MUST READ article in 'The Tablet' on marijuana
Are pot reporters high?
As I’ve been saying — e.g. here and here — you’re being lied to about today’s pot.
Excerpts from The Tablet article:
«How Weed Became the New OxyContin
AUGUST 30, 2022
Dr. Libby Stuyt, a recently retired addiction psychiatrist in Pueblo, Colorado, [says about five years ago,] “I started seeing people with the worst psychosis symptoms that I have ever seen” …
These cases were even more acute than what she’d seen from psychotic patients on meth. Some of the delusions were accompanied by “severe violence.” But these patients were coming up positive only for cannabis.»
[Totally harmless drug. Way safer than alcohol.]
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«If you’ve ever smoked a bowl and become irrationally anxious that everyone is staring at you and knows you’re high, what you experienced was a mild symptom of cannabis-induced psychosis. According to one study, about 40% of people react this way. If you experience that paranoia and keep smoking on a regular basis nonetheless—especially with today’s high-potency THC products, and especially if you’re young—there’s a good chance you’ll eventually suffer a full psychotic break; 35% of young people who experience psychotic symptoms, according to another study, eventually have such an episode. If you keep using after that, you run a decent risk of ending up permanently schizophrenic or bipolar. Cannabis has by far the highest conversion rate to schizophrenia of any substance—higher than meth, higher than opioids, higher than LSD. Two Danish studies, as well as a massive study from Finland, put your chances at close to 50%.»
[Worse, even if you don’t suffer a psychotic break, you’ll become a sunken-chested pansy with no ambition, no work ethic, barely a pulse -- except to attack anyone who opposes pot. Americans are pussified enough without voluntarily turning themselves into retards.]
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«Kevin had a hardcore drug addiction, but in his imagination, he was just taking medicine—and a $13 billion industry was telling him he was right.
“The line about it being medicine—he bought that,” Bright said about his son. “I told people, what medicine do you get from a doctor that’s 100% always approved, that you can get within 10 to 15 minutes online, you can take as much as you want per year, you never have to come back to renew it?”»
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Looks just like my doctor’s office!
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«[O]n WeedMaps.com, you can buy your cannabis in the form of a joint, flower, vape, concentrate (budder, crumble, or crystalline), cookie, brownie, corn nut, caramel corn, jalapeño cheese cracker, rice crispie bar, macaron, pretzel bite, cereal, tincture, syrup, seltzer, iced tea, herbal tea, tonic, apple juice, punch, mocktail, root beer, cream soda, lemonade, agua fresca, powder, gummy, mint, chocolate, gum, balm, salve, bath bomb, salt, oil, shower gel, or soap, and have it delivered to your doorstep.
These products are all sold as “medicine,” even though none of them is FDA-approved. … And although it’s illegal for anyone without a medical degree to offer medical advice, dispensary “budtenders” do it all the time. Their advice is completely evidence-free, because no evidence exists that the specific products they sell have any medicinal value.»
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«Dr. Robin Murray, a psychiatric researcher at King’s College London: “[W]e have all this research showing that greater than 10% puts you at risk for psychosis, addiction, suicide, cannabis hyperemesis syndrome [constant, severe vomiting]—all these things that high-potency THC is doing.”…
“High-potency” describes almost all of the cannabis products sold in the United States today, the vast majority of which are over 15% THC.»
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«[A] a former CEO of Purdue Pharma, the company that made OxyContin, co-founded a medical marijuana company called Emblem after helping to create the modern opioid epidemic.»
[What could go wrong?]
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«Aubree’s older son started using legal cannabis products in the eighth grade. By his freshman year in high school, he was addicted. He became psychotic: “Self-harming, violent behaviors, couldn’t even regulate any moods—crying obsessively, inconsolable, paranoid over things, thinking people were after us,” his mother recounted. He tried to kill his little brother several times. …
When Aubree tried to get her son to stop he would say, “It’s medicine, Mom. You’re the only one not using it, Mom. Maybe you need to start using it, Mom. You’ll feel better. What you’re saying is a lie, Mom. It’s all propaganda, Mom.”»
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IT’S ‘REEFER MADNESS,’ MOM!
Yeah, except now it’s true.
It is clear that the pot nowadays is not the same as what the hippies were using. I am curious if these recent mass shootings (i.e Uvalde, etc.) are not the result of using pot? We will never know because the problem is the gun and not the person pulling the trigger.
Thanks for highlighting this important topic. I felt my state (Washington) was utterly mad for legalizing marijuana recently. I knew a kid in college who smoked pot like a chimney and he lost all motivation, and basically became a vegetable. So I've seen first hand what it can do and have taught my kids diligently to avoid it at all cost, which they have. Scary to think Obama smoked pot like a chimney in college, this in my mind should have disqualified him from the office, but the country has been lied to over and over that's it's harmless, and everyone does it. And the media is complicit (probably at the direction of their CCP masters), notice NYT Quietly Removed Reference To Uvalde Shooter Complaining Grandma Wouldn’t Allow Him To Smoke Weed. And of course the so called fact checkers are going after anyone who dares mention this connection including Laura Ingraham. Those fact checkers are probably writing these things while sitting in their momma's basement smoking weed... in their pajamas...