Is it right for a Christian to hold a Bible in one hand and a doobie in the other?

[Brakelite]

The context of the story says otherwise,

The context of the character of God says otherwise. He made everything good. Intoxicating wine is fermented... In other words rotten. It's gone off. Jesus did not make fermented alcoholic wine that contradicted every health principle in scripture.

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

Are we going to blame all this on Satan? Maybe their parents? Stress? That is what I am talking about? My disability is that I cannot relate to most of this, and I am sure I am not alone. For those that cannot relate, I what to give the brothers and sisters a perspective into the real world of those that cannot cope or have different issues or why they have made those choices.

Well some people have no strength to deal with things head on, because they never had to deal with such things from when they were a child.
I started working from 7 years old around grumpy old men who were not pleasant at all to be around and I learnt to deal with what was given to me, so when it came to School I had more experience than many of the teachers ever had ever dealt with in reality.
I went to Judo from 7yo and that makes one learn ones reality's and how to deal with situations.
Many a dad will bring his child to Judo in the hope to strengthen the child up to grow into a man.
I see many people who display being tough on the job site but they are dreamers full of themselves bullying others or displaying what ever. trendy rad morons on drugs boasting who they think they are.

The works of Satan are in fact the issue at hand, they are under the influence of such, that's why they are so weak or become bully's that is the nature of the problem, one must rise above such delusions and that only truly comes about through Jesus Christ, because he is the Light, he exposes all darkness. so one in enlightened as to the gravity of the darkness that people are blinded too.
Mans nature is that of the beast, it is a human number 666 this represents one off from perfection that one may obtain, but you need 777 that represents perfection and Man can no reach 7 as that is of God.
So we see Socialist reject God 7 and they strive for such without God, but such is only mans works devoid of God, so that's when you understand where the Nazis were coming from, now Hitler never said where his Party direction would lead because he did not have an answer to such, well bingo ! no wonder because it was devoid of Jesus Christ and such is the same with Communism such is a utopia, it's truly a delusion like a drug that people are under the influence of.

Christ Jesus is the King of Israel = the Servants of God. bingo ! the lights are on !
Now people who are claiming that the Land that is claimed to be Israel nowadays are totally fooled buy such a delusion. because they are not truly born again. they are looking for Jesus to come, so they can not be truly born again, they lack him. and they put faith in mans works. oh look what we are doing with the State. this is the whore that Rothschild's created and his banking system buddy's that created all the Communist and Hitler's Nazis, they planed it all. they offered up the 6 million Jews and they call it a burnt offering to their god ?

 

[Prayer Warrior]

Not that I support this, but if governments would legalize pot instead of making people buy black market pot it would be MUCH safer! It's total government hypocrisy to allow booze and not weed, IMHO. I mean REALLY, people are dying all over the place from drugs! As usual, government is the problem!

The True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In
By Charlotte Cuthbertson
October 27, 2020 Updated: October 27, 2020

View From the ER
Two emergency room doctors in Pueblo see a different side of the equation and say the deleterious effects of cannabis legalization far outstrip any benefits.

Dr. Karen Randall, who trained in pediatrics and emergency medicine, spent years as an ER doctor in Detroit, but Pueblo turned out to be a whole other level.

“It’s like a horror movie,” she told The Epoch Times. Every shift in the ER brings in a patient with cannabinoid hyperemesis. In layman’s terms, that means someone is screaming and vomiting uncontrollably. The sound is wretched and apocalyptic. It’s caused by chronic cannabis use, usually high-potency products, and it stops when the person stops using cannabis.

Then there’s the psychosis.

“I was in Detroit for 18 years and the cannabis psychosis here is worse than anything I saw in Detroit,” Randall said. “They’re very violent. The combination of this high potency THC and meth just creates this incredibly violent person.”

THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the main psychoactive ingredient in today’s marijuana products, is now being extracted to reach a potency of more than 80 percent. In the 1990s, the average potency of a joint was around 4 percent THC.

Dr. Brad Roberts said he’s seeing more and more patients with psychosis who have no previous psychiatric history and are testing positive only for THC.

“There’s no PCP. There’s no amphetamines. There’s no alcohol. The only thing that comes up positive is cannabinoids. And they’ll admit that they did dabs right before it happened,” he said. “The ones I see that are true psychosis are teenagers—so 17, 18, 19.”

