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Anonymous wrote:Pot is different nowadays. Kids are having mental issues, paranoia that is permanent from today’s weed. It even smells way worse than it did in the 80-90s. It’s more potent.

Read the studies. For this reason (and we know 5 kids with no mental health history have serious mental health issues 18-22–I’m strongly advocating against it and showing my kids the data).

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna84984

“Over the last decade of diagnosing countless young patients with new psychotic disorders, one striking result has stuck out for New York City psychiatrist Dr. Ryan Sultan.

“Of all the people I’ve diagnosed with a psychotic disorder,” he said, “I can’t think of a single one who wasn’t also positive for cannabis.”

And the evidence is growing of marijuana’s association with psychiatric disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, especially in young men.

My son developed psychosis after smoking weed (and not ever for that long). He will be on antipsychotic medication for the rest of his life. It’s not like the weed from the 60s.

Anonymous wrote:If his school work isn't suffering, nothing. It is natural to experiment with soft drugs. As long as it is an occasional thing.

Anonymous wrote:The permissive parents who are broadcasting and displaying their permissiveness in this thread but then in the same breath insisting they aren’t permissive, would be hilarious if their laissez-faire parenting styles didn’t ruin lives.