Post B078xtW9s1T3UmsntQ by LaylaAlexandrovna@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #B066p9cAG7p5kLR9QO by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2025-11-09T21:16:51.207935Z
       
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       https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-inconvenient-truth-about-cannabis-and-mental-illness/The liberal narrative that smoking cannabis is harmless is based on weed use decades ago. The average strength of cannabis has tripled in the past 20 years. The strain known as skunk – named for its pungent odour – is typically grown indoors, treated with chemicals and bred for an exceptionally high THC content.‘When you start smoking with your mates at 14 or 15, you are literally growing your brain in a cannabis soup,’ says Dr Lade Smith, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. ‘There’s no doubt at all. Cannabis is a cause of psychosis.’ A study published in JAMA Psychiatry found that south-east London has the highest rates of first-episode psychosis in Europe and the second highest in the world after Trinidad. But when Dr Smith pushed for a public health campaign, she was accused of using a racist trope despite being black herself. ‘It was a way of trying to shut me up,’ she says. ‘There is a very strong lobby.’The silence over cannabis’s danger means it is the most widely used illegal drug in the country. It has spread unchecked to every level of society, from deprived seaside towns and Red Wall constituencies to upmarket suburbs. One teacher tells me how his middle-class white pupils meet before school for a joint. The problem is too many parents view smoking weed as low risk, despite research showing that adolescents who use it are 11 times more likely to have a psychotic episode in later life.https://archive.ph/2IAo8
       
 (DIR) Post #B066pAD233JVaggatE by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
       2025-11-10T08:34:50.766177Z
       
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       @Flick x :1000: 🎯
       
 (DIR) Post #B066q5dwVfhxieiOFU by virvallis@spinster.xyz
       2025-11-09T21:38:51.730033Z
       
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       @Flick This skunk weed stinks. It’s all over NYC streets. I can smell weed driving 60 mph from cars in front of me, no joke.
       
 (DIR) Post #B066q6bUwFLYhMZx4q by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2025-11-09T22:01:13.169803Z
       
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       @virvallis It’s nasty shit, nothing like what older people grew up with. (See also: porn.)
       
 (DIR) Post #B066q7btCHFnorlmKG by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
       2025-11-10T08:34:21.613800Z
       
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       @Flick @virvallis Finally, someone's fucking said it, and about bloody time too, sick of the whining excuses of oh but and whataboutery, and not only that but....YOU PROP UP A DISGUSTING TRADE IN HUMAN MISERY. I have always been hard line re drug use, cannot stand it, any of it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B078xtW9s1T3UmsntQ by LaylaAlexandrovna@spinster.xyz
       2025-11-10T20:33:59.913032Z
       
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       @HebrideanHecate @Flick Compared to alcohol, cannabis is a healing agent for many. I know tons of people who smoke and eat it and none of them are psychotic, much violent. They all lead fruitful lives. IN my entire life I've met one guy who was allergic to it and one guy who was already bipolar and discovered that weed made him more manic. I've known people who say it makes them more anxious but then they just stop using because weed isn't particularly addictive for most people. Yet coke and crack, meth, fentanyl turn people into such zombies, no one knows what to do with them so they are let to rampage and do anything illegal to get MORE. They destroy their fams, friends and clog up the courts. There are bound to be some people who cannot handle any drug yet our whole society is geared towards getting people on extremely dangerous prescription drugs because they are so much more profitable. I do agree that children should not have access to illegal drugs (though cannabis is more or less legal here) and that includes weed. Unfortunately govs of all sorts are shirking their own and the role of society in helping kids to get through life without booze and drugs. IMAGINE that govs would actually help to make a difference in the overuse of drugs but they think money and power are their only real resposibilities. Going easy on dangerous drugs, even the overuse of less addictive and dangerous ones was a stupid stupid move for Canada to make and most of that is because we had a TRUDEAU who is adores ALL the underdogs, ESPECIALLY TRANNIES who have a high rate of addiction issues and now it's WE who were never a problem who have to suffer the consequences.