Dabs are a method of taking concentrated THC, usually through a vaping device or a glass rig. The concentrate is most commonly made by using butane to extract THC from the cannabis plant, and then it’s further processed to strip the butane out. Other forms of butane hash oil include waxes, shatters, and budders—which are similar, but have different textures.

Recently, a teenager “yelling incoherently” was brought into the ER with three police officers, five EMS personnel, and three security staff holding him down, Roberts said. The young man had been running along the middle of the street waving a metal rod at cars.

“I gave him 10 milligrams of intravenous Versed—after he had had 5 mg of Haldol, 50 mg of Benadryl, and 2 mg of Ativan [all sedatives]. And it hadn’t put him down. And he had been tased twice by the police,” Roberts said.

The teen later told Roberts he had been smoking concentrated cannabis waxes. Only cannabis showed up on his drug screen.

Roberts and Randall are trying to sound the warning bell on the negative effects marijuana legalization has had on their community and provide information that politicians might not be considering when faced with the legalization decision.

Since legalization in Colorado, Randall and Roberts have seen an increase in all drug use, not just marijuana. Methamphetamine use is up 143 percent, opiates are up by 10 percent, and cannabis is up by 57 percent, according to data from the ER drug screens over the past seven years.

“If you pump a community full of drugs, you’re going to have to expect everything that’s associated with them. You’re going to have to expect the crime, addiction,” Randall said.

“If you listen to what the industry says, we should be rolling in money because we’ve got about 50 dispensaries and we have over 100 legal grows. … And so if you think about just that number, this community should be thriving, we should be rolling in dough.

“And we’re not. We’re the canary in the coal mine. Our kids are failing, our kids are using drugs more. I can’t find health care for them. I can’t find rehab, I can’t find places to put the kids in foster care.”

The Healthy Kids Colorado survey for 2019 showed that 20.6 percent of high school children in Colorado had used marijuana in the previous 30 days.

“While smoking marijuana remained the most frequent method of use in 2019, smoking decreased as dabbing significantly increased as the second most common method of marijuana consumption among high school students,” the survey report stated. Vaping has also become more common.

The survey report concluded, “These are concerning trends since marijuana products associated with these methods of consumption often contain high concentrations of THC.”

Recently, two children younger than 14 ended up in the ER with Randall after each had ingested half of a candy bar that contained 500 mg of THC. Randall said the kids obtained the product from a buyer via Snapchat.

“We’re losing this generation,” she said. “What I see … is the kids either smoke themselves, or they become the parents’ caretaker, they take care of their parents who are smoking—using drugs and drinking. And I don’t know which is sadder—you have an 8 year old that’s giving you the medical history of the parent, or the kid’s using.”

Roberts said he believes the marijuana black market, prior to legalization, was a safer option, as the highly concentrated products now developed by chemists and botanists weren’t prevalent. “There is no part of this that is safer—it’s more frequently used, it’s higher potency use, and there are now all these different ways to use it,” he said.

In the ER, he asks his patients about smoking, drinking, and drug use, and said he’s “amazed” at how many people are smoking five or six joints a day. Or they’ll tell him, “‘I take a hit on the bong when I wake up, I usually go home for lunch and take a couple hits,'” he said.

“Almost 100 percent of the people that use, use daily.”

Both Roberts and Randall say at least one-third of what they see in the ER on a daily basis is solely related to drug issues.

Many patients don’t believe it when the doctors tell them it’s their marijuana that’s causing their hyperemesis or psychosis.

“They always say, ‘It’s not the cannabis. Pot is good for you,'” Randall said, “because it’s been portrayed as super benign—it’s healthy for you, it’s natural.”

Roberts said the last patient he told threw his papers on the floor and stormed out of the room.

Both have received threats, including death threats, for speaking out about the dangers of cannabis. They blame the strengthening cannabis industry lobby.

“They don’t want me to talk about the dangers of cannabis because they want everyone in the world to think it’s wonderful and thriving,” Randall said.

Pueblo City Mayor Nicholas Gradisar said his main concern with the Pueblo cannabis industry is minors using cannabis, which is more readily available now.

“Obviously, it’s illegal to sell or give marijuana to minors. Nobody thinks that’s a good idea,” he said. “There’s some people that shouldn’t use it, because they have that addictive personality—just like they shouldn’t use alcohol. And the high-potency THC, it’s sort of a dosing issue.”

He said the edible cannabis products now must include a dosing recommendation on the packaging. “Obviously you get people that think they know better and they don’t abide by that. But those are decisions that individuals make. Like I say, hopefully, those are adult individuals and not children.”

