Medical marijuana tries to bypass discussion of the mental health risks. Marijuana is linked to long-term psychiatric problems such as schizophrenia, anxiety and psychosis. There is mounting research to suggest that youth usage of marijuana greatly increases the chance for both depression and suicide, as recently reported in the The Lancet Psychiatry Journal. The PTSD … Continue reading The Medical Marijuana Hoax, Part 2: Mental Health
Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 by Anonymous. Permission required to reprint. Everyone young and old gravitated to my son….always. For a young man who was such a happy-go-lucky personality, so charismatic, death came shockingly, seven months after the second psychiatric hospital in Pasadena had dumped him. After 34 months, just recently I finished … Continue reading The Unraveling of Ryan, Part 4: The Role of Pot
(Read Part 1 and Part 2. Permission required for reprinting) After Ryan’s death, I remembered reading many years ago in a magazine about Margaret Trudeau, then wife of the Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. She was in her 20s, partied with socialites, and also suffered psychotic breaks. Each time she referenced her use of marijuana … Continue reading The Unraveling, Part 3: Temporary Mental Instability vs Bipolar I
(Part 2 of 4, an anonymous testimony submitted by a reader. Part 1) For a person who had never shown the slightest mental instability and then goes into an altered reality—literally overnight–disregarding a drug classified as “hallucinogenic” as a trigger is outrageous. Mental health treatments fail when the root cause(s) are ignored. The culprit was … Continue reading The Unraveling, Part 2: Denial, Denial, Even as Dog has Seizure
