The World Health Organization (WHO) is pretty much the undisputed authority when it comes to advising planet earth – and all of its wonderful citizens – on any and all things health related. I Heard CBD Was Legal to Buy?Of course, even though CBD “technically” is listed as a Schedule I substance, companies across the U.S. Are selling and shipping it (legally) to customers in all 50 states.How are they doing this? Well, one of the “loopholes” in cannabis policy, so to speak, is that hemp – which is a species of the cannabis plant – is legal as long as it contains less than 0.3% THC by weight.
Marijuana is not the harmless, safe substance many claim it to be. Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that marijuana smoking in adolescence significantly increases the risk for eventually becoming psychotic and/or developing schizophrenia. This risk is even greater for people who had psychiatric symptoms before their first experience with marijuana and those with schizophrenia in their families.
While hemp does not contain nearly enough THC to get anyone high, it does in most circumstances contain a fair amount of CBD.In fact, the majority of the best CBD oils and CBD-infused products are made from 100% legal industrial hemp – customers can go online, shop around for CBD products, and have it.Naturally, though, given the currently unregulated state of the drug (it is not yet recognized by the FDA), there are TONS of super sketchy companies out there that are currently selling bogus CBD products – oils, balms, creams, etc. They are marketing and selling them as “pure CBD,” when in fact they contain hardly any of the compound at all. While we highly recommend trying CBD out for a number of different ailments, we advise you to be super wary when shopping around or buying online – make sure you do a lot of research, and only buy from a reputable brand that has a lot of valid customer reviews and quality feedback. Final Thoughts on the Safety of CBDHe at MarijuanaBreak, if we made some sort of a statement like “CBD is totally safe!” or, “CBD is awesome and doesn’t get you high at all!” it wouldn’t exactly carry that much weight among the general population.However, when an organization like WHO comes out and makes pretty much those exact comments, it would be wise of you (and more importantly governments worldwide) to stop and listen. The fact of the matter is that CBD is safe, reliable, and effective, and the sooner everyone understands this, the healthier we will all be.
In my practice I see a lot of adolescents and young adults, many of whom smoke. Almost to a person they will tell me that marijuana is harmless and hasn’t caused any problems in their life. To bolster their claim they will often add that if marijuana were harmful, why have two states legalized it and another handful of states made it legal to use medicinally. And almost to a person they will add the clencher: “Besides, marijuana is all-natural.”Before I go on, I will offer two caveats to try to ensure that people don’t misinterpret what follows. First, despite being legal, I believe that is moderately to much worse than marijuana in most respects. And second, I think our country’s war on is largely misguided and a waste of resources.With those disclaimers out of the way, I now want to state unequivocally that marijuana is not the harmless, safe substance many might like to think, especially for those under age 30. Because has now shown us that the brain continues to develop until the late 20s, and using drugs while the brain is still developing can influence how it develops and result in moderate to potentially significant downstream problematic effects.When adolescents use marijuana, for example, the white matter of their brains can undergo changes that are similar to the brains of individuals with. Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that marijuana in significantly increases the risk for eventually becoming and/or developing schizophrenia.
This risk is even greater for people who had psychiatric symptoms before their first experience with marijuana and those with schizophrenia in their families.And furthermore, more and more data are confirming the fact that marijuana users are also at increased risk for developing and later in their lives, as well as having deficits.Suppose someone wants to comfort himself by saying that he only smokes once in a while—in what I might call the “almost addicted” range—and that therefore he is not at any increased risk for developing psychiatric issues as a result of marijuana use? Data show that even using marijuana occasionally can carry with it an increased risk of psychiatric disorders. For example, a Swedish study found a 70-percent increased risk of becoming schizophrenic for those who’d used marijuana just five to 10 times over their lifetime. These same researchers found that those who’d used marijuana more than 50 times in their life had a more than 600-percent increased risk of schizophrenia.And it is not just psychiatric problems that can result from marijuana use. The vast majority of young marijuana users I have seen—and I grant that I might see a skewed sample in my medical practice—have seen their academic performance drop concomitantly with their marijuana use, their athletic prowess diminish, and difficulties within their families rise.Marijuana is also potentially addictive. For more on this see. But even for those who do not progress to become addicted to marijuana, there is a realm between the casual user and the full-on addict that I label '-folks who don't meet anyone's definition of but who might be having difficulties in their life as a result of their drug use nonetheless.