Source: The True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In

 

[FollowHim]

Years ago you had a few kids that had mental or behavioral problems and the same for young adult people. Mostly labelled as chemical imbalances. But I saw no behavioral health clinics or insurance. Now we have various types of bi-polar issues and high anxiety issues and learning disabilities and depression to the point of producing various chronic pain....fibromyalgia. Some of this maybe part of the difficulty with coping with life. What are your thoughts? Why are people having trouble coping with life?

I think what we have today is what happens when most people live a very long time. Literally a few generations ago it was a minority. You may make it to retirement and then 5 years and its all over. A lot of illnesses which killed people are now identifiable and treatable. A lot of people with serious complications are now living to an old age, and their ability to cope is being catered for. But with all this advance, conflicts in marriage now really need to be resolved, families have to start solving their differences or things break down. And when you make it through what then? Where is the security or purpose? What is the dream you can have, or is it just more of the same? Our utopia may actually be its biggest weakness, we need things to strive for, to reach up to, to achieve and feel valued.

Take a simple thing like Facebook. All those nice holidays, success at work, children and happy smiles. What happens when you feel your life is empty and nothing you do seems to bring this joy. What is the ideal, celebrity, measuring success and failure based on how many likes you get or friends you have. Value systems and ways of knowing your place or aspirations have evaporated. And when those closest to you walk away or were never there, what is life?

For me this is where Jesus comes in as our teacher and valuer. The poorest individual from the most difficult background can be the richest individual in love and grace you can imagine. It is the heart and the source of love that springs from it that is the light of life. How many grasp this or have sold out to modern consumer goods and false highs that never fulfil.

An area I grew up in is people grand standing to each other in a competition who is the best, who can put down another the quickest and show they are the top of the pile. Social gatherings become a parade of what so and so thinks of so and so, and are they in the right spot etc. The chattering classes, where nothing is real or substantive, just hurt feelings and appearing to be coping while crying on the inside. Life is just the lonely farce of trying not to be torn down by the world..... And so is the hell many live in, with no exit door they have ever found.

God bless you

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

All the weed I smoked was grown in the back yard. My friend and I had enough room for 16 plants all 6 foot high and trimmed so as not to peep over the fence at the neighbors. Naturally dried upside down in the shed, and cut up, packed on the kitchen table. I would then go to the local pub and dispose of bags at a price... My paranoia had nothing to do with fake lighting lol. But even when smoking alone on the beach, there was still that fear... Looking around wondering who was watching. Others would talk about the paranoia now and again, but in a manner that suggested they'd gotten over it. Not sure I believed them.

Sure my mate was like so looking out the window if a car rolled up and all, that's one paranoid thing, but their is another type of paranoid skitso mental stuff, and he also got into Speed and he would ring me up from Sydney talking total insane rubbish. but he always was a compulsive obsessive, so such people should never drink or take drugs because they lack self control. he does not take drugs anymore and he understands the gravity of all such things.
I never seen my mate selling the dope that he grew, as that was out in the bush. he lived in his parents basement one could say. he smoked it all himself and gave a lot away. he had no money. Sydney was another thing I was not there.

Boy dope plans that mate grew smell real nice and strong, if one was growing in a normal house yard I could smell such out directly even if it was 2 houses away.
My brother had one plant that just grew out of where he tossed his mowed grass, the trunk on this thing was huge but no real smell to it, just some low grade rubbish plant I would say, I said get rid of it.

 

[Prayer Warrior]

When we consider the right or wrong of marijuana use, I think we have to consider the facts about this drug. Several years ago, I was hearing the pros about legalizing it and was leaning in that direction...until I researched it. This article presents some facts to consider. (This is a very long article, so I'm not posting all of it. The video is very telling.)

Why Marijuana Legalization is a Very Bad Idea

By *Paula D. Gordon, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 12:22PM


Marijuana contributes to the opioid Crisis, growing homelessness, and societal unrest. It has long term harmful effects on the brain and body of adults, children, and future generations, as well as on the environment

...Marijuana should not have been allowed to be legalized by any state or U.S. jurisdiction and it should not be allowed to be further legalized if for no other reason than this: Marijuana with its active principle, (−)Δ9-trans-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is low to a high-level hallucinogenic drug with many harmful mental and physical effects, including idiosyncratic effects on mental health and mental functioning (Isbell et al., Psychopharmacologia, 1967).

