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Weed makes you crazy and gives you heart disease. Why?s it legal?
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methyl viologen
Nov 10, 2023, 2:27:00 PM11/10/23
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The evidence for keeping weed illegal keeps mounting — even as the laws
get looser.
A new, peer-reviewed study (on a significant data set of nearly 60,000
Canadians) has shown that adults who misuse pot have a 60% higher risk of
experiencing their first heart attack, stroke, or other major
cardiovascular event.
In other words: Weed’s not a harmless vice.
It’s a killer, like cigarettes.
And unlike cigarettes, it literally drives people insane.
A massive Danish study based on nearly 7 million health records drew a
strong correlation between heavy cannabis use and increased risk of
schizophrenia in young men.
That’s to say nothing of the fact that pot, no matter what its advocates
claim, likely serves as a gateway drug: Evidence suggests a link between
cannabis use in kids and later opioid use, and the drug can play a role in
rewiring the reward circuitry in young brains.
Or the soaring levels of THC — the psychoactive chemical in weed — seen
since the ’90s.
As use becomes more widespread, in other words, the drug is getting more
and more powerful.
Given the all-consuming safetyism that defines modern progressive
politics, the crusade to legalize weed (and normalize it!) is bizarre in
light of the increasing evidence it’s a terrible idea on health grounds.
With macabre, albeit unintentional humor, New York City’s own topsy-turvy
Health Department warns “Avoid smoking cannabis rolled or mixed with
tobacco” because “there is no safe amount of tobacco use.”
And in big cities like New York, letting people get high on the streets
supercharges the social decay caused by rollbacks of policing and
sentencing for more serious crimes.
As does the proliferation of plainly illegal weed shops here.
1169
What do you think? Post a comment.
Nearly a third of adults under 35 regularly smoke weed; nearly 70% of
Americans back legalization, despite all this.
They need to wake up and smell the blunt smoke before the next big drug
crisis arrives.
Turdzy McButterpants
29 September, 2023
The lung is a one of the most delicate organs in the body, and is
therefore highly vulnerable to damage. Your lungs were not designed to
inhale cigarette or weed smoke any more than your liver was designed to
process alcohol.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/weed-makes-you-crazy-and-gives-you-heart-
disease-whys-it-legal/
get looser.
A new, peer-reviewed study (on a significant data set of nearly 60,000
Canadians) has shown that adults who misuse pot have a 60% higher risk of
experiencing their first heart attack, stroke, or other major
cardiovascular event.
In other words: Weed’s not a harmless vice.
It’s a killer, like cigarettes.
And unlike cigarettes, it literally drives people insane.
A massive Danish study based on nearly 7 million health records drew a
strong correlation between heavy cannabis use and increased risk of
schizophrenia in young men.
That’s to say nothing of the fact that pot, no matter what its advocates
claim, likely serves as a gateway drug: Evidence suggests a link between
cannabis use in kids and later opioid use, and the drug can play a role in
rewiring the reward circuitry in young brains.
Or the soaring levels of THC — the psychoactive chemical in weed — seen
since the ’90s.
As use becomes more widespread, in other words, the drug is getting more
and more powerful.
Given the all-consuming safetyism that defines modern progressive
politics, the crusade to legalize weed (and normalize it!) is bizarre in
light of the increasing evidence it’s a terrible idea on health grounds.
With macabre, albeit unintentional humor, New York City’s own topsy-turvy
Health Department warns “Avoid smoking cannabis rolled or mixed with
tobacco” because “there is no safe amount of tobacco use.”
And in big cities like New York, letting people get high on the streets
supercharges the social decay caused by rollbacks of policing and
sentencing for more serious crimes.
As does the proliferation of plainly illegal weed shops here.
1169
What do you think? Post a comment.
Nearly a third of adults under 35 regularly smoke weed; nearly 70% of
Americans back legalization, despite all this.
They need to wake up and smell the blunt smoke before the next big drug
crisis arrives.
Turdzy McButterpants
29 September, 2023
The lung is a one of the most delicate organs in the body, and is
therefore highly vulnerable to damage. Your lungs were not designed to
inhale cigarette or weed smoke any more than your liver was designed to
process alcohol.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/29/weed-makes-you-crazy-and-gives-you-heart-
disease-whys-it-legal/
Klaus Schadenfreude
Nov 10, 2023, 3:09:29 PM11/10/23
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[Default] methyl viologen <sprayt...@save.now> typed:
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>A new, peer-reviewed study (on a significant data set of nearly 60,000
>Canadians) has shown that adults who misuse pot
Weed "use" versus "misuse."
Nice goal post move
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>A new, peer-reviewed study (on a significant data set of nearly 60,000
>Canadians) has shown that adults who misuse pot
Nice goal post move
Joel
Nov 10, 2023, 4:26:27 PM11/10/23
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Klaus Schadenfreude <klaus.schadenfreude.Zwergentöter.@gmail.com>
wrote:
If you are going to accuse a "goal post move", include the God damn
context that is supposedly being referenced, when introducing
crossposting to a thread.
--
Joel Crump
wrote:
context that is supposedly being referenced, when introducing
crossposting to a thread.
--
Joel Crump
Klaus Schadenfreude
Nov 10, 2023, 7:12:20 PM11/10/23
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[Default] Joel <joel...@gmail.com> typed:
Sorry, I forgot that you might be reading the thread. I should have
included the second grade level explanation as well.
included the second grade level explanation as well.
Relf
Nov 11, 2023, 5:36:30 AM11/11/23
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> adults who misuse pot have a 60% higher risk of experiencing
> their first heart attack, stroke, or other major cardiovascular event.
I smoke raspberry leaf joints/roaches ( tastes like lawn clippings );
> their first heart attack, stroke, or other major cardiovascular event.
that's it -- no tobacco, no skunk/weed. Everything in _MODERATION_.
I get plenty of SecondHand smoke, skunk, from my neighbors.
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