For more on this in-between condition feel free to go.There is much more that I might write—and will in following posts—but suffice it to say that being “all-natural” does not mean that marijuana is safe and harmless. After all, the two biggest killers in our midst—namely tobacco and alcohol—are in and of themselves all natural substances. How likely is a person who doesn't smoke pot to develop schizophrenia? If smoking weed causes a 70% increase in the CHANCE of schizophrenia, then what exactly is the base number? 70% could be a lot or a little, depending on one's base chances.That being said, I have a newphew who started smoking pot when he was 12 or 13. He's had a very hard life and yes, indeed he has some pretty serious trouble.
It's a failure of parenting if a kid gets to smoke pot regularly at that age. But, even when accounting for his less than ideal upbringing, his real trouble started when he began using pharmaceuticals like loritab and oxy contin. He graduated from these substances to heroin. While the case can be made that pot in his case was indeed a gateway drug, I would put forward that his bad home life contributed more to his problems than smoking weed.It is my belief that people who have good priorities generally can keep any of their recreational activities under control. It's when a person comes to value being high more than the important relationships in their lives that addiction occurs.
I know many people who live well and have good lives who smoke weed. I also know many people who, due to some trauma in their past, cannot even have a single alcoholic beverage without loosing control.
It's all in the person's character. I've noticed that many drugs, including alcohol and pot could be considered personality enhancers. That is, under the influence, one's personality is amplified. If one already is what I call a negative creep, that trait is amplified.
If they're really jerks, they become more so. People who love to have fun with friends and family are usualy more fun to drink and party with that those who choose, when sober to concentrate on the negative aspects of reality definitley are a drag to be around, cause they become more morose with spirits and pot.I realize this is a relatively simple veiw of a complicated problem. Substance abuse is deadly serious, no doubt there. I've had enough experience watching friends and family self-destruct under that terrible burden.
It's my feeling that it's an error to blame the substance over the person using. Just like the fact any weapon needs to be weilded with intent to harm or to protect, substances do not addict people to themselves; one's choice is at fault. Only by choosing differently every day can a person who is addicted change. Are you trying to scare people?' Perhaps it’s not surprising, then, that marijuana smoking in adolescence significantly increases the risk for eventually becoming psychotic and/or developing schizophrenia.'
So why is pot then an anti-psychotic drug which can be used to treat schizphrenia?seen their academic performance drop concomitantly with their marijuana use, their athletic prowess diminish, and difficulties within their families rise.' And the rest of what you said about people you've seen that have failed their lives due to 'marijuana' is all opinionAlso cite your sources please. I have no idea where you going with this line below'more and more data are confirming the fact that marijuana users are also at increased risk for developing anxiety and depression later in their lives, as well as having memory deficits.'
I was linked here from your article on 'synthetic marijuana' and I cant believe the bs. Where is this literature that support these claims? And were these results replicated? Also whos funding these researchers?Researchers recently found marijuana to increase the ability of a person to run faster than average by 5 folds.
See I said it so it must be true.Going kinda off of samsons point. You must give us some kind of baseline and how that baseline was established.
Not only that but you have to figure out if those who exhibit these abnormalities was from pot or if they would have occured anyways. I will say that people who are. Hmmm I guess disturbed do seem to smoke pot in an higher percentage than those who would be considered 'normal and functioning'. Ofcourse thats just my own observation. That does not mean that pot causes them to become schizophrenic.You give us absolutely nothing. Seems as if youve watched reefer madness one too many times.
I think the conclusion should be massive testing, decriminalization, and regulation. It isn't as harmless as many people sometimes say it is. They downplay dangers and negative effects while sometimes posing huge tu qouque fallacies with alcohol and tobacco which only cloud up the issues about pot.
We're talking about that one substance right? Pot has nothing to do necessarily with alcohol or tobacco. It needs to be regarded as its own drug. Everything looks better when compared with something worse. Most of the people who have had something to say about my opinions on this matter left my arguments mostly unaddressed and insisted to insult me. Hearsay I know. That is not evidence for any negative effects with marijuana but when the topic of finding alternative and proven methods for long term coping is raised, yoga and meditation are as far as I've gotten in conversations before I'm 'taking someone's rights away' and 'including morality in government', 'discriminating against gays', and 'teaching creationism in public schools'.