Unlike the minimal or moderate use of alcohol and tobacco, the use of even a small amount of marijuana affects a person’s mental functioning in a variety of predictable and unpredictable ways. For example, it is known to have triggered psychoses and schizophrenia in normal individuals (Miller, 2018 and Miller, 2019). Because of the unpredictable effects of marijuana, no amount of regulation could ensure the “responsible” or “safe” use of this low to a high-level hallucinogen.

The impact that marijuana is having in the State of Colorado alone is apparent from the annual Rocky Mountain High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Reports (RMHDTA, 2018, 2019, and 2020) and from watching the Pueblo Physicians Code Red series of videos (2016). An excellent video to begin with, is a presentation by Dr. Karen Randall (

). The Code Red series of videos features emergency room doctors in Colorado who describe in graphic detail what has been going on there since marijuana was legalized there, including psychotic breaks, violent behavior, suicidal depression and acts of suicide, the cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (violent screaming and vomiting), and miscarriages. Below are reports of the harmful and costly impacts of marijuana legalization in those jurisdictions where it has been legalized....

There is also a set of extremely important research findings, the significance of which has only recently begun to be assimilated by researchers and acknowledged. This set of findings establish a definite connection between exposure to or use of marijuana and a predisposition to opioid use. The Surgeon General has alluded to this phenomenon as a “priming of the brain”. Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, has referred to it as a “sensitization of the brain”. This connection between exposure to or use of marijuana and a predisposition to opioid use helps explain why the increase in the number of users in states in the U.S. legalizing marijuana has mirrored the increase in the use of opioids and opioid overdose deaths. Understanding the implications of these research findings may well convince a majority of thoughtful individuals that not only is today’s marijuana a definite “gateway” drug to other drugs, but also that today’s marijuana with its vastly higher THC content than the marijuana of Woodstock days, can be a seen as “speedway drug” to marijuana dependence and addiction, polydrug use, and opioid use and addiction....

Read this entire article here: Why Marijuana Legalization is a Very Bad Idea

 

[Reggie Belafonte]

The True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In
By Charlotte Cuthbertson
October 27, 2020 Updated: October 27, 2020

View From the ER
Two emergency room doctors in Pueblo see a different side of the equation and say the deleterious effects of cannabis legalization far outstrip any benefits.

Dr. Karen Randall, who trained in pediatrics and emergency medicine, spent years as an ER doctor in Detroit, but Pueblo turned out to be a whole other level.

“It’s like a horror movie,” she told The Epoch Times. Every shift in the ER brings in a patient with cannabinoid hyperemesis. In layman’s terms, that means someone is screaming and vomiting uncontrollably. The sound is wretched and apocalyptic. It’s caused by chronic cannabis use, usually high-potency products, and it stops when the person stops using cannabis.

Then there’s the psychosis.

“I was in Detroit for 18 years and the cannabis psychosis here is worse than anything I saw in Detroit,” Randall said. “They’re very violent. The combination of this high potency THC and meth just creates this incredibly violent person.”

THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the main psychoactive ingredient in today’s marijuana products, is now being extracted to reach a potency of more than 80 percent. In the 1990s, the average potency of a joint was around 4 percent THC.

Dr. Brad Roberts said he’s seeing more and more patients with psychosis who have no previous psychiatric history and are testing positive only for THC.

“There’s no PCP. There’s no amphetamines. There’s no alcohol. The only thing that comes up positive is cannabinoids. And they’ll admit that they did dabs right before it happened,” he said. “The ones I see that are true psychosis are teenagers—so 17, 18, 19.”

Dabs are a method of taking concentrated THC, usually through a vaping device or a glass rig. The concentrate is most commonly made by using butane to extract THC from the cannabis plant, and then it’s further processed to strip the butane out. Other forms of butane hash oil include waxes, shatters, and budders—which are similar, but have different textures.

Recently, a teenager “yelling incoherently” was brought into the ER with three police officers, five EMS personnel, and three security staff holding him down, Roberts said. The young man had been running along the middle of the street waving a metal rod at cars.

“I gave him 10 milligrams of intravenous Versed—after he had had 5 mg of Haldol, 50 mg of Benadryl, and 2 mg of Ativan [all sedatives]. And it hadn’t put him down. And he had been tased twice by the police,” Roberts said.

The teen later told Roberts he had been smoking concentrated cannabis waxes. Only cannabis showed up on his drug screen.

Roberts and Randall are trying to sound the warning bell on the negative effects marijuana legalization has had on their community and provide information that politicians might not be considering when faced with the legalization decision.

