or 30 years, Dr. Libby Stuyt, a recently retired addiction psychiatrist in Pueblo, Colorado, treated patients with severe drug dependency. Typically, that meant alcohol, heroin, and methamphetamines. But about five years ago, she began to see something new.
“I started seeing people with the worst psychosis symptoms that I have ever seen,” she told me. “And the worst delusions I have ever seen.”
These cases were even more acute than what she’d seen from psychotic patients on meth. Some of the delusions were accompanied by “severe violence.” But these patients were coming up positive only for cannabis.
Stuyt wasn’t alone: Health care professionals throughout Colorado and all over the country were seeing similar episodes.
Ben Cort, who runs an addiction recovery center in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, watched a young man jump up on the table in the emergency department and strip naked, claiming he was the God of thunder and threatening to kill everyone in the room, including two police officers. A collegiate athlete Cort worked with also had a psychotic episode and was shot five times by the police with a beanbag gun before he was subdued. In Los Angeles County, Blue Stohr, a psychiatric social worker, had a patient who climbed a 700-foot crane and considered jumping off of it, not because he was suicidal but because he thought he was in a computer simulation, like The Matrix.
Those patients, too, were high only on cannabis.
grow your own, only way to be safe lol
Agreed. You never know what the government bud has in it.... That being said I've bought from legal dispensaries numerous times and have never jumped up on a table naked claiming to be the god of thunder. All I claimed to be was the king of chiiiillllll and snacks. This stuff is just another way to try keeping it illegal until the government can profit off it it indefinitely
If we make illegal the medicine you can produce at home, now you have to but the pharma version and the circle of profit continues on.
When Psilo & DMT become legal, game over, humanity will turn to the light after much healing. Deep wounds will be healed, personal development renaissance will ensue and the coaches will be ready to assist. We have already begun this healing process.
Agreed. Don't have any experience with DMT but I've heard stories.
Lol yeah what?
I regularly get the "high potency THC" products from the medical side, and I also know many of the old people who get their fix from there.
I've never heard of anything psychotic like this.
Maybe someone should look into the fact Colorado is a blue state instead
Thats an excellent point! I wonder why the blue states close to me are the only ones with legal pot.... Colorado and Illinois.... And the tax on it in Illinois is something retarded like 46%. Definitely no government grifting there..... Nope not at all....
If I could keep the goll dang squirrels from digging up my babies I would.
It's weed ... Relax.
By far. Not even comparable. Also, comparing pot to oxy is not even possible. It's absurd. I've literally seen people send terminal cancer into remission and someone with parkinsons find peace and can live a normal life by simply eating it. It's a medicine.
Lol such nonsense
Utter tripe.
The weed- the horror.
I want to be able to attend an opera smoking a crack pipe by the time we are done with the Great Awakening.
My body, my choice - freedom.
It's the same tactic as with Reefer Madness.
That's my kind of opera
I have never had crack but it could not hurt those stuffy affairs.
Opera should be rowdy !
Lets run. LET'S RUN. Like Lions and tigers and Bears !
There should be no such thing as a victimless "crime." Funny though how victimless "crimes" are always the government being the "victim".
I have said this very thing myself.
There should be no victimless crime period.
True tail....weed helped me lose 130lbs. How? Weed is known for giving people the munchies and I would note on my glucose meter that my blood sugar was dropping 50-60 points when I smoked. With my blood sugar at the time running in the 250's I wouldn't even get the munchies in reality. So I smoked, ate proper, walked and had a strenuous job and two years later I was 130lbs lighter and I've kept the weight off now for 12yrs. My A1C's average 7-9 not great but better then the 11-15's I was averaging then.
Now about the fools you posted about. They were messed up before they even smoked anything. Reefer Madness on steroids'? I've seen a college kid strip and crawl into a public fountain in Amsterdam but he was on mushrooms. There is no weed that has even made me react in the ways reported. So lacking video of the reported problems I am not inclined to believe article.
One thing is certain as weed has gotten stronger fewer people approach their PCP and big pharma as many people's ouchies are now being tended too by a weed and not their poison. And the industry doesn't like that so lets demonize a weed again is starting to ramp up, it seems.
Weed has lots of benefits honestly. Obviously anything in excess is probably not good for you, but I've been smoking pot for almost 9 years now semi regularly, and I've NEVER had any of these side effects. Not even once. The only paranoia I get is because it's federally illegal and I really don't wanna go to the slammer for something as miniscule as a few g's of pot. I've had everything from hash to concentrates and everything in between. As long as I know my limits I'm perfectly fine and like you said, it makes me think more deeply on many occasions and gets my creative juices flowing in overdrive on other occasions. And honestly, I feel more in tune with the Holy spirit when I put my mind into that mode. I can more clearly see the hand of God at work around me when my mind is quieted down and more relaxed. This may be an unpopular practice, but I've been to church high before. It was one of the most moving experiences ive had truly. God created everything in the heavens and the earth, including pot. It was made for our benefit in numerous ways and I thank God that I'm able to enjoy and partake in His creation that He made for us
I have, but this was in the early 70's smoking black afghani hashish, courtesy of Howard Marks. It was just about all there was to smoke in the UK then, the only herb was piss poor stuff the Jamaicans in Brixton got posted to them.
