Studies....
We dont understand all the mechanisms of cannabinoids. Fact.
We dont even closely understand a single mechanism of the human brain. Fact.
This is where studies and I part ways.
I have never seen someone smoke weed and lose their mind. I have seen thousands smoke weed countless times for years. I have seen people lose their minds a few times who never touched drugs of any kind.
Yet I work in mental health hospitals and have seen it contribute to psychosis in many, many people. This is the thing here, couch thinks I am against cannabis completely.... I'm not. Some people benefit from it's calming effects absolutely, but for some people like yourself who it makes want to curl up and die.... What do you imagine happens to people who are vulnerable to it's effects and continue to smoke it? what would happen to you if you continued to smoke it.... As for studies being bullshit.... absolutely some of them are.... some of them really aren't.
I believe in experience and odds.
Steroids have not been proven to kill anyone only suspected. That said I will die of a heart attack at 50-60 most likely. Steroids and the way I abuse them will be a contrubuting factor.
My point is... If the smoke fits, wear it.
Studies based on inconclusive evidence to find a suspected possible correlation to something not understood.
I think I will choose what I have witnessed.
Since we are going purely on what we have witnessed.....Have you witnessed more people with mental illness than me? Highly doubt it. This is why going only on what we witness is ignorant.... because we disregard what others have witnessed or what others have experienced.
Have you seen what cannabis can do to people in their formative years? Anti depressants are another drug..... They help save peoples lives..... they nearly killed me. What you need to understand is that some drugs are cures to people, to others they are poison. For those who benefit from smoking cannabis and the calming effects, I am not against it at all. What I am against is people who smoke it who are ignorant to it's potential consequences to people who have a susceptibility to it.
Hell even Atenolol, a beta blocker, who's primary function is to block adrenaline can cause people to actually have severe tachycardia in some people. That same drug.... one of the side effects listed by it's creator (who would probably not prefer to list it's side effects) is depression.... a mental illness. Yet you are saying that a psychoactive substance like cannabis.... which makes you want to curl up and die.....cannot engender mental illness in anyone? I mean mushrooms etc can make you hallucinate.... have a psychotic experience.... have a susceptibility to mental illness and do it enough.... what do you thinks going to happen? the mental illness will happen. Have a susceptibility to heart problems and do steroids enough.... whats likely going to happen? I've lost brothers on these forums to this exact thing..... people know that there are potential risks with steroids... but make informed decisions and personal choices to continue using them. Yet this magic, cherished psychoactive plant that grows in the ground does no harm?
As GH recently pointed out in people fears of the mercury content in tuna... Sillenium is the antidote.
The highest concentrations of sillenium are found in....
Once we seperate chemicals to form a study we botch the entire study.
My Dr. Pepper has many poisons if concentrated and drank in pure form. I wont be doing that though. I like all 23 flavors up in this biotch!