marijuana and scromiting
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I've known heavy pot smokers for 40 years and I've never heard of this. Sounds like a "Reefer Madness" campaign.
way 2 go
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legalized dope = more dope smokers= more chances of
Even Snopes admits it's mostly true.
https://www.snopes.com/marijuana-screaming-vomiting-aka-scromitting/
https://www.snopes.com/marijuana-screaming-vomiting-aka-scromitting/
Short-term memory problems
Severe anxiety, including fear that one is being watched or followed (paranoia)
Very strange behavior, seeing, hearing or smelling things that aren’t there, not being able to tell imagination from reality (psychosis)
Panic
Hallucinations
Loss of sense of personal identity
Lowered reaction time
Increased heart rate (risk of heart attack)
Increased risk of stroke
Problems with coordination (impairing safe driving or playing sports)
Sexual problems (for males)
Up to seven times more likely to contract sexually transmitted infections
than non-users (for females) 22,32 & 33
LONG-TERM EFFECTS
Decline in IQ (up to 8 points if prolonged use started in adolescent age)
Poor school performance and higher chance of dropping out
Impaired thinking and ability to learn and perform complex tasks
Lower life satisfaction
Addiction (about 9% of adults and 17% of people who started smoking as teens)
Potential development of opiate abuse
Relationship problems, intimate partner violence
Antisocial behavior including stealing money or lying
Financial difficulties
Increased welfare dependence
Greater chances of being unemployed or not getting good jobs.33
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/marijuana/short-and-long-term-effects.html
Severe anxiety, including fear that one is being watched or followed (paranoia)
Very strange behavior, seeing, hearing or smelling things that aren’t there, not being able to tell imagination from reality (psychosis)
Panic
Hallucinations
Loss of sense of personal identity
Lowered reaction time
Increased heart rate (risk of heart attack)
Increased risk of stroke
Problems with coordination (impairing safe driving or playing sports)
Sexual problems (for males)
Up to seven times more likely to contract sexually transmitted infections
than non-users (for females) 22,32 & 33
LONG-TERM EFFECTS
Decline in IQ (up to 8 points if prolonged use started in adolescent age)
Poor school performance and higher chance of dropping out
Impaired thinking and ability to learn and perform complex tasks
Lower life satisfaction
Addiction (about 9% of adults and 17% of people who started smoking as teens)
Potential development of opiate abuse
Relationship problems, intimate partner violence
Antisocial behavior including stealing money or lying
Financial difficulties
Increased welfare dependence
Greater chances of being unemployed or not getting good jobs.33
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/marijuana/short-and-long-term-effects.html
way 2 go
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Drugged driving fatalities
Drugged driving is a safety issue of increasing public concern. Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting
System for 1999 - 2010,
The most commonly detected nonalcohol drug was cannabinol,
the prevalence of which increased from 4.2% in 1999 to 12.2% in 2010
The increase in the prevalence of nonalcohol drugs was observed in all age groups and both sexes.
These results indicate that nonalcohol drugs, particularly marijuana, are increasingly detected in fatally injured drivers
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The AAA Foundation examined drug tests and fatal crashes among drivers in Washington, a state that legalized marijuana in December 2012. The researchers found:
The percentage of drivers involved in fatal crashes who recently used marijuana more than doubled from 8 to 17 percent between 2013 and 2014.
1 in 6 drivers involved in fatal crashes in 2014 had recently used marijuana, which is the most recent data available.
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dope makes you stupid
Colorado's transportation department after a 2014 study revealed a disturbing statistic: 43 percent of the state's marijuana users didn't know it was illegal to drive under the drug's influence.
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Drugged driving is a safety issue of increasing public concern. Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting
System for 1999 - 2010,
The most commonly detected nonalcohol drug was cannabinol,
the prevalence of which increased from 4.2% in 1999 to 12.2% in 2010
The increase in the prevalence of nonalcohol drugs was observed in all age groups and both sexes.
These results indicate that nonalcohol drugs, particularly marijuana, are increasingly detected in fatally injured drivers
link
The AAA Foundation examined drug tests and fatal crashes among drivers in Washington, a state that legalized marijuana in December 2012. The researchers found:
The percentage of drivers involved in fatal crashes who recently used marijuana more than doubled from 8 to 17 percent between 2013 and 2014.
