High-Potency Cannabis Linked to Increased
Psychosis Risk in Young Adults: Study
Epoch Times,
by
Cara Michelle Miller
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
5/26/2024 10:58:28 AM
During breaks from his deployments in the Afghanistan war, Craig turned to smoking cannabis to alleviate stress, just as he had done as a teenager. However, one evening, things took a turn when he barricaded himself and his two young daughters in the master bedroom.
“He thought the house was surrounded by terrorists,” Jennifer Thomas, the girls’ mother, recounted (snip)
Military police took Craig to a psychiatric hospital, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 26.
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Craig’s story is one among an increasing number of cases, primarily involving men, where cannabis use has contributed to a schizophrenia diagnosis occurring in one’s 20s.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 5/26/2024 11:03:49 AM (No. 1725210)
Not surprising. Young brains are changing massively year by year, and putting some garbage like this into this delicate system is likely to mess it up.
This "legalization" idea is a hideous, horrible mistake. It will enrich some, and cripple many.
A very bad idea.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 5/26/2024 11:08:41 AM (No. 1725215)
I wonder if there is a correlation between heavy cannabis use and the number of mass shootings in our Country. Just wondering . . .
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Onset of schizophrenia in men in their early 20s is more common than people think. We were watching this trend over 20 years ago when marijuana was not as potent. There was no obvious connection to marijuana use.
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Yes, but we must totally ban menthol cigarettes.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Wetenschapper 5/26/2024 12:33:16 PM (No. 1725278)
Poster #3 is quite correct. Schizophrenia most commonly doesn't begin to show up until the late teens or early twenties, cannabis or no cannabis. While I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the drug indeed causes psychosis, the study, at least as presented, suffers from a "chicken or egg" weakness: does the cannabis cause an increase in schizophrenia, or is there something about the schizophrenic or pre-schizophrenic brain that leads the sufferer to attempt self-medication with illicit drugs?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 5/26/2024 12:42:32 PM (No. 1725286)
Re #5, excellent point. In any "correlation analysis" the key is identifying the correct direction of the causality "arrow".
Yes, if A is accurately correlated with B, then the next question is which way the causality arrow points. Does A cause B or does B cause A? Sometimes it is obvious, many times it is not obvious.
And your point is excellent.....do schizos seek out drugs because their brain is messed up? Or does taking drugs mess up your brain?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/26/2024 1:03:14 PM (No. 1725301)
It isn't cannabis as much as socially created incel-ism that has warped our young people.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/26/2024 1:06:45 PM (No. 1725304)
One of my in-laws was a heavy marijuana user in her teens. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia in her 20s. She's a one-woman wrecking ball. Her four children (by four different men) are all damaged and range from marginally functioning to passably functioning members of society. It is a tragedy.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 5/26/2024 2:22:16 PM (No. 1725321)
It’s my understanding from earlier articles that the potency of THC has gone up by 800% since the 80s. This would be a result of marijuana growers selective breeding to increase the potency, and I guess increase sales.
I spoke recently with a friend who is about my age or late 50s who was in recently the Netherlands and he and his wife decided to smoke a joint. He said they both got so paranoid that they had to go back to their room till it wore off. He never had that problem when he was younger.
I have no doubt that this article is absolutely correct. I too, have a close family member that got very heavily involved in weed in his teenage years. He’s a complete wreck today.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
slipstik 5/26/2024 2:48:56 PM (No. 1725326)
I know of two retired military noncoms who temporarily "LOST IT" while trying delta 8 gummies. These guys are full fledged middle aged adults. Nothing young about them, battle hardened dudes. Both of these guys IMMEDIATELY put that stuff down and haven't touched any cannabis products since. They saw where they were headed and didn't want to go there.
One needn't be young with the new variations of weed. This stuff is seriously dangerous to anyone who uses it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hershey 5/26/2024 3:25:27 PM (No. 1725342)
They call it 'whackey weed' for a reason.....
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
joew9 5/26/2024 4:41:15 PM (No. 1725369)
The high potency stuff smells like skunk. The pot of the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's didn't smell like that. I was of the opinion that it should be legal until they changed it to the skunk smelling stuff. I'm done. Ban it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Harlowe 5/26/2024 4:58:31 PM (No. 1725374)
High-potency or not, cannabis is considered a gateway to harder drugs. Large doses can cause confusion, hallucinations, paranoia and difficulty for the body to fight illnesses. Marijuana, when smoked, contains more than 2,000 chemicals that can stay in a body for up to a month; marijuana can harm the heart, lungs, brain, sex organs and can lead to asthma, memory loss, cause panic attacks, lung damage, brain damage, slowed reaction time, change in sex drive, a central nervous system (CNS) depressant effect, death due to impaired driving, false beliefs, unfounded fear or distrust, decreased immunity to illnesses, lack of energy and motivation, loss of interest in activities/work/school, difficulty concentrating/learning, contains more cancer-causing agents than cigarettes and can be come addictive.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/26/2024 5:50:22 PM (No. 1725398)
Lets outlaw Cigarettes and then everyone can start smoking Mary Jane.
I have a Marijuana Growing facility about a half mile from my home .
At times it smells like skunks are mating there. What a stink.
It was snuck in there , no one knew such a facility was coming until the building started, we fought it and lost.
I urge anyone who has one being built close to them to fight it hard. It destroys your home value and it STINKS.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 5/26/2024 9:07:54 PM (No. 1725469)
Dangers of marajuana for adolescents, teens, young adults has already been known for quite a few years, though not publicized nearly widely enough!! This book is excellent: http://www.marijuanadebunked.com/
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/27/2024 1:48:01 AM (No. 1725550)
Sounds to me like #1, 8, 9, 10, 13, and 15 in particular know what they are talking about.
Evil stuff.
So OF COURSE the 'RATS and the HairSniffer's evil handlers are reducing the 'classification' of this poison.
It's part of their War Against America.
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We have heward of this before. An effect of cannabis on the adolescent brain - potential for schizophrenia in 20s.