Cannabis causes psychosis. Psychosis causes violence.
Substack,
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Alex Berenson
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
5/26/2022 8:26:57 AM
Yep, there it is, the first reference to cannabis use by Salvador Ramos, the Texas elementary school killer. In the New York Times.
Took 24 hours, give or take.
And Ms. Rodriguez recalled he would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.
This is only one case. Except it’s not.
Nikolas Cruz, the Florida high school shooter, was a heavy user and told the police detective who interviewed him that he heard voices. Devin Patrick Kelley - who shot up a Texas church and killed 26 people in 2017
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 5/26/2022 8:35:43 AM (No. 1166545)
This information has been around for years. But because the left likes weed…
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Gnana1 5/26/2022 8:45:20 AM (No. 1166556)
Not just the left that likes weed. An honest survey would show the so called right and even those who profess to be believers will use weed.
I agree with the article. However, there is something that is being left out...the parent, and grandparents of Ramos are major drug users and dealers. Check their criminal backgrounds...all of them. He is a product of his family life. Unfortunately.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/26/2022 8:46:35 AM (No. 1166558)
Marijuana definitely does cause psychosis in some people. I had a high school friend who succumbed to it, and forever ruined his life, as he sank into psychosis and could not recover. It also affected another friend, and ruined his life, as he never was successfully employed after using it, that becoming his mission, rather than positive goals. I do not support marijuana legalization. If you think marijuana is medicinal, get a doctor to prescribe it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
901AtTheRiver 5/26/2022 9:12:58 AM (No. 1166580)
SSRI drugs are fed in massive quantities to the psychologically vulnerable in this country. Who is tracing and correlating consequences?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/26/2022 9:22:45 AM (No. 1166590)
I see too many kids under the influence of weed in school. It’s a major problem. Every one of the students who use are low-achievers and failing. I see how they are in classes. It’s bad stuff, really bad.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
sw penn 5/26/2022 9:24:45 AM (No. 1166591)
Chicken or egg?
Rush used to say crazies eat peas as well...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
IowaDad 5/26/2022 9:29:06 AM (No. 1166596)
From the very fragmentary evidence we have, it is clear that Salvador Ramos was a psychopath, a common psychiatric disorder manifested be a reduced capacity to feel empathy for others. And why is the evidence fragmentary? Because his psychiatric, criminal and school records are purposely hidden from our view. And why is that? Because these records show that his psychiatrists, the criminal justice system and the school administration repeatedly failed to manage his disorder at every level.
Why is this concept never discussed by politicians or by the media? Let's have Beto ask about it!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
red1066 5/26/2022 9:34:00 AM (No. 1166603)
I'll also add that the mind of an 18-year-old is going in ten different directions at once all the time to begin with. The brain is not fully developed yet. Add in a heavy dose of hormones and almost anything can set an 18-year-old off. It's why the thinking and reasoning skills of someone that age is so screwed up some of the time. It also makes for a perfect military recruit. Since their minds can be molded quickly.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 5/26/2022 9:40:17 AM (No. 1166610)
I will forever curse the unknown who convinced my oldest son that Marijuana was 'harmless' and it was okay to use. Long story short, one thing led to another to narcotics and eventually his death at a young age.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 5/26/2022 9:46:05 AM (No. 1166617)
A deep,y insightful comment from a teenager fron the 1970s…..DUH!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 5/26/2022 9:50:54 AM (No. 1166625)
More gun laws! Guns cause these mass shootings! Think of the children!
More cannabis laws! Weed causes these shootings! Think of the children!
Depending on which side you take more laws and restrictions probably won't put an end to mental illness. Let face it - killing someone with no remorse is far from normal behavior. Whether you use a gun, hammer or SUV. Taking multiple lives is beyond most of our abilities to comprehend such madness. A broken mind is hard to mend. You sometimes just can't stop evil with a law. Maybe slow it down but evil and despair is not attributable to solitary triggers.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Cindiana 5/26/2022 9:51:04 AM (No. 1166626)
How many others live the draining daily agony that you do, #9. There must be millions. That doesn't change or ameliorate your personal pain in even the slightest way, of course. This drug curse is something so pervasive, crossing all social and economic lines. My step-family lived a similar horror, so I have a slight sense of the precious time and resources they devoted to trying to help their son....to no good result.
I am so sorry for your loss. When your precious baby was born, you could never have imagined this nightmare.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Miss Lamb Chop 5/26/2022 10:11:14 AM (No. 1166656)
I wonder if he took Ritalen? The news media did mention this in every mass shooting up until the Oregon shooting. Every single shooter was taking Ritalen or another drug of this type. These kids do not learn to deal with anger issues as children then when the hormones kick in, we see this.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/26/2022 10:15:11 AM (No. 1166667)
Tobacco and alcohol have been used by human culture for millennia. And their ill effects have been deemed to be controllable and acceptable for 'quality' of life enhancement. (You might disagree with the term but there it is). Drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroin are in a different category. I suppose that is why the counterculture took to them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 5/26/2022 10:15:21 AM (No. 1166668)
Pot is medicine? Who has it CURED?