1 in 6 drivers involved in fatal crashes in 2014 had recently used marijuana, which is the most recent data available.
link
dope makes you stupid
Colorado's transportation department after a 2014 study revealed a disturbing statistic: 43 percent of the state's marijuana users didn't know it was illegal to drive under the drug's influence.
link
way 2 go
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almost every article you read on dope statistics tries to downplay the
the danger to everybody else .
Still, there is no question that alcoholic beverages are far more dangerous than marijuana . Yet alcohol is still legal . Every year , thousands of Americans die from alcoholism , and drunk drivers kill many people .
Alcoholic beverages are a major cause of violent crimes, but no one has ever been known to commit a violent crime or any kind of crime under the influence of marijuana. No one has ever died from an overdose of marijuana, because this is not even possible .
Alcoholic beverages are a major cause of violent crimes, but no one has ever been known to commit a violent crime or any kind of crime under the influence of marijuana. No one has ever died from an overdose of marijuana, because this is not even possible .
Yes, due to relaxation of alcohol laws and the promotion of irresponsibility by an immoral society, beverages that are known to help people's health are responsible for their death.
Regarding your promotion of dope:
I'm not sure where you got your information about marijuana not being overdosed and hence no death related incidents due to it (High Times perhaps?), but there are many cases where people have died or caused the death of others due to marijuana usage. Keep in mind that since marijuana is still illegal in most US States, that the usage is still miniscule compared to what it would be if it were legal.
way 2 go
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pot heads are catching up fast on the driving impaired fatality list,
in Colorado up a staggering 145%
link
The 2013-16 period saw a 40 percent increase in the number of all drivers involved in fatal crashes in Colorado, from 627 to 880, according to the NHTSA data. Those who tested positive for alcohol in fatal crashes from 2013 to 2015 — figures for 2016 were not available — grew 17 percent, from 129 to 151.
By contrast, the number of drivers who tested positive for marijuana use jumped 145 percent — from 47 in 2013 to 115 in 2016. During that time, the prevalence of testing drivers for marijuana use did not change appreciably, federal fatal-crash data show.
And the numbers probably are even higher.
State law does not require coroners to test deceased drivers specifically for marijuana use in fatal wrecks — some do and some don’t — and many police agencies say they don’t pursue cannabinoid tests of a surviving driver whose blood alcohol level is already high enough to charge them with a crime
Miami cannibal cannabis smoker Rudy Eugene shocked the world by eating another man's face off and his autopsy shocked liberals when he tested positive only for marijuana and not the rumored bath salts.
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Persistency of Cannabis Use Predicts Violence following Acute Psychiatric Discharge
For instance, results from the longitudinal Dunedin Study, which examined the relative risk for violence among different psychiatric disorders, indicated that after controlling for confounding variables such as other psychiatric disorders or other substance misuses (including alcohol dependence), marijuana-dependent individuals were 3.8 times more likely to report violence than controls (25).
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Cannabis users are more likely to commit violent crime, pioneering research has shown.
It warned those who smoke the drug regularly run an increased risk of using violence against others.
link
glorydaz
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Effects of alcohol are much worse.
way 2 go
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way 2 go
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:nono:
dope is catching up , just need to study it more
and there will be no shortage of people willing to
experiment on themselves
The more dope you smoke, the more likely you are to be a loser, finds international study
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Marijuana users 'have abnormally low blood flow in every part of the brain - including Alzheimer's danger zones
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Although the symptoms are alarming, the majority of cannabis users have nothing to worry about. “CHS is concerning for people who have it, but it is not a major public health hazard,” Tishler said.
-- http://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-...oking-weed-causes-severe-screaming-and-728682
Effects of alcohol are much worse.
You think alcoholics aren't losers?
"Alcohol consumption is one possible risk factor for Alzheimer's Disease." -- https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh25-4/299-306.htm
Effects of alcohol are much worse.
"Here, we demonstrate that the active component of marijuana, Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), competitively inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) as well as prevents AChE-induced amyloid beta-peptide (Abeta) aggregation, the key pathological marker of Alzheimer's disease." -- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17140265
