the overwhelming majority of new teen mental health disease cases. It certainly is a huge factor yes.

Do we really want to add Marijuana use to the existing crisis? Marijuana should never have been legalized. Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions.

And before anyone states the obvious (21 is the legal minimum age to smoke Marijuana), the same is true for alcohol yet teens get that often too. There is no way to prevent kids, or adults for that matter, from breaking laws.

Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions.

But if it’s legal for adults to smoke, those who live with them and are exposed to their secondhand smoke (especially kids) aren’t getting to make their own decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There has been a nationwide explosion of teen mental health problems over the last 20 years. That is due to SSRI/NSRI/anxiety medications combined with poor social experimenting and parenting.

I believe social media and phones are primarily behind the overwhelming majority of new teen mental health disease cases. It certainly is a huge factor yes.

Do we really want to add Marijuana use to the existing crisis? Marijuana should never have been legalized. Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions.

And before anyone states the obvious (21 is the legal minimum age to smoke Marijuana), the same is true for alcohol yet teens get that often too. There is no way to prevent kids, or adults for that matter, from breaking laws.

Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions.

But if it’s legal for adults to smoke, those who live with them and are exposed to their secondhand smoke (especially kids) aren’t getting to make their own decisions.

Everyone smoked when I was growing up, in house, restaurants, church everywhere. I simply excused myself often as I didn't like the smoke.

Spending more time outdoors for kids is a win-win.

[Anonymous]

I don’t need to read the study. I saw it with my own eyes. Very disturbing and now you literally couldn’t pay me enough to touch the stuff. The information has been out there for a long time now, for anyone who is listening. It’s absolutely shocking to me that people in this country are dumb enough to vote to legalize it.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There has been a nationwide explosion of teen mental health problems over the last 20 years. [b]That is due to SSRI/NSRI/anxiety medications combined with poor social experimenting and parenting. [/b]

I believe social media and phones are primarily behind the overwhelming majority of new teen mental health disease cases. [b]It certainly is a huge factor yes. [/b]

Do we really want to add Marijuana use to the existing crisis? Marijuana should never have been legalized.[b] Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions. [/b]

And before anyone states the obvious (21 is the legal minimum age to smoke Marijuana), the same is true for alcohol yet teens get that often too. [b]There is no way to prevent kids, or adults for that matter, from breaking laws.[/b] [/quote][/quote]

[quote][b] Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions. [/b][/quote]

But if it’s legal for adults to smoke, those who live with them and are exposed to their secondhand smoke (especially kids) aren’t getting to make their own decisions. [/quote]

Everyone smoked when I was growing up, in house, restaurants, church everywhere. I simply excused myself often as I didn't like the smoke.

Spending more time outdoors for kids is a win-win. [/quote]

Sure, I’m old enough that I remember those days as well. TOBACCO smoke was everywhere. I’m glad that you apparently didn’t suffer from your exposure, but not everyone was so fortunate. Here’s an article that talks about the effects that even brief exposure can have (including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome):
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand-smoke/health.html

Although tobacco was bad enough, it didn’t affect brains the same way marijuana does. It’s great that you could simply excuse yourself and head outdoors, but. . . kids generally have less freedom today than they used to. Moreover, I’m pretty sure that as independent as you were, you weren’t able to just excuse yourself and head outside when you were an infant or toddler. Unfortunately, the younger someone is, the more vulnerable their neurological system is, and the less ability they have to get away from their caregivers. Not to mention that there is some concern about thirdhand smoke - smoke that lingers on surfaces like clothes and walls even when no one is smoking.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/secondhand-marijuana-smoke-and-kids-2018060514012

https://health.mountsinai.org/blog/mount-sinai-researchers-report-significant-secondhand-marijuana-smoke-exposure-in-new-york-city-apartments/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather my teen smoke cigarettes than pot.

Same. And one reason is I smoked pot at 14 and ended up in the hospital. Thought I was dying.

I'm convinced some people's brain chemistry just isn't wired to have THC be fun. I'm not a drug puritan ... I don't want my teen doing any drugs, but in my day I did them all--but nothing, not even acid messed me up as badly as pot.

Your anxiety kicked in. That’s pretty common and a sign that weed isn’t for you. For everyone who says pot is stronger now, that’s just not true. It’s regulated so that you can get a small amount of thc , just enough to relax or more but at least you know what you’re getting.

People with mental illness tend to use marijuana to help relieve their symptoms of anxiety and possibly some psychosis they are already experiencing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There has been a nationwide explosion of teen mental health problems over the last 20 years. That is due to SSRI/NSRI/anxiety medications combined with poor social experimenting and parenting.

