The recreational use of marijuana has been glamorized over the years by such on-screen duos as Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, but is the drug everything that Hollywood makes it out to be? Then again, are we being hypocritical by allowing alcohol consumption but not cannabis usage? With passionate believers on both sides of the argument, it will be interesting to see what happens when the smoke clears.
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Experts Agree That Marijuana Contributes to Mental Illness
- From Dr Kevin Sabet
By Dr. Kevin Sabet - Special Advisor for Policy, ONDCP
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I am 60 started during Vietnam and I say it is the only thing that has protected my mental health!!! Dealing with the day to day knowledge of what our so called leaders are doing. Go to http://www.november.org / and read the stories of every day normal Americans that have had there lives ruined by our leaders. Look deeper and see why they destroy so many ( hint follow the money)
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 17, 2008 10:33PM
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Mental Problems
The only mental problem I have with all the facts given, it drives me crazy that we do not have legal MJ. I am sure if they study people that drink ever day they would find many more health problems so why is it legal and they put us in jail thats JAIL for using weed our choice. All you have to do is see who is paying all the bills to keep it illegal.
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 30, 2008 6:37PM
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Who paid these "experts" ?
Every study I have seen that shows that Marijuana has some type of bad effect on the body or the mind also has, upon study of the research itself, a sever bias built into the way the data is collected, correlated and interpreted.
In fact many of the studys that claim that MJ has harmful effects are based upon previous flawed studys and not upon any new clinical research or even observation.
Personally I feel this is due to the fact that these researchers and authors don't want to bite the hand that is feeding them, IE...paying them to say what they want them to say!
- Guido B September 21, 2008 4:53PM
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Marijuana helps me cope with my bipolar disorder
I have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the only thing that works when my prescribed medications fail is MARIJUANA. Why isn't marijuana being research to see how it can help treat "certain" mental disorders?
I use marijuana all the time to treat some of my symptoms of bipolar and it has NEVER caused me to experience psychosis. We don't even know if the people involved in the clinical trials were diagnosed with some form of psychosis BEFORE they participated in the study. People only get paranoid because marijuana is ILLEGAL and we are scared to get arrested or have people snitch on us.
All people have to make it safer is to use a "vaporizer" DUH!!! It takes out the bad chemicals and leaves the THC. People do research and clinical trials to see how marijuana may treat PHYSICAL disorders in the U.S. so why not "MENTAL" disorders?
Why should I have to suffer from extreme mania and depression just because my present "sub par" medications DON'T WORK and people refuse to do the research? I thought medical doctors psychologist were smarter than that. I deserve the BEST treatment possible but obviously medical doctors, psychologist and especially our government don't give a damn about people like me!!
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December 24, 2008 6:43PM
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Mental Illness??
The only mental illness I have encountered is the Drug Enforcement Administration and cops on these nazi task forces! People like that leon lott dude that was attacking michael phelps,now that is mental illness at its worst. Pot is non habit forming and no one has ever died from it. so much for the flawed medical theories about cancer causing and other propaganda! Disband the DEA and send em packing!!! Idiots
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February 18, 2009 1:00PM
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Which experts?
Saying that 'experts' have found all this data proving the harmful effects of marijuana is ,to me atleast, the same as in WW2 when the nazi's propaganda showed 'scientific evidence' that the jewish and african people where inferior to whites. The way i see it, all these studies are done by people who are biased againt it, conduct biased studies, and thus they get biased results.
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I use marijuana all the time to treat some of my symptoms of bipolar and it has NEVER caused me to experience psychosis. We don't even know if the people involved in the clinical trials were diagnosed with some form of psychosis BEFORE they participated in the study. People only get paranoid because marijuana is ILLEGAL and we are scared to get arrested or have people snitch on us.
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anyone who dissagrees is mentally ill.
that's how it works. if you read the psychology books they print.. it's a quackery.
They pretty much state that anything besides being selfish and dishonest is considered a mental disease. That's how they control the people. These people with their academia can not think.
We have powerful liars in the highest seats of academia.
it's not a question of if these people recognize the quakery or not. They simply do not care. truth is not an object. only power is an object.
They should no longer exist. we can destroy the whole of europe with a bio plague. we can invade the west coast united states.capture north east.
it most likely will be the scenario.
i designed underground sub bases in china . they can capture the whole us coast in 24 hours.
- jxzac April 14, 2009 10:52AM
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