Well, I grew up in late 60's-early 70s ("Jimi Hendrix" generation) and my attitudes have changed regarding many things, but some not so much. I enjoyed medicating my mind with cannabis from those early times ('68-'69) until drug testing forced itself into my world (Refining industry) and from 1989 until my retirement in 2021 I stayed sober.
I "stayed sober" because I have no affinity for alcohol, and feel it may be one of the most misunderstood and harmful drugs for both individuals and society. I also have no desire to complicate/ruin my life with addicting ("hard") drugs. I suppose I have to consider myself fortunate that alcohol doesn't agree with me.
I've known two people that have been through both heroin and alcohol addiction. Both people state basically the same thing, that "they would prefer to kick (quit their addiction) heroin twice than alcohol once".
So, I guess my position is, why the hit piece on cannabis dangers, when society pretty much acknowledges so many obvious problems with the widely used, advertised, and advocated alcohol? I'm gonna state that the issues are so well known, I don't have to point them out.
I've found myself in discussions with people who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that alcohol is even a drug. That position shows a very low level of comprehension of not only their drug of choice, but also essential critical thinking skills.
I'm not trying to make a statement glorifying any recreational drug, their purpose is typically not to enhance one's physical health, but to relax and restore one's state-of-mind. I just feel they need to be evaluated on a level playing field, with some appearance on objectivity.
Hi Edwin! Good article. Another “suber”-did article on medication and side effects from ChatGPT. It was very interesting. The millennials
are taking the pill market over, in my opinion.
They have had negative side effects from their parents and teachers and peers all of their lives about marijuana. Why would they want to smoke?
I do use medical cannabis. I am allergic to opioids and steroids and anti inflammatory medications.
I had my left knee replacement in June, all I used was medical cannabis. I got out of the hospital within 12 hours and it’s Dec? Wow, and I am healed on outside, it takes typically a year to heal from replacement surgery. I am fine, I healed 2x faster than someone taking opioids. Imagine that?!?!😊 The doctors said it was better, I am not hurting my heart, kidneys or liver…🧐🤨why do they prescribe opioids if they know this??????? The millennial PA asked me if I wanted oxycodone for the pain, I said Megan, I am allergic, do you want me to wind up in anaphylactic shock?!?!
Btw, that anaphylactic shock, happens to many people. I found out I was allergic after a major kidney surgery I had. The doctor gave me morphine for the pain. I woke up from surgery and went into shock within 5 minutes after surgery. That sucks!
A lot of young kids and millennials go to this specific dispensary, I go to, I see many age groups and parents bringing their children with them.
I think the decline comes from legalization and millennials don’t have a taste for the “product.” The millennials like their “pills”. I know many young people, 30’s, 20’s that don’t smoke or drink BUT they take pills. Adderall, opioids, etc.
Which is worse, but kids and pills always go together, right? I have seen several overdoses in my life, I thought I would never see, my cousin for one example.
This is my 7th replacement surgery! lol. The freakin’ doctors didn’t know I have hypermobile joints. They call it a syndrome, I was born this way, it’s a genetic thing, like being allergic to opioids. My biological mother,(I was adopted), is allergic to opioids.
There is so much messed up with the medical profession, I always wanted to be a doctor, but I see all the crap they take and the crap they take from their patients…lol, (someone like me, that researches to death), it hurts their profession. Oh well, WE ALL NEED THE TRUTH and need to know what is going into our bodies, right? (Just like the vax…)
To me anything that alters your perception of reality is suspect. When I was about 21 I finally tried it TWICE. The first time was with my future to be wife at a friends. I found myself doing the limbo under a coffee table listening to Rush music. The other time I was coming home and thought I was going to crash into a wall by my residence because I was going way too fast as I came to it and then looked down at the speedometer and saw I was going 5 MPH. That was enough for me and I'm now 70. Twice.. who really needs it? Keep the temple clean and a lot of the crap folks get won't be there. Look at G. Edward Griffin, he's like 96 and still sharp as a tack. He doesn't do anything that disrupts the normal body process. Me? I am addicted to carbs and sugar and suffer from diabetes because I simply can't kick the habit. Sometimes I wonder which is worse, thinking I'm driving 90 mph when I'm only going 5 or waking up with neuropathy and other ailments caused by too much glucose in the blood. Getting old sucks.