Since legalization in Colorado, Randall and Roberts have seen an increase in all drug use, not just marijuana. Methamphetamine use is up 143 percent, opiates are up by 10 percent, and cannabis is up by 57 percent, according to data from the ER drug screens over the past seven years.

“If you pump a community full of drugs, you’re going to have to expect everything that’s associated with them. You’re going to have to expect the crime, addiction,” Randall said.

“If you listen to what the industry says, we should be rolling in money because we’ve got about 50 dispensaries and we have over 100 legal grows. … And so if you think about just that number, this community should be thriving, we should be rolling in dough.

“And we’re not. We’re the canary in the coal mine. Our kids are failing, our kids are using drugs more. I can’t find health care for them. I can’t find rehab, I can’t find places to put the kids in foster care.”

The Healthy Kids Colorado survey for 2019 showed that 20.6 percent of high school children in Colorado had used marijuana in the previous 30 days.

“While smoking marijuana remained the most frequent method of use in 2019, smoking decreased as dabbing significantly increased as the second most common method of marijuana consumption among high school students,” the survey report stated. Vaping has also become more common.

The survey report concluded, “These are concerning trends since marijuana products associated with these methods of consumption often contain high concentrations of THC.”

Recently, two children younger than 14 ended up in the ER with Randall after each had ingested half of a candy bar that contained 500 mg of THC. Randall said the kids obtained the product from a buyer via Snapchat.

“We’re losing this generation,” she said. “What I see … is the kids either smoke themselves, or they become the parents’ caretaker, they take care of their parents who are smoking—using drugs and drinking. And I don’t know which is sadder—you have an 8 year old that’s giving you the medical history of the parent, or the kid’s using.”

Roberts said he believes the marijuana black market, prior to legalization, was a safer option, as the highly concentrated products now developed by chemists and botanists weren’t prevalent. “There is no part of this that is safer—it’s more frequently used, it’s higher potency use, and there are now all these different ways to use it,” he said.

In the ER, he asks his patients about smoking, drinking, and drug use, and said he’s “amazed” at how many people are smoking five or six joints a day. Or they’ll tell him, “‘I take a hit on the bong when I wake up, I usually go home for lunch and take a couple hits,'” he said.

“Almost 100 percent of the people that use, use daily.”

Both Roberts and Randall say at least one-third of what they see in the ER on a daily basis is solely related to drug issues.

Many patients don’t believe it when the doctors tell them it’s their marijuana that’s causing their hyperemesis or psychosis.

“They always say, ‘It’s not the cannabis. Pot is good for you,'” Randall said, “because it’s been portrayed as super benign—it’s healthy for you, it’s natural.”

Roberts said the last patient he told threw his papers on the floor and stormed out of the room.

Both have received threats, including death threats, for speaking out about the dangers of cannabis. They blame the strengthening cannabis industry lobby.

“They don’t want me to talk about the dangers of cannabis because they want everyone in the world to think it’s wonderful and thriving,” Randall said.

Pueblo City Mayor Nicholas Gradisar said his main concern with the Pueblo cannabis industry is minors using cannabis, which is more readily available now.

“Obviously, it’s illegal to sell or give marijuana to minors. Nobody thinks that’s a good idea,” he said. “There’s some people that shouldn’t use it, because they have that addictive personality—just like they shouldn’t use alcohol. And the high-potency THC, it’s sort of a dosing issue.”

He said the edible cannabis products now must include a dosing recommendation on the packaging. “Obviously you get people that think they know better and they don’t abide by that. But those are decisions that individuals make. Like I say, hopefully, those are adult individuals and not children.”

Source: The True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In

I have never seen anyone smoking real dope being a problem, that mate of mine was the king of smoking dope, no one could smoke more than he could.
The new types of Dope are a real problem and the synthetic type is just stupid to do.
It's what people add to such and when one goes to hospital you will get the old line, oh he was smoking dope nonsense mushrooms and dope or something other and dope or it was laced by some moron.
When one is dealing with the moron element of drug dealers, then you get such morons beyond what you would ever believe as to what they will do to a product.
The criminal element has to be truly dealt with, because we are not winning the battle at all the way it's been controlled now, the Government has to licence and totally control the selling and making and win the people over to be smart about such drugs and that's the only way to destroy the criminal element and moron problem.

 

[Prayer Warrior]

I have never seen anyone smoking real dope being a problem

I have.