I believe social media and phones are primarily behind the overwhelming majority of new teen mental health disease cases. It certainly is a huge factor yes.

Do we really want to add Marijuana use to the existing crisis? Marijuana should never have been legalized. Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions.

And before anyone states the obvious (21 is the legal minimum age to smoke Marijuana), the same is true for alcohol yet teens get that often too. There is no way to prevent kids, or adults for that matter, from breaking laws.

Nothing like that should be "illegal" for adults. Let people make their own decisions.

But if it’s legal for adults to smoke, those who live with them and are exposed to their secondhand smoke (especially kids) aren’t getting to make their own decisions.

Everyone smoked when I was growing up, in house, restaurants, church everywhere. I simply excused myself often as I didn't like the smoke.

Spending more time outdoors for kids is a win-win.

But it’s quid pro quo when you rocking it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather my teen smoke cigarettes than pot.

Same. And one reason is I smoked pot at 14 and ended up in the hospital. Thought I was dying.

I'm convinced some people's brain chemistry just isn't wired to have THC be fun. I'm not a drug puritan ... I don't want my teen doing any drugs, but in my day I did them all--but nothing, not even acid messed me up as badly as pot.

Your anxiety kicked in. That’s pretty common and a sign that weed isn’t for you. For everyone who says pot is stronger now, that’s just not true. It’s regulated so that you can get a small amount of thc , just enough to relax or more but at least you know what you’re getting.

People with mental illness tend to use marijuana to help relieve their symptoms of anxiety and possibly some psychosis they are already experiencing.

False

[Anonymous]

Veterans with PTSD need weed. You liberals are gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This only happens to people who have psychotic features already present.

I recently watched an interview of a pedo who claims he did not have pedo tendencies until he stumbled across CP on a mainstream pron site. In some of them anybody can upload. I have to wonder if a large portion of the population have various undesirable proclivities that would never be turned on without a trigger

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

It’s permanent? I thought the psychosis was temporary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a no-brainer to anyone paying attention. This is another reason why legalization is so detrimental to our communities’ safety and wellbeing.

Legalization makes it easier to keep out of the hands of teenagers. Yes, there will always be "shoulder tapping," fake IDs and and other ways for underage users to get it, but it's still a far cry from having it freely available from street dealers.

That's only true if the law is enforced vigorously, but it is not. All the people whining about "non-violent" crimes stopped enforcement of drug law

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand how the pro-marijuana sleeps at night hearing story after story like this.

It's seriously ruining so much.

I’ll tell you why.

Because illegal marijuana destroyed millions upon millions of lives in the war on drugs - I was a prosecutor, I saw it firsthand. All those funding streams voted in by prudish politicians to feed the prudish public meant decades of law enforcement attention busting pot smokers while claiming not enough resources to root out violent crime like all the unsolved murders and rapes etc.

Because legal marijuana is saving hundreds of thousands of lives, particularly in the addiction community where folks have been able to get off opioid drugs and manage their pain with marijuana instead which won’t kill them, including tens of thousands of veterans, men and women we sent to hell and do very little for when they return. Millions of people with chronic physical and mental health conditions whose pain responds well to management by marijuana therapy which has far fewer side effects than benzodiazepines, SSRIs/SNRIs, tricyclics, etc.

And beyond that I’m grateful that instead of being over in the dry January thread talking about my struggle to put down the booze for 31 days, booze that has zero health benefits but is rather linked to several cancers, heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, brain atrophy etc. and is at the root of so very many social ills, I could pop down to my local dispensary tonight and buy some high quality, tightly regulated marijuana to unwind a little from my week.

I’m truly sorry for people who have family members who developed psychosis linked to drug use. Teens aren’t supposed to be using drugs in any case, where is your outrage at the negligent parents as arises in so many other threads?

But I digress.

Yes a very small fraction of people at any age could have a serious negative reaction to using drugs that alter brain function. Same with alcohol, opiods, psychedelics. That is no reason to remove all those substances from availability to the vast majority of people who can use them responsibly and will not have serious adverse reaction. Illegal marijuana ruins exponentially more lives than legal marijuana. Psychosis is treatable and people can and usually do recover from it. Anyone with serious concern about the potential for serious negative consequences of using marijuana can just say no.

Pregnancy and postpartum triggers psychosis in some people who have wombs and use them. Should we ban the use of wombs?

1. You're conflating medical marijuana with recreational
2. I have never heard of an alcohol binge triggering psychotic disorder
3. There is a higher purpose for using a uterus, not really comparable to recreational pot use

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

It’s permanent? I thought the psychosis was temporary?

It's like having a single seizure. Will it happen again? How many months/years have to pass before you can confidently say it was a one-off?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather my teen smoke cigarettes than pot.

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