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.
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.