 

[Prayer Warrior]

I have been roundly castigated on this forum for daring to suggest that maybe neither political party has the answers and perhaps the current relationship between the church and the Republican party is not conducive to sound principles...

I hope you're not referring to my objection to your overgeneralizing. As far as I'm concerned, you can criticize the Republican Party all you want if you base your criticism on specific facts. My main criticism of the Democratic Party is based on immoral stances in their platform.

I appreciate your passion about the issues. I just don't think you always have your facts straight about American politics, so I find some of your criticism to be misguided.

 

[Grailhunter]

where nothing is real or substantive

This is why I am trying to focus on the real. From the numb-skull with a drop of water and the brainiac with two drops of water in the ocean of God's wisdom...we are people. In the Lord we are brothers and sisters. The real is what I am getting at. Christian knowledge and how do you apply it. Reasoning is a skill...a skill that can be taught...based on the morals of Christ. We are mere students to of that discipline. We make mistakes, the measure of a person's character and intelligence is what we learn from our mistakes and how we affect the lives of others.

 

[amigo de christo]

Ok, so you are for smoking pot.
Ok, then biblicaally is it right or is it wrong....?

No . not at all .
But the far more deadly and dangerous trap , lies with la madre negra de muerte y mintidas . SHE is deadly . SHE WILL kill a soul .

 

[Grailhunter]

madre negra de muerte y mintidas

???

 

[Grailhunter]

I have never seen anyone smoking real dope being a problem, that mate of mine was the king of smoking dope, no one could smoke more than he could.
The new types of Dope are a real problem and the synthetic type is just stupid to do.
It's what people add to such and when one goes to hospital you will get the old line, oh he was smoking dope nonsense mushrooms and dope or something other and dope or it was laced by some moron.
When one is dealing with the moron element of drug dealers, then you get such morons beyond what you would ever believe as to what they will do to a product.
The criminal element has to be truly dealt with, because we are not winning the battle at all the way it's been controlled now, the Government has to licence and totally control the selling and making and win the people over to be smart about such drugs and that's the only way to destroy the criminal element and moron problem.

So you are thinking it is a logical deduction....so how does that apply to the Bible? How does that apply to Christian beliefs?

 

[kcnalp]

The True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In
By Charlotte Cuthbertson
October 27, 2020 Updated: October 27, 2020

View From the ER
Two emergency room doctors in Pueblo see a different side of the equation and say the deleterious effects of cannabis legalization far outstrip any benefits.

Dr. Karen Randall, who trained in pediatrics and emergency medicine, spent years as an ER doctor in Detroit, but Pueblo turned out to be a whole other level.

“It’s like a horror movie,” she told The Epoch Times. Every shift in the ER brings in a patient with cannabinoid hyperemesis. In layman’s terms, that means someone is screaming and vomiting uncontrollably. The sound is wretched and apocalyptic. It’s caused by chronic cannabis use, usually high-potency products, and it stops when the person stops using cannabis.

Then there’s the psychosis.

“I was in Detroit for 18 years and the cannabis psychosis here is worse than anything I saw in Detroit,” Randall said. “They’re very violent. The combination of this high potency THC and meth just creates this incredibly violent person.”

THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the main psychoactive ingredient in today’s marijuana products, is now being extracted to reach a potency of more than 80 percent. In the 1990s, the average potency of a joint was around 4 percent THC.

Dr. Brad Roberts said he’s seeing more and more patients with psychosis who have no previous psychiatric history and are testing positive only for THC.

“There’s no PCP. There’s no amphetamines. There’s no alcohol. The only thing that comes up positive is cannabinoids. And they’ll admit that they did dabs right before it happened,” he said. “The ones I see that are true psychosis are teenagers—so 17, 18, 19.”

Dabs are a method of taking concentrated THC, usually through a vaping device or a glass rig. The concentrate is most commonly made by using butane to extract THC from the cannabis plant, and then it’s further processed to strip the butane out. Other forms of butane hash oil include waxes, shatters, and budders—which are similar, but have different textures.

Recently, a teenager “yelling incoherently” was brought into the ER with three police officers, five EMS personnel, and three security staff holding him down, Roberts said. The young man had been running along the middle of the street waving a metal rod at cars.

“I gave him 10 milligrams of intravenous Versed—after he had had 5 mg of Haldol, 50 mg of Benadryl, and 2 mg of Ativan [all sedatives]. And it hadn’t put him down. And he had been tased twice by the police,” Roberts said.

The teen later told Roberts he had been smoking concentrated cannabis waxes. Only cannabis showed up on his drug screen.

