As a mental health professional I disagree. Quite a bit of research and plenty

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May 27, 2023
12:17:35pm

ImRonBurgundy? 3rd String

As a mental health professional I disagree. Quite a bit of research and plenty

of my own experience that Marijuana brings on psychosis for some people.

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ImRonBurgundy?

Previous username: CounselingCoug
Bio page: ImRonBurgundy?
Joined: Apr 11, 2012
Last login: May 6, 2024
Total posts: 704 (7 FO)

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Do whatever you can to keep kids off weed. The risks for psychiatric disorders is too great.

Soupie Grandma Sycamore

5/27/23 10:31am

Wait until you are 26 to start.

crimedog

5/27/23 10:43am

In all seriousness this is a huge problem

crimedog

5/27/23 10:48am

Is the weed causing schizophrenia or is schizophrenia causing abuse of weed

Tare

5/27/23 10:48am

Weed is causing it.

crimedog

5/27/23 10:49am

Is it the THC or do they know what causes the problem?

John Doe

5/27/23 11:22am

Yes. THC concentrates are unregulated unlike alcohol & nicotine. It’s much much stronger now.

Soupie

5/27/23 11:30am

The scientists in the linked article says no causation has been found

marinact

5/27/23 11:29am

As a mental health professional I disagree. Quite a bit of research and plenty

5/27/23 12:17pm

Link to the studies so we can see what it says.

marinact

5/27/23 12:27pm

Causation is hard to establish but here is a summary with plenty of links

5/27/23 12:37pm

You can’t definitively prove the link because the study is immoral.

Boring

5/27/23 1:13pm

So glad the science is settled…….

niqmadu

5/27/23 7:24pm

It’s crazy how much anecdotal evidence there is, but proving it is almost imposs

King of Y

5/27/23 5:18pm

Or maybe schizophrenia exists in all/many of us and weed just exasperates it?

EEcougar

5/27/23 10:55am

There’s evidence that a family history increases the effects & incidence but

Soupie

5/27/23 11:00am

My 47 year old brother has been on a “weed regimen” for many years now. I would

Flippy

5/27/23 11:14am

The thing is his mental problems didn't start at the same time his physically

marinact

5/27/23 11:41am

All i know is the side of CA highways are littered with people living in tents

calblue

5/27/23 12:41pm

FWIW (and this isn't directed at you) Marijuana basically saved my dads life.

boctabulous

5/27/23 3:16pm

Totally fine with it being treated as a Rx medication to be prescribed in controlled doses for certain conditions.

Soupie

5/27/23 3:41pm

That's not the use we're talking about.

kccougar

5/28/23 1:26pm

Poor Hambone, that’s terrible.

Cru Jones

5/30/23 10:44pm

This is so dumb

TepperCoug

5/27/23 1:30pm

It used to be obvious that if you smoke weed you are a loser going nowhere.

UNLVcougar

5/27/23 7:04pm

It’s still obvious to some of us.

King of Y

5/27/23 7:07pm

As I’ve said before, Marijuana is to the United States as Vodka was to USSR.

King of Y

5/27/23 7:08pm

Young adults smoke it to treat their "anxiety" with no understanding that it actually exacerbates anxiety.

kccougar

5/28/23 7:49am

We do that with a lot of things ... porn, social media, food, bad friends, etc.

runnincoug

5/28/23 8:59am

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