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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To EAT now to burn and suck into your lungs and affect your brain, and Dont believe the bull shit that the guy toking in the car next to you ain’t going to turn that key and drive away safely down the freeway. What’s the devils role? Trust me he has one. Are you willing to risk your kids, wife mom? Yeah, the reality vs the dream.
It doesn't say to eat. It says to use. If there is a god why would it want people to not use the most medicinal plant on the planet by far? Nothing is even close. It helps with countless different issues. You can get a lot of those medicinal effects by smoking by the way. Why are anti-Cannabis people always ignorant?
Eating can produce unpredictable results in some people. due to digestive system. Do what's right for you is best.
Eating it does not do anything at all. It has to be burnt to produce its effects.
Juicing buds half as big as your fist each morning and drinking that produces a condition that brings your whole system into harmony, its makes you amazingly balanced and harmonious. Each morning forever.
If that works for you, I rejoice in your harmonious life. My friend is a bakery goods consumer. He never is sure of when they take effect tho .He swears by them.
Frankincense and myrhh. Stoned drivers are probably safer than non-stoned.
someone that has only read material 20 years old-never actually smoked the herb
But a nut crazed with pills and liquor you'll accept. Mary Jane is for smart people. As the man said. it ain't for everyone. I'll stick with what God says not some big pharmaceutical rep.