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Marijuana strains have been systematically, intentionally genetically modified to be as strong and hallucinogenic as possible. As is always the case with intoxicants, a tolerance is built up requiring stronger and more frequent doses. But the brain is finite and its chemistry can only take so much abuse. What is lost today is lost forever, especially in terms of physical changes.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Edgelady 5/26/2022 10:18:53 AM (No. 1166673)
It's not the same weed as in the '60's and '70's. People may think they're fine and they can function fine, but they're certainly not as good as they can be.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LadyVet 5/26/2022 10:25:38 AM (No. 1166682)
Synthetic marijuana is quite common and I have heard an "expert witness" testify that it produces more violence than regular mj.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 5/26/2022 11:07:57 AM (No. 1166749)
A relative by marriage was a heavy marijuana user as a teen. She was diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder in her 20s. She's now in her 60s, and despite lots of prescription medications, her entire adult life has been a train wreck for her and her four children (by four different men) as well.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mre 5/26/2022 11:10:04 AM (No. 1166752)
Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter cause more psychosis than marijuana does.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
jacksin5 5/26/2022 11:11:51 AM (No. 1166756)
The psychosis came first. It has been well known in the mental health field that a number of street drugs and legal substances as well. can exacerbate or mimic mental illness.
As a recovering alcoholic. I used alcohol for years to "Treat" my underlying depression. This shooter's mental state was out there for all to see and no one bothered to intervene. Why? Because it's cheaper to dispense pills, than to re-open Mental Institutions.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Anti_democRAT 5/26/2022 11:16:38 AM (No. 1166768)
I know quite a few that todays strength of canabis has made insane. I also have several family members including 1 dead brother that i have know doubt went insane from dope. In the old days they called it getting stupid, today they ought to call it getting insane.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
columba 5/26/2022 11:16:57 AM (No. 1166770)
The idea that weed is harmless is a untrue as the idea that homosexual men are harmless.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 5/26/2022 11:21:23 AM (No. 1166774)
Sad for the weak minds that want to use intoxicants to change their reality. As a teen and young college student I tried alcohol many times, because of social pressures. I never liked what it did to me, during the drinking and after the drinking. I never tried any drugs, frankly terrified of the mind problems that they can cause, just like this report states.
For me, zero intoxicants has been how I have enjoyed my long life. I don't try to preach to others, but I have seen huge amounts of harm from alcohol and "safe" drugs like marijuana. I've fortunately never been around any of the harder drugs, always choose my friends more carefully than that.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
formerNYer 5/26/2022 12:23:23 PM (No. 1166831)
BS - If it was so place with legal pot would have violent crimes going through the roof and they don't.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
GlueHorse 5/26/2022 1:09:09 PM (No. 1166873)
Reefer Madness.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 5/26/2022 1:50:13 PM (No. 1166916)
Yes, there are cannabis users who are hooked and think they are cured - nuts with guns, knives, and the need to kill. Sorry, but drug addicted women should consider birth control.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/26/2022 2:07:54 PM (No. 1166927)
Oh, heck, #26, you beat me to it. I came of age in the 60s and well remember going to see that movie and laughing at it. Now I know better.
I knew a guy in college who smoked his first joint before he got out of bed in the morning. Lost touch with him until around 1998. He never married, never had any kind of career, drifted from one minimum wage job to the next and was still smoking it 25 years later. He never became violent but was too stoned to do much of anything in life. No doubt, there are a few million just like him.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
3XALADY 5/26/2022 3:47:35 PM (No. 1167000)
When you add gaming to this kid's messed up mind, things like this happen. Article above says he was gaming, lost and told the other participants he was going to 'shoot up a school.' She passed info to FBI but nothing happened.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 5/26/2022 9:07:24 PM (No. 1167226)
THC levels on today's weed is off the chart. Check out the study done on Colorado and it should come as no surprise. But hey, it's medicine, right?
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
judy 5/27/2022 4:52:55 AM (No. 1167327)
Typical libs...tobacco bad... weed good, death penalty bad ..abortion good, jet fuel good... suv fuel bad...
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/27/2022 7:06:21 AM (No. 1167389)
But, but, Barack Obama thought it fine to legalize marijuana. . .
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 5/27/2022 7:07:46 AM (No. 1167390)
Clinton, Bushes, Obamas - tell me once again how good they were for America. I won't be listening.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 5/27/2022 10:52:18 AM (No. 1167607)
Starting around the 70s, a person could score some of that "SuperDuperKillerBombOneTokeTrip weed. That was the end of my desire for the stuff. One could only guess what was in it....If one could remember what he was trying to guess...
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Berenson literally wrote the book on this -- "Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence." In the article he also mentions the huge increase in violent crime after marijuana was legalized in various places.