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Sen. Booker Hides Behind Pot’s Smoke Screen theepochtimes.com/sen-booker-hid… via @epochtimes
Contrary to drug dealer deceptions, there is such a thing as marijuana abuse or addiction. It’s technical name is “diagnosable cannabis use disorder,” and from 2006 to 2014 it tripled. It accounts for 11% of all psychosis cases in emergency rooms, 90,000 per year, 250 a day.
One potential reason: The potency of the drug has exploded as well. Between the 1970s and today, as farming and cloning technologies evolve, marijuana’s THC content has increased about 10-fold.
Which leads to even worse news: Berenson has found, “a mountain of peer-reviewed research in top medical journals” shows marijuana can cause or worsen mental illness.
Teens who smoke marijuana regularly approximately triple their risk of schizophrenia.
The National Academy of Medicine in 2017 reported, “cannabis use is likely to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychoses; the higher the use, the greater the risk.”
The National Academy of Medicine in 2017 reported, “cannabis use is likely to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychoses; the higher the use, the greater the risk.”
In a 2017 Booker claimed states that have done so “are seeing decreases in violent crime.” Well no. The first four states to legalize marijuana for recreational use saw a five-year increase of 37% for murders and 25% for aggravated assaults, far greater than the national increase
This is not a surprise. For instance, Berenson reports, a 2013 journal article studying 1,600 psychiatric patients in southern Italy found marijuana use was associated with a 10-fold increase in violence.
Likewise, a 2007 study of defendants who had committed homicide during psychotic episodes found almost two-thirds reported misusing marijuana—“more than alcohol and amphetamines combined.”
The deaths are not always deliberate. Marijuana is associated with more child deaths from abuse and neglect than alcohol, and “more than cocaine, methamphetamines, and opioids combined” according to reports from Texas, one of the rare states that tracks perpetrators’ drug use.
And to reiterate: teens who smoke pot about tripled their risk of schizophrenia in one study, and 27 percent of schizophrenics had been diagnosed with cannabis use disorder in another.
In sum: More marijuana, more mental illness, more murder.
In sum: More marijuana, more mental illness, more murder.