This hashish made me very agitated, I trembled and shook violently, could not sleep or relax and the music I liked to play was an awful din.
Thanks a bunch you Welsh git!
So many things wrong.
"Blue Stohr, a psychiatric social worker..."....??
Is that to mean a social worker who works with psychotics? There's no such official title or capacity.
That's psychiatry and/or psychology fields. What is a social worker doing in a jail/prison cell with a psychotic prisoner isn't clear. In fact, it's strange.
But.. if the person was psychotic, then the same effect might be had with placebos. These are anecdotal stories with skewed variables and shouldn't be considered science.
Firstly, THC levels were not measured in the past except in government labs, and different types of THC and related cannabinoids exist in different values in different strains and even vary plant to plant. Each has a different effect and strength.
Like all genetic experiments, a certain leveling of potency takes place and even drops, sometimes becoming a 'mule'. Think seedless, today's preferred plant.
All the studies have been done, I studied those studies in a high level Sociology class called Drugs and Society. The results were skewed by the guy who took over as Drug Czar, Dr. Schlesinger, Hollyweird kicked in with "Reefer Madness", and the smoke that relaxes the body and opens the mind was demonized by the same state who trafficked it in, through their pirate contingencies.
Today, geneticists have crossed fruit plants with pot, giving 50 'varieties' of tooty fruity that regardless of number of THC given, rather than NumberS, on the scale of potency of the Best Strains of yesteryear vs today...falls short, like the memory of it most never had.
It's MSM tutti fruitti propaganda. Why now after seeming to admit the propaganda of the past was overblown?
Because they are about to lose control of the legal dispensaries.
So...............:"Reefer Madness" here we come again.
Psychotics with 'long-term 'drug dependencies' do not a control group make for ANY subject except psychosis.
Cool, more reefer madness 🙄
Now to address how your daddy's recreational marijuana was turned into Oxycontin or Meth or Fentanyl.........
Marijuana was/is found to create a 'bridge' between the hemispheres of the brain during thought. It stimulates thought.
As for oxy/meth/fent.....each of those three have the Opposite effect. They compartmentalize the brain, shutting down the communication between hemispheres. This allows the 'dreamstate' to become Unfettered which induces psychosis.
Apples and Orange pot bad comparisons only serve to hide the real threat behind all.
Some native Americans would see God's hand in the nature of smoke that relaxes and makes one think. So they made it a ritual of 'truth-telling' in creating treaties. The Smoke of Truth in their words rising to heaven in confirmation.
And then those with forked tongues would lie about the whole experience.
in the same way, alcohol is said to 'bring out one's spirits'.
To each his own.
One of the most important things for me in the new world is that nanny state governments fuck off, get hung and then die.
It is my body, my choice.
I don't need a nanny state telling me a single thing about any substances ranging from Tylenol to fucking crack.
I and I alone will make the decision about what drugs I will or will not take and the state has no fucking say in it. Period.
That is freedom, nothing short will suffice.
Fuck Tablet Magazine.
COnsidering there are cannabis products out there that are nearly pure THC (100%), I can see repeated use in someone already off-balance causing some form of psychosis. I've seen flower as high as 50%. That's just way too strong and makes me wonder what type of GMO effect has been done to the strains of pot.
"Are we here to do the job or amuse ourselves?" - Dr.Gonzo
Honestly - a harden the fuck up bracelet will focus the mind and provide intenstinal fortitude.
If people want 100% THC products, let them have them.
too strong too strong. says who. The government? Fuck the government !
Says you? Well don't take it. Freedom !
Pure THC is not pleasant, I have tried some lab synthesized stuff, its weird in a bad way. It has to have other natural cannabis chemicals in it to be pleasant and therapeutic.
I have not had it. If someone wants 200% pure THC I believe it's their business.
It's certainly not the fucking government's business after this.
I "od'd" on Rick Simpson oil once. See I made some oil and thought I fucked up and got it too hot. It was a sludge and not a goo. So I made myself a #4 capsule (very small) full of it. Turns out that shit was right and it was the most fucked up I've ever been. That's about 10 times a normal dose that will give you half day couch lock. I was a little paranoid.
The ole RSO. My friend was getting it when his wife was dying of cancer. I am unaffected by edibles. Yes, I've tried extreme high doses and nada.
I've never seen cannabis break 33% I'm open to being proven wrong though. I think there's a biological limit to the chemistry going on.
I had to go back and look at the photo my friend sent me of the container. It's 43% THC, 50% cannabinoids. Indica. https://ibb.co/mDmGZMh
Interesting thanks
This might be one of the dumbest things I've read in my entire life.
These people are stupid.
From the folks that think Reefer Madness is a documentary. High only on cannabis...BS.
They should have some of my edibles.
Theres a market for high potency canna. But nature intended more of a CBD/THC balance, the CBD curbs the psychoactive feel of the THC. So for things like chronic pain, mood and anxiety issues a ratio of 2:1 (CBD:THC) works well in addressing the issues but without as much of a high.
More of an FYI but also of you get too high and need to come down quickly use some CBD or suck on a few peppercorns for a few mins. It works great for those times you went too hard.
Buy edibles from small independent pharms only.