Roberts and Randall are trying to sound the warning bell on the negative effects marijuana legalization has had on their community and provide information that politicians might not be considering when faced with the legalization decision.

Since legalization in Colorado, Randall and Roberts have seen an increase in all drug use, not just marijuana. Methamphetamine use is up 143 percent, opiates are up by 10 percent, and cannabis is up by 57 percent, according to data from the ER drug screens over the past seven years.

“If you pump a community full of drugs, you’re going to have to expect everything that’s associated with them. You’re going to have to expect the crime, addiction,” Randall said.

“If you listen to what the industry says, we should be rolling in money because we’ve got about 50 dispensaries and we have over 100 legal grows. … And so if you think about just that number, this community should be thriving, we should be rolling in dough.

“And we’re not. We’re the canary in the coal mine. Our kids are failing, our kids are using drugs more. I can’t find health care for them. I can’t find rehab, I can’t find places to put the kids in foster care.”

The Healthy Kids Colorado survey for 2019 showed that 20.6 percent of high school children in Colorado had used marijuana in the previous 30 days.

“While smoking marijuana remained the most frequent method of use in 2019, smoking decreased as dabbing significantly increased as the second most common method of marijuana consumption among high school students,” the survey report stated. Vaping has also become more common.

The survey report concluded, “These are concerning trends since marijuana products associated with these methods of consumption often contain high concentrations of THC.”

Recently, two children younger than 14 ended up in the ER with Randall after each had ingested half of a candy bar that contained 500 mg of THC. Randall said the kids obtained the product from a buyer via Snapchat.

“We’re losing this generation,” she said. “What I see … is the kids either smoke themselves, or they become the parents’ caretaker, they take care of their parents who are smoking—using drugs and drinking. And I don’t know which is sadder—you have an 8 year old that’s giving you the medical history of the parent, or the kid’s using.”

Roberts said he believes the marijuana black market, prior to legalization, was a safer option, as the highly concentrated products now developed by chemists and botanists weren’t prevalent. “There is no part of this that is safer—it’s more frequently used, it’s higher potency use, and there are now all these different ways to use it,” he said.

In the ER, he asks his patients about smoking, drinking, and drug use, and said he’s “amazed” at how many people are smoking five or six joints a day. Or they’ll tell him, “‘I take a hit on the bong when I wake up, I usually go home for lunch and take a couple hits,'” he said.

“Almost 100 percent of the people that use, use daily.”

Both Roberts and Randall say at least one-third of what they see in the ER on a daily basis is solely related to drug issues.

Many patients don’t believe it when the doctors tell them it’s their marijuana that’s causing their hyperemesis or psychosis.

“They always say, ‘It’s not the cannabis. Pot is good for you,'” Randall said, “because it’s been portrayed as super benign—it’s healthy for you, it’s natural.”

Roberts said the last patient he told threw his papers on the floor and stormed out of the room.

Both have received threats, including death threats, for speaking out about the dangers of cannabis. They blame the strengthening cannabis industry lobby.

“They don’t want me to talk about the dangers of cannabis because they want everyone in the world to think it’s wonderful and thriving,” Randall said.

Pueblo City Mayor Nicholas Gradisar said his main concern with the Pueblo cannabis industry is minors using cannabis, which is more readily available now.

“Obviously, it’s illegal to sell or give marijuana to minors. Nobody thinks that’s a good idea,” he said. “There’s some people that shouldn’t use it, because they have that addictive personality—just like they shouldn’t use alcohol. And the high-potency THC, it’s sort of a dosing issue.”

He said the edible cannabis products now must include a dosing recommendation on the packaging. “Obviously you get people that think they know better and they don’t abide by that. But those are decisions that individuals make. Like I say, hopefully, those are adult individuals and not children.”

Source: The True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In

Maybe the weed today is much more harmful? That's why legalization would be MUCH safer, better quality!

 

[Prayer Warrior]

This is why I am trying to focus on the real.

Read the articles about what's happening in Colorado after legalizing pot. A lot of really sad stories!

 

[amigo de christo]

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Thank you for asking . She has another name . brace yourself . The holy mother roman catholic church .
IF you know of anyone near her , You must do all you can , OUT OF DIRE LOVE for them to convince them to come out of her .
We must do everything out of love for the peoples . ALWAYS remember that .

 

[Prayer Warrior]

Maybe the weed today is much more harmful? That's why legalization would be MUCH safer, better quality!

