Autism, schizophrenia, ADHD, sleep paralysis, depression, anxiety, bipolar... All the other naval gazing bullshit.
It's all became super prevalent since the mass introduction of marijuana into our culture. It screws you up and it screws your offspring up. Sure, one or two joint won't kill ya, just like one or two cigarettes won't give you cancer. A glass of wine or two won't deform your fetus. Slam heroin just a couple times and you'll be fine. It's the consistent heavy use of pot by people that has heavy consequences on them and their offspring.
Just a PSA.
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you've got it backwards, people with these problems are drawn to weed as a quick fix. and also happen to be the most terminally online to talk about it
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I think all you have to do is look at the increase in cases since the mid 1960s to see that this is not true. Metal illness diagnosis has been steadily increasing over the past 50 years, and it is currently ubiquitous among our youth. Weed not only physically creates mental illness, it also curates it.
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hmm i wonder why more people are diagnosed now when there's an influx of expensive drugs that they can give them to "help"
I'm not normally a conspiracy strag but there's an obvious incentive here. Pot is the easy to get sedative that temporarily fixes most common problems that in the past you would just deal with (anxiety, depression, slight pain relief, etc)
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As with most things the answer is "it's complicated". There has been a lot of advances in diagnostics (biomarkers and genetics for example), in infrastructure (better coverage of mental healthcare professionals), a growing acceptance to visit shrinks and get diagnosed as r-slur, and probably more stuff I'm missing. And yes, of course pharma companies have an incentive to push their drugs. That said it's r-slurred to link the increase of mental illness diagnosis solely or even in great part to pharma companies wanting to sell stuff. When it comes to depressive disorders, ADHD, anxiety and such there are many generics out there which would be used as first-line treatment. And those generics don't exactly make much money. But this frickery does happen, just look at the opioid crisis: It can be directly linked back to Purdue Pharma pushing hospitals to overprescribe them and use patient-reported pain as a metric of success.
With weed there is research showing that people with mental illness do use it as coping mechanism. There's also research showing that people who smoke weed for example are at higher risk to develop schizophrenia later in life. Now r-slurs see this and say confidently "so it does cause schizophrenia!!", but the truth is that it's again more complicated. While weed certainly might contribute to a worse outcome, or even outright trigger it, it's clearly not the sole factor. There's also genetic predisposition (the big one) and a ton of other environmental factors such as stress. It's the same with other psychological/neurological disorders. The TL;DR is don't do drugs if you're at risk of developing r-sluration. So if your great grand-uncle insisted midgets live in his walls you should abstain. From alcohol too, that's also a factor.
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I don't know what you said, because I've seen another human naked.
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Sure, fine. Rampant drug use (with pot the primary offender) is a problem both physically to the individual, their children, and on a societal scale.
I'm saying there are "common" problems now that there weren't before. And I don't think marketing from the drug companies is fully to blame.
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