Codes and laws in this society are to offer the most autonomy within safe and ethical boundaries. So, my opponents in these arguments don't seem to understand law and morality as it applies to government and society.
Instead, they've become offensive and won't calmly address what, to me, seem very reasonable and compassionate takes on the progression of cannabis related politics. My point is that dangers are dismissed and full legalization is the aim of the main arguments when taken alone, and that there is a reason careful, thorough logic is being dodged. One more thing. Some smokers I know are very keen about justifying their intoxication by imbedding their concerns in medicinal marijuana uses for sick people. Sick people using marijuana's properties to.treat.
a problem or disease is different and unrelated to the self-medication or recrestional usage of the average smoker. My opinion is for decriminalization, regulation, research and testing. How much danger?Here are some stats from Science Daily:The investigators found that approximately 245,000 deaths in the United States in the year 2000 were attributable to low levels of education, 176,000 to racial segregation, 162,000 to low social support, 133,000 to individual-level poverty, 119,000 to income inequality, and 39,000 to area-level poverty.unless we can accurately determine the level, is a poor test for what we should and should not do. For example; too much sun is dangerous.What I do think drug use, illegal or excessive drug use, should trigger is an evaluation of the person.
If they are self medicating lets get them the right meds. If the user is using because they are being abused, lets catch a bad guy and put him in jail. Lets figure out what is going on and find a way to treat it that creates the least amount of trouble down the road.You wrote of developing brains.
We know adderall is supplied to children at very early ages. I don't even want to speculate on the problems this is going to cause.Danger levels need to be better defined but, so do levels of what is and is not inconvenient for parents and educators. Sometimes problems are not really problems, they are just a pain in the butt. I see a lot of correlations between cannabis use and various psychological issues in your article, but not much in the realm of causative studies. While I fully agree that marijuana has its downsides and dangers, and it's highly likely that use early in life can negatively affect the brain, there is still a lot to learn, and it does appear to me that at least some of these 'effects' are actually due to some users using cannabis to medicate existing conditions. For example, someone who is prone to depression seems more likely to use marijuana to excess.And as someone else mentioned, what are the base odds that someone will develop schizophrenia?
According to the NIMH, the rates of schizophrenia in the general population are somehwere between 0.25% and 0.64%. So if cannabis can up your chances to.4% or even 4%, that's not nothing, but it's also not a given that you're going do develop psychosis. Is it worth the risk?. I see a lot of correlations between cannabis use and various psychological issues in your article, but not much in the realm of causative studies. While I fully agree that marijuana has its downsides and dangers, and it's highly likely that use early in life can negatively affect the brain, there is still a lot to learn, and it does appear to me that at least some of these 'effects' are actually due to some users using cannabis to medicate existing conditions. For example, someone who is prone to depression seems more likely to use marijuana to excess.And as someone else mentioned, what are the base odds that someone will develop schizophrenia?
According to the NIMH, the rates of schizophrenia in the general population are somehwere between 0.25% and 0.64%. So if cannabis can up your chances to.4% or even 4%, that's not nothing, but it's also not a given that you're going do develop psychosis. Is it worth the risk?. First, let me applaud you for stating your belief that alcohol is worse than marijuana. It takes a lot of guts for a physician to do that.First, I want to correct something here. You say 'almost addicted'.
The problem with this is that marijuana is not physically addictive. Everything, even water, is psychologically addictive.I do agree that marijuana is not harmless. However how much harm does it cause? It causes automobile accidents and fatalities?
Sure it does. So does alcohol, but alcohol isn't illegal for adults. No one should operate a motor vehicle under the influence of ANY intoxicating/faculty impairing substance and there should be strict laws against it. I heard of a steel worker who went to work high. He walked off a beam on the 14th floor. He died in the fall, of course.
Was that marijuana's fault? Perhaps, but I blame him because he shouldn't be doing that (or any, for that matter) kind of work while high.I just think it is hypocrisy in the extreme to ban a substance that is not physically addictive but to allow the use of a substance that IS physically addictive. It should be age restricted under the same guidelines as alcohol.And mental illness? No, it won't cause mental illness, but if you are already mentally ill, it may bring it to the forefront.
Which is, in my opinion, a good thing. That way you know something is wrong and get help for it.
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