Since this topic has been raised a couple of times recently, I’ll offer these two follow up articles from the NYPost. I’m sure most readers are by now aware that this Crimo III grew up in a very disturbed household environment, and that the father is now parading around talking about holding his head high and feeling no responsibility. No word on reactions on that score from nearby residents, but:
When I was a police officer I would occasionally go through the custody photos of the petty crime/burglary nominals who were constantly through the system. Drug users all. Starting with the fresh faced 1st arrest and going through til present day was like a time lapse presentation of what happens to a body and mind when drugs are put into them. Cannabis was always the gateway drug. It's still illegal in the UK but the legalise movement is gathering pace and police rarely bother with possession offences anymore. The product here is now called skunk - the buds are genetically modified to be even stronger and cannabis induced psychosis is a real and present danger daily in towns and cities up and down the country. If anyone's interested the best example this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3135955/Paranoid-schizophrenic-beheaded-great-grandmother-not-guilty-reason-insanity.html.
My husband worked that borough. Fat Nick was a habitual cannabis user and gang member. He's not the only one I could mention.
Reports today that the Mom left the kid in he car during the summer years ago for almost 30 minutes with the windows closed. She was sighted and given community service hours. Plus Mom had a previous DUI. The kid wasn't wanted by either parent. Upbringing in loving households are a must.
Coincidences do occur, but rarely when money is involved. For people focused on making big bucks, societal dysfunction is someone else's problem. Same reasoning applies to shipping manufacturing overseas. Funny how it's all related.
I used to be pro legalization, since I knew some potheads in the 80’s in high school and college and I viewed it as harmless. Cheech and Chong era.
My experience the last couple of years has changed my opinion on marijuana. The amount of disfunction / paranoia / mental health issues due to it I seen first hand has been heart breaking.
Ca Governor was also backed by pot money. Interesting coincidence…
From the same era and held a similar view on legalization, mostly out of some naive libertarianism on my part and my experience to that point suggesting that pot didn't seem to cause more societal ills than alcohol abuse.
It wasn't until a HS-teacher friend of mine (ironically, the perpetually-stoned ringleader of our dozens of road trips to Dead shows in the late '80s) started sending around articles and scientific studies explaining some the alarming changes she was seeing in her students shortly after 2012 legalization in her state, Colorado.
The reality is that, once pot went from stoner horticulturalists working on hybrids to actual scientists churning out THC-maxxed products in the lab, this was "not our parents' weed." Far from it, as the spike in ER visits by young people in psychosis bears out.
The last time I smoked dope was on June 27, 1980. Why do I remember? We got high walking from the parking lot into Candlestick Park where we were four of the 20,000 or so fans who watched Dodger pitcher Jerry Reuss pitch a no-hitter against the Giants. We didn't realize what was happening until the 7th inning. Had it not been for a throwing error it would have been a perfect game. We were too stoned to appreciate what we witnessed, and I swore smoking dope off the next morning. And that's when dope was relatively weak.
Agreed Mary. And, one may wonder if there are studies on contraindications between mj and some of these SSRIs. I will be heading out to a med conference soon. I will have the opportunity to ask the mental health docs what their take is on the Tucker piece generally, of course not mentioning that it came from Tucker, and whether they have read or researched any of this -- or have colleagues who have.
When I was a police officer I would occasionally go through the custody photos of the petty crime/burglary nominals who were constantly through the system. Drug users all. Starting with the fresh faced 1st arrest and going through til present day was like a time lapse presentation of what happens to a body and mind when drugs are put into them. Cannabis was always the gateway drug. It's still illegal in the UK but the legalise movement is gathering pace and police rarely bother with possession offences anymore. The product here is now called skunk - the buds are genetically modified to be even stronger and cannabis induced psychosis is a real and present danger daily in towns and cities up and down the country. If anyone's interested the best example this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3135955/Paranoid-schizophrenic-beheaded-great-grandmother-not-guilty-reason-insanity.html.
My husband worked that borough. Fat Nick was a habitual cannabis user and gang member. He's not the only one I could mention.
Cannabis is poison
This is another area of Anglo-American culture in which a kind of default libertarianism--you make your own standards--has had a deleterious effect.
Reports today that the Mom left the kid in he car during the summer years ago for almost 30 minutes with the windows closed. She was sighted and given community service hours. Plus Mom had a previous DUI. The kid wasn't wanted by either parent. Upbringing in loving households are a must.
Coincidences do occur, but rarely when money is involved. For people focused on making big bucks, societal dysfunction is someone else's problem. Same reasoning applies to shipping manufacturing overseas. Funny how it's all related.
I used to be pro legalization, since I knew some potheads in the 80’s in high school and college and I viewed it as harmless. Cheech and Chong era.
My experience the last couple of years has changed my opinion on marijuana. The amount of disfunction / paranoia / mental health issues due to it I seen first hand has been heart breaking.
Ca Governor was also backed by pot money. Interesting coincidence…
From the same era and held a similar view on legalization, mostly out of some naive libertarianism on my part and my experience to that point suggesting that pot didn't seem to cause more societal ills than alcohol abuse.
It wasn't until a HS-teacher friend of mine (ironically, the perpetually-stoned ringleader of our dozens of road trips to Dead shows in the late '80s) started sending around articles and scientific studies explaining some the alarming changes she was seeing in her students shortly after 2012 legalization in her state, Colorado.
The reality is that, once pot went from stoner horticulturalists working on hybrids to actual scientists churning out THC-maxxed products in the lab, this was "not our parents' weed." Far from it, as the spike in ER visits by young people in psychosis bears out.
If one were executing a Great Reset wouldn’t it be an advantage to have a portion of society tuned out?
Short, easy answer: Yes.
“Conservatives” who favor legal weed have their heads in the sand…
…or up their arse.
The last time I smoked dope was on June 27, 1980. Why do I remember? We got high walking from the parking lot into Candlestick Park where we were four of the 20,000 or so fans who watched Dodger pitcher Jerry Reuss pitch a no-hitter against the Giants. We didn't realize what was happening until the 7th inning. Had it not been for a throwing error it would have been a perfect game. We were too stoned to appreciate what we witnessed, and I swore smoking dope off the next morning. And that's when dope was relatively weak.
Agreed Mary. And, one may wonder if there are studies on contraindications between mj and some of these SSRIs. I will be heading out to a med conference soon. I will have the opportunity to ask the mental health docs what their take is on the Tucker piece generally, of course not mentioning that it came from Tucker, and whether they have read or researched any of this -- or have colleagues who have.