By Megan Twohey, Danielle Ivory and Carson Kessler The reporters are continuing to examine cannabis policies, use of the drug and the rise of the commercial market.
Published Oct. 4, 2024 Updated Oct. 7, 2024
https://dnyuz.com/2024/10/04/as-americas-marijuana-use-grows-so-do-the-harms/
In midcoast Maine, a pediatrician sees teenagers so dependent on cannabis that they consume it practically all day, every day — “a remarkably scary amount,” she said.
From Washington State to West Virginia, psychiatrists treat rising numbers of people whose use of the drug has brought on delusions, paranoia and other symptoms of psychosis.
And in the emergency departments of small community hospitals and large academic medical centers alike, physicians encounter patients with severe vomiting induced by the drug — a potentially devastating condition that once was rare but now, they say, is common. “Those patients look so sick,” said a doctor in Ohio, who described them “writhing around in pain.”
As marijuana legalization has accelerated across the country, doctors are contending with the effects of an explosion in the use of the drug and its intensity. A $33 billion industry has taken root, turning out an ever-expanding range of cannabis products so intoxicating they bear little resemblance to the marijuana available a generation ago. Tens of millions of Americans use the drug, for medical or recreational purposes — most of them without problems.
But with more people consuming more potent cannabis more often, a growing number, mostly chronic users, are enduring serious health consequences.
The accumulating harm is broader and more severe than previously reported. And gaps in state regulations, limited public health messaging and federal restraints on research have left many consumers, government officials and even medical practitioners in the dark about such outcomes.
Again and again, The New York Times found dangerous misconceptions.
Many users believe, for instance, that people cannot become addicted to cannabis. But millions do.
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I know more than one person SERIOUSLY brain damaged from pot. It's not harmless, far from it.
The government legalized it because they want you stoned and compliant.
Lol...yeah ok bud. Show me where the government has legalized weed. They rescheduled it from a schedule 1 to schedule 3 drug if I'm not mistaken but I'd sure love to see you provide me with info on Marijuana being legalized by the government.
States where it is recreationally or medically legal, THE PEOPLE voted to make it that way. But it is most certainly still an illegal substance according to the federal government.
You better go look at things again. The federal government made it illegal because of its medicinal properties and because the hemp plant single handedly would have put the timber industry out of business.
Anything can be dangerous if not consumed responsibly.
Canada. Fully, 100% legal. https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/cannabis/
Haha canada...that's the beginning and end of the discussion. I don't live in Canada nor do I care about what laws they have there. I live in the United States of America.
Marijuana has the same effect, no matter what side of the border you're on.