Marijuana causes teen psychosis- more evidence

[Anonymous]

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

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.

Those are anecdotes.

The linked article builds on the body of evidence demonstrating marijuana is
harmful to the developing teen brain.

I know they are anecdotes but if you ask anyone about weed quite a few would have stories about the teens who smoked every day. Not too many stories about ending up in the hospital.

And most smokers don’t have lung cancer! Your comment reveals a profound lack of understanding of how life altering psychosis can be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Obama seems fine and he smoked plenty

He does not seem fine at all.

You are an idiot "he does not seem fine" just by writing that we know you are a MAGA brain dead cult member

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone gift the article?

Here you go: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/marijuana-depression-psychosis-869490d1?st=fejv23qcagpbpji&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

[Anonymous]

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

This is why it's not legal for teenagers. I know people from 30 years ago who ruined their future by smoking too much weed even then.

There's little to no serious enforcement behind it being illegal for teens though.

Even alcohol, which is hardly perfect, has way more infrastructure and consequence behind selling to minors. But marijuana is a free-for-all and it's flooding our schools and communities.

The kids are paying a serious price.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

This is why it's not legal for teenagers. I know people from 30 years ago who ruined their future by smoking too much weed even then.

There's little to no serious enforcement behind it being illegal for teens though.

Even alcohol, which is hardly perfect, has way more infrastructure and consequence behind selling to minors. But marijuana is a free-for-all and it's flooding our schools and communities.

The kids are paying a serious price.

This is true. All the kids know which vape stores sell to kids. Everyone in the HS who is interested know which kid sells weed and THC gummies / vapes.

Plus, marijuana vapes are much easier to conceal than bulky, expensive, harder-to-get alcohol.

[Anonymous]

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

Nope. My son had none of those features. I found him sitting behind the front door with a baseball bat be night. He was completely paranoid that someone was trying to break in. He’d be up all night staring at the cameras he insisted we have installed. It took a few months of an antipsychotic medication to make this behavior go away.

+1 no family history, no prior symptoms…it was completely unexpected and it was soo scary. If you had told me this 5 years ago I would have probably rolled my eyes or jumped to minimize it like a lot of people are here, but I’ve seen it firsthand

[Anonymous]

You will never convince people who think weed is no big deal and psychosis is not induced by it. These posters probably smoke weed themselves and don’t find anything wrong with their kids smoking it either. I know a friend who enjoys edibles and smokes weed, all he says to his kids who smoke weed is ‘don’t have too much fun’! In American culture ‘fun’ means drugs/weed/alcohol and sex. Also his kids attend top colleges.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Marijuana is more potent today. You shouldn’t compare it to when you were young.

Maybe not, but it's also an absolute red herring. Stronger weed = lower doses less often, that's all.

[Anonymous]

I heard an expert talking about this on WTOP on my way home from work this afternoon. She was talking about how incredibly potent the THC is in various products like edibles and some wax product that you smoke in a bong-like contraption. I think that generally speaking, concerns about cannabis are overblown, but what I heard did sound pretty scary.

[Anonymous]

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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.

No, it doesn’t. The legal supply just becomes an additional source of weed for illegal dealers (especially students). Illegal/black market marijuana dealing is not dying or disappearing as a result of legalization. I hate to break it to you.

Especially since illegal dealers don’t have to bear the costs of overhead and taxes that legal dealers do, so they can always offer themselves up as the cheaper alternative to the legal stuff, which is very appealing to kids who have limited funds.

[Anonymous]

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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.

you have outdone yourself!

[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.

you know what else i've heard? banning abortion makes it easier to actually get abortion!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

No, it doesn’t. The legal supply just becomes an additional source of weed for illegal dealers (especially students). Illegal/black market marijuana dealing is not dying or disappearing as a result of legalization. I hate to break it to you.

Especially since illegal dealers don’t have to bear the costs of overhead and taxes that legal dealers do, so they can always offer themselves up as the cheaper alternative to the legal stuff, which is very appealing to kids who have limited funds.

Yeah when I was in school people did it occasionally and it was moderately difficult to get. Now my kids say every day all day long kids are vaping all over school. I walk down the street and smell it everywhere. I wasn’t strongly opposed to pot use when it was fairly infrequent so didn’t feel strongly about legalization but the current situation is insane.