Marijuana mental health and safety risks ignored by media

[truthseeker]

While Americans of all ages in Colorado happily celebrate the legalization of marijuana in various forms on April 20, 2014 as a “smoking holiday” the mental health and safety risks are being ignored by the media.

Mental health dangers and marijuana use
As the national media spent a lot of time hyping the legislation passed in Colorado it spent little time in talking about recent studies that indicate pot damages the developing brain and may be one reason for the increase of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in the aging population, particularly those using it while in college. Scientific research continues to connect even casual marijuana use with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia.

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http://www.examiner.com/article/marijuana-mental-health-and-safety-risks-ignored-by-media

 

[marvin martian]

The media? They're way too high to focus on that story...

 

[Boltlady]

While Americans of all ages in Colorado happily celebrate the legalization of marijuana in various forms on April 20, 2014 as a “smoking holiday” the mental health and safety risks are being ignored by the media.

Mental health dangers and marijuana use
As the national media spent a lot of time hyping the legislation passed in Colorado it spent little time in talking about recent studies that indicate pot damages the developing brain and may be one reason for the increase of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in the aging population, particularly those using it while in college. Scientific research continues to connect even casual marijuana use with severe mental illness such as schizophrenia.

Read more
http://www.examiner.com/article/marijuana-mental-health-and-safety-risks-ignored-by-media

Propaganda, because the benefits that are derived from marijuana are going to cost some big corporations a lot of money as it becomes more readily available.

Back in the '70's I smoked it a number of times and knew people who smoked a lot of it. No long term effects. In fact, I had a cat at the time that loved the stuff.

For a while I shared an apartment with a young couple and we tended to smoke from time to time. My cat was 3 years old at the time and when we would smoke some we would put the cat in a ditty bag, zip it up after blowing some smoke in it and leave her for just a minute or so. She would be rather unstable when she came out but she did love it. Any time she would smell some she would come running.

15 years is about the lifespan of a cat. That cat lived to be 23 years old. She was not feeble minded at all in her old age the way I've seen some other cats get. Marijuana did not hurt her a bit.