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Early Onset Psychosis Linked To Mary Jane Use

Question this raises, for the regular pot smokers.

Let's say it is fully legalized, and then there are all kinds of studies done in the light of full disclosure. And let's say that study after study proves without doubt that weed is bad for you (pick a way, but bad for you nonetheless). Will that change your attitude toward it?

Depends on how it is bad for you (smoking, vaping, or eating?) And depends on how bad it is for you. (Is it bad for you like soda pop and hamburgers? Or is it bad for you like meth, arsinic, rat poison?)
 
It would seem if it did increase the incidences of psychosis the rates of it would have gone up with the usage of pot increasing the past two decades or so. From everything I've read it hasn't.
 
I know that for me personally pot is harmful. If it wasn't I would use it regularly, but it is massively demotivating for me, a side effect I think that gets minimized more than it should. Besides that it causes anxiety for me, paranoia, etc. Then there's the stupidification factor, which coupled with the anxiety and paranoia can absolutely disrupt my normal behavior in favor of avoiding contact with other people.

It's not like that for everyone. Not sure why the effects are so different from one person to the next but I know many people who claim none of the side effects I experience. Many claim the opposite, that it calms them down and makes their thinking more clear and gives them a desire to go out and have a good time. If I used pot going out in public would be the very last thing I would want to do. It'd be munchies and goofy comedy shows time for me.
 
I understand that about hypotheticals. But if you think about it we operate our daily lives in hypothetical space. We don't put it in the same terms all the time, but we prepare to do things based on what we think might happen in a given circumstance. But I personally enjoy the thought exercise of putting myself in situations that otherwise I may never be in to see if I can challenge my own way of thinking or make myself see things from a different viewpoint. Different opinions for different folks I guess. But thanks for responding.


I have no issues with weed personally, and I am not a user at all. When I had medical issues that would have made it a viable option for me it was on the very leading edge of the medical marijuana debate, but my doctor mentioning it got me thinking. I have had a couple of pain specialists since then who thought I could benefit as I deal with chronic pain and will for the rest of my life. I just have heard a lot on this forum in these debates as people get very vehement that it causes no harm. It sometimes seems like it is argued a little too hard, almost as if folks are trying to convince themselves it is ok to do it. So I was curious, if something came to light that completely blew that view out of the water, what would some of our ardent users do.

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I'm sure it would totally reduce the total of regular smokers, which is even more reason to disregard attempting to control this substance.

It would still not change the way I feel about using it because I find it fun, and as a catalyst to my creative and professional life
 
this is america damn it if i can stuff my face with twinkies and pound down a bottle of jack daniels wit no 1 even blinkin and eye, not sure if srs bout dat mary jane bein illegal. i mean srsly bros. at least mj is 100% natural, not artificial **** thats comletely legal. this **** is unamerican bros. not sure why these freedom haters dont move elsewhere tbh.
 
So is hemlock. 100% natural does not automatically make it safe.

Ya but i would still rather have it be natural than man made. Like MJ vs percocet, lortab, oxy.
 
Ya but i would still rather have it be natural than man made. Like MJ vs percocet, lortab, oxy.

exactly bro. countless peoples have died from overdosin on synthetic drugs for them to be considered more dangerous than MJ--yet mj is outlawed with extreme punishments just for having it on you while stuff like narcotic painkillers (for 1 example) are exxtreeeemley easy to get prescribed-- 'got a lil backpain doc' etc.
 
Question this raises, for the regular pot smokers.

Let's say it is fully legalized, and then there are all kinds of studies done in the light of full disclosure. And let's say that study after study proves without doubt that weed is bad for you (pick a way, but bad for you nonetheless). Will that change your attitude toward it?

I don't use tobacco nor marijuana, I do have a drink every few months. I would say that the effects would have to considerably worse than alcohol or tobacco to make criminalization worthwhile.
 
I don't really care how I'm being poisoned. Not being poisoned is the important part.

Just sayin that lots o people take drugs such as paxil, prozac, percocet, oxycontin for things like pain, anxiety, depression.

If MJ did a decent job of relieving those issues then i think it is a better alternative
 
The "Weed is natural, it's a plant" argument never made much sense to me, tbh. Should we legalize opium too? Cocaine?
 
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