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Mother Jones going full-on reefer madness is not how I expected 2019 to start, but here we are motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
This is the kind of crappy, alarmist coverage that @aaronecarroll has done a good job deconstructing in the past, particularly in the realm of alcohol nytimes.com/2017/11/10/ups…
I am dumbfounded that a line like this is printed as an uncontested fact in the year of our lord 2019, given everything we know about the deep link between racism and attitudes toward cannabis in the 19th and 20th centuries motherjones.com/politics/2019/… 
Rule of thumb: any writer who attempts to pass off phrases like "cannabis-related insanity" and "cannabis-induced madness" with a straight face should not be taken seriously on questions of either drug policy or mental health.
It's very clear that there are risks associated with marijuana use. We owe it to ourselves to discuss them honestly. But talking about beheadings and "cannabis-induced madness" is... not the way to do that.