Kind of sounds like "safe, legal" abortions.

Some things are just bad for us, period. Why do any Christians want to take mind-bending drugs? What's the point?

The second article I posted addresses some of the reasons pot is more dangerous than alcohol--even in small amounts. I think we need to heed the warnings that the medical profession is putting out there. They are the frontline workers who see the REAL detrimental effects of this drug on people and on society.

 

[Grailhunter]

When we consider the right or wrong of marijuana use, I think we have to consider the facts about this drug. Several years ago, I was hearing the pros about legalizing it and was leaning in that direction...until I researched it. This article presents some facts to consider. (This is a very long article, so I'm not posting all of it. The video is very telling.)

Why Marijuana Legalization is a Very Bad Idea

By *Paula D. Gordon, Ph.D.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 12:22PM


Marijuana contributes to the opioid Crisis, growing homelessness, and societal unrest. It has long term harmful effects on the brain and body of adults, children, and future generations, as well as on the environment

...Marijuana should not have been allowed to be legalized by any state or U.S. jurisdiction and it should not be allowed to be further legalized if for no other reason than this: Marijuana with its active principle, (−)Δ9-trans-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), is low to a high-level hallucinogenic drug with many harmful mental and physical effects, including idiosyncratic effects on mental health and mental functioning (Isbell et al., Psychopharmacologia, 1967).

Unlike the minimal or moderate use of alcohol and tobacco, the use of even a small amount of marijuana affects a person’s mental functioning in a variety of predictable and unpredictable ways. For example, it is known to have triggered psychoses and schizophrenia in normal individuals (Miller, 2018 and Miller, 2019). Because of the unpredictable effects of marijuana, no amount of regulation could ensure the “responsible” or “safe” use of this low to a high-level hallucinogen.

The impact that marijuana is having in the State of Colorado alone is apparent from the annual Rocky Mountain High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Reports (RMHDTA, 2018, 2019, and 2020) and from watching the Pueblo Physicians Code Red series of videos (2016). An excellent video to begin with, is a presentation by Dr. Karen Randall (

). The Code Red series of videos features emergency room doctors in Colorado who describe in graphic detail what has been going on there since marijuana was legalized there, including psychotic breaks, violent behavior, suicidal depression and acts of suicide, the cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (violent screaming and vomiting), and miscarriages. Below are reports of the harmful and costly impacts of marijuana legalization in those jurisdictions where it has been legalized....

There is also a set of extremely important research findings, the significance of which has only recently begun to be assimilated by researchers and acknowledged. This set of findings establish a definite connection between exposure to or use of marijuana and a predisposition to opioid use. The Surgeon General has alluded to this phenomenon as a “priming of the brain”. Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, has referred to it as a “sensitization of the brain”. This connection between exposure to or use of marijuana and a predisposition to opioid use helps explain why the increase in the number of users in states in the U.S. legalizing marijuana has mirrored the increase in the use of opioids and opioid overdose deaths. Understanding the implications of these research findings may well convince a majority of thoughtful individuals that not only is today’s marijuana a definite “gateway” drug to other drugs, but also that today’s marijuana with its vastly higher THC content than the marijuana of Woodstock days, can be a seen as “speedway drug” to marijuana dependence and addiction, polydrug use, and opioid use and addiction....

Read this entire article here: Why Marijuana Legalization is a Very Bad Idea

Yes I have looked at the affects on the brain as an organ and the mind. An I know I can tell if a person has used pot for a long time even if they are not on it at the time or have not been on it for a long time. And also most that have become addicted to harder drugs, started out with Pot. All that is true. Then you have the naturalist that study what to eat and what medications not to take but see pot as a natural high. Strangely a lot of drugs are natural. And I am interested in hearing from those that use it, what kind of lifestyle it produces.

 

[Prayer Warrior]

Then you have the naturalist that study what to eat and what medications not to take but see pot as a natural high. Strangely a lot of drugs are natural.

Hemlock is a natural poison. DON'T TAKE IT!!!

 

[Grailhunter]

Thank you for asking . She has another name . brace yourself . The holy mother roman catholic church .
IF you know of anyone near her , You must do all you can , OUT OF DIRE LOVE for them to convince them to come out of her .
We must do everything out of love for the peoples . ALWAYS remember that .

I understand the prejudice of Catholics....it has a long history. The "church of ones" do not even like Protestant denominations much. But we are Christians....you will get no traction with me on this because I am multi-denominational. I love Christians and worship and fellowship with many differing beliefs.