Marijuana is something to be avoided, if you treasure your brain. Over 50 years ago I tried it several times...but thought that I really didn't need it. I wasn't into alcohol either. Several years ago, I had a problem sleeping and my daughter read that an oil with THC in it might help me sleep. I bought some and used it for perhaps a week. However, it didn't help me sleep. However, I noticed it affected my memory in that short time. I started forgetting where I put things. It affected my mind. So, I totally stopped using it. I resolved my sleep issues by changing my sleep pattern...getting up earlier and exercising daily.. By early evening, I was ready to sleep.
Before anyone reading this puts Cannabis in the category of a dangerous drug/narcotic, I highly advise you to do more research on the plant as to why it was categorized as a dangerous drug as well as do extensive research on the Endocannabinoid system in the body of every human being and the importance of that system for complete homeostasis of every other organ system in the body including the therapeutic compounds in Cannabis (CBD, THC, CBG, CBGA, etc). Having owned a medical clinic for twenty-four years, I have seen people's lives completely turn around with Cannabis therapy. I also highly recommend reading two books, "Nature's Answer to Cancer" by Rick Simpson/Rick Simpson Oil and Bonni Goldstein M.D. book, "Cannabis is Medicine." Just an FYI, the Rockefeller family spent millions of dollars back in the 1930s stigmatizing the dangers of Cannabis because they could not get a patent on Cannabis because it is a plant and they knew the therapeutic benefits of it; in other words, if they couldn't control it, no one could have access it to it. Big Pharma does not want you to access Cannabis; it is a joke that it is a Schedule I narcotic, according to the DEA. No one has ever overdosed on Cannabis, and it has many health benefits. This comes from someone who has been in the medical field most of my life and is devoted to faith in the Lord.
The very knowledge you reveal has been covered up for generations, it, like all drugs of abuse can be abused, but the differences ic can make individually can be earth shattering.
A young male neighbor of mine smokes weed. He episodically suffers from severe bouts of coughing. I approached him the other day with some (sugar free) Ricola cough suppressants, and conveyed how helpful they've been to me (a non-smoker) on occasion. You'd think he might bake his grass into some cookies or brownies instead.
People are dumb. Most don't wake up until they're coughing-up blood, and then think: "Gee, maybe I'm doing something wrong, here."
Marijuana suppresses impetus, motivation and drive. I've never met a friend or client whose regular use of Marijuana wasn't deleterious to their life... even if they only used it to get to sleep at night. Diphenhydramine is a much better, non-habit forming option, if ya have trouble shutting down your obsessive-compulsive thinking.
My clinical experience has revealed that people with ADHD symptoms (not ADD) have used Marijuana since they were teens. It apparently helps the hyperactive mind to slow a bit, in order to function better, and stay on task with a project.
Still, the routine use of it has far reaching consequences~ and just like any other addiction, aids in and perpetuates dissociation from one's emotions, which is the sole ROOT of personality disorder traits.
I feel so safe on my drive to Charlotte at 6 AM with traffic jamming all around and nuts driving like nuts and then the smell of pot. Driving stoned at 6AM on the way to work.
Having a Father who raised 4 boys was pretty strict. Dad, being a Pharmacist made it harder. Out of the neighborhood kids, we were the Only one's who were Never arrested for Anything. Dad made us 4 a promise, we would regret the day we were born if we ever messed with drugs....Dad Loved us enough to take whatever measures needed to keep us on the straight and narrow. Pot from the early 1970's, it took a joint or two to get the High that one "toke" of high grade pot gets you today. Today pot has expanded to give you very specific highs or relief from many common ailments. But if I were a Stoner today I would grow my own just to be sure I knew what I was getting. Fentenyl boosting of Pot scares the Hell out of me. It might not be the grower, but on down the line, a dealer may spike his Product with Fentenyl or anything else. Pot definitely has it's medical uses, how Pot helps Parkinsons Patients is nothing short of miraculous and should be studied further. Once Vivake and Elon get done drowning Swamp Rats