摘录下读者评价 @Dan Growski The point is that the legalization campaign has been heedless. There are real health dangers that were ignored, in part beca marijuana wasn’t studied like a regular medicine would be with clinical trials, etc.
This is all so, so predictable. Users who want easier access insist that cannabis is safe and harmless and not addictive. And it turns out that having easy, cheap access to cannabis promotes not just regular use but daily use because it is addictive. And chronic use is not safe and it is harmful. And it is easy for children to get it now and all the effects seen in adults are worse in children. This was known in advance, but dismissed. The left picks and chooses what science it wants to respect. The right does the same. But reality eventually bites everyone.
@Will My brother claims to have used cannabis every day since leaving Vietnam in 1967 and he's gone to college and had a career and is in pretty good shape for being 76. But he uses in moderation, recognizing today's product is way different from the sixties and seventies. Young people who start on today's potent stuff barely have a chance to learn what moderation means before damage can begin, not that the young who use such substances have ever been especially moderate. As with any substance, it's not for everyone and not every dose is safe.
Dean USAO I've worked with students for years. One of the most troubling situations I had to handle involved a student who had overused Delta 8 THC gummies. He had a total and sudden psychotic breakdown that led to his arrest. The police took him to an ER, and he was involuntarily hospitalized in a psych ward for over a week (this exposed him to unethical practices by a private clinic). This episode almost derailed his entire education and job prospects, and it took massive effort by family, university, and healthcare providers to get him back on track. What a wake-up call that was to me! I also know young people who have the emesis issue, and it is awful. They are also in denial.
@Dean I am a clinical psychologist who has extensively trained on adult psychiatric wards over two continents and many years. I have seen many young kids (17-25 yo bracket) become suddenly fully psychotic after smoking pot (sometimes once). It kills lives, sometimes of very very bright kids, and I have to tell you good luck getting back to baseline. This is horrible.
@Loquiter No, for some moderation still brings up psychosis and I don’t like big pharma either. PS. big pharma and cannabis pushers: same difference
Mid-AtlanticOct. 4 I’m a physician. I have seen a significant uptick in marijuana-related injuries (falls, etc), car accidents (caused by people who are high, but no way to prove they are by testing-HUGE problem), marijuana-related hyperemesis syndrome. It’s a sensorium-altering drug. Not sure why we think this is safe? And the smell of marijuana coming from cars and in public spaces… it’s all illegal. Hopefully people know they can report it.
RK DenverOct. 4 I was a daily and fully addicted pot smoker for 32 years, and it massively negatively affected my health, relationships, and career. Anyone who says this substance is benign or not addictive has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. I quit cannabis for good a year ago and my life has dramatically improved across every possible measure. I started smoking at 16 in a culture that contextualized it as a cool, chill, social thing to do. Teens need to be thoroughly and repeatedly educated on the very real dangers of cannabis, especially now that it's so much more readily available.
Dan CaliforniaOct. 4 As a former pothead I have been saying for years that it’s harmful and addictive while the messaging has been pushed that it’s harmless and natural. For me personally while it at first helped with my anxiety it eventually turned on me and made it worse. I have never had an issue with legalizing it, just don’t run around and say it’s harmless because it’s not.
@Lauri Same thing happened to me. Went literally insane for months after chronic marijuana use. Ranting, raving, megalomaniacal, dancing in the streets mad (at one point I believed everyone in the world knew who I was and that I was being video-taped from the sky and broadcast live like the Truman Show). As a successful middle-aged professional, it was a humbling experience to say the least. I was also diagnosed with underlying bipolar disorder, but my psychiatrist says its impossible to know if I'm "actually" bipolar or (basically) substance-induced bipolar. Regardless, I'm sober now and also on low-level lithium. I'm also the happiest and most emotionally and mentally stable I've ever been in my life. If you are struggling with anxiety and depression, I recommend sobriety, community and spirituality over weed. Marijuana is a false prophet.
JP Worcester maOct. 4 Physician here. Is it less dangerous than alcohol and hard drugs, absolutely. However, the medicinal potential is low, if smoked it still has all the harms of smoking, and it does cause a lot of ER visits due to intoxication (passing out, anxiety attacks, stroke like symptoms in the elderly, etc) and due to recurrent vomiting in chronic users. Judging from the effect I have seen on many, it can definitely be addictive for some. It should not be illegal, but it should not be regarded as mostly harmless.
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@Dan Growski The point is that the legalization campaign has been heedless. There are real health dangers that were ignored, in part beca marijuana wasn’t studied like a regular medicine would be with clinical trials, etc.
This is all so, so predictable.
Users who want easier access insist that cannabis is safe and harmless and not addictive.
And it turns out that having easy, cheap access to cannabis promotes not just regular use but daily use because it is addictive. And chronic use is not safe and it is harmful. And it is easy for children to get it now and all the effects seen in adults are worse in children.
This was known in advance, but dismissed. The left picks and chooses what science it wants to respect. The right does the same. But reality eventually bites everyone.
@Will My brother claims to have used cannabis every day since leaving Vietnam in 1967 and he's gone to college and had a career and is in pretty good shape for being 76. But he uses in moderation, recognizing today's product is way different from the sixties and seventies. Young people who start on today's potent stuff barely have a chance to learn what moderation means before damage can begin, not that the young who use such substances have ever been especially moderate. As with any substance, it's not for everyone and not every dose is safe.
Dean USAO I've worked with students for years. One of the most troubling situations I had to handle involved a student who had overused Delta 8 THC gummies. He had a total and sudden psychotic breakdown that led to his arrest. The police took him to an ER, and he was involuntarily hospitalized in a psych ward for over a week (this exposed him to unethical practices by a private clinic). This episode almost derailed his entire education and job prospects, and it took massive effort by family, university, and healthcare providers to get him back on track. What a wake-up call that was to me!
I also know young people who have the emesis issue, and it is awful. They are also in denial.
@Dean I am a clinical psychologist who has extensively trained on adult psychiatric wards over two continents and many years. I have seen many young kids (17-25 yo bracket) become suddenly fully psychotic after smoking pot (sometimes once). It kills lives, sometimes of very very bright kids, and I have to tell you good luck getting back to baseline. This is horrible.
@Loquiter No, for some moderation still brings up psychosis and I don’t like big pharma either.
PS. big pharma and cannabis pushers: same difference
Mid-AtlanticOct. 4 I’m a physician. I have seen a significant uptick in marijuana-related injuries (falls, etc), car accidents (caused by people who are high, but no way to prove they are by testing-HUGE problem), marijuana-related hyperemesis syndrome.
It’s a sensorium-altering drug. Not sure why we think this is safe?
And the smell of marijuana coming from cars and in public spaces… it’s all illegal. Hopefully people know they can report it.
RK DenverOct. 4 I was a daily and fully addicted pot smoker for 32 years, and it massively negatively affected my health, relationships, and career. Anyone who says this substance is benign or not addictive has absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
I quit cannabis for good a year ago and my life has dramatically improved across every possible measure. I started smoking at 16 in a culture that contextualized it as a cool, chill, social thing to do. Teens need to be thoroughly and repeatedly educated on the very real dangers of cannabis, especially now that it's so much more readily available.
Dan CaliforniaOct. 4 As a former pothead I have been saying for years that it’s harmful and addictive while the messaging has been pushed that it’s harmless and natural. For me personally while it at first helped with my anxiety it eventually turned on me and made it worse. I have never had an issue with legalizing it, just don’t run around and say it’s harmless because it’s not.
@Lauri Same thing happened to me. Went literally insane for months after chronic marijuana use. Ranting, raving, megalomaniacal, dancing in the streets mad (at one point I believed everyone in the world knew who I was and that I was being video-taped from the sky and broadcast live like the Truman Show).
As a successful middle-aged professional, it was a humbling experience to say the least. I was also diagnosed with underlying bipolar disorder, but my psychiatrist says its impossible to know if I'm "actually" bipolar or (basically) substance-induced bipolar.
Regardless, I'm sober now and also on low-level lithium. I'm also the happiest and most emotionally and mentally stable I've ever been in my life.
If you are struggling with anxiety and depression, I recommend sobriety, community and spirituality over weed. Marijuana is a false prophet.
JP Worcester maOct. 4 Physician here. Is it less dangerous than alcohol and hard drugs, absolutely. However, the medicinal potential is low, if smoked it still has all the harms of smoking, and it does cause a lot of ER visits due to intoxication (passing out, anxiety attacks, stroke like symptoms in the elderly, etc) and due to recurrent vomiting in chronic users. Judging from the effect I have seen on many, it can definitely be addictive for some. It should not be illegal, but it should not be regarded as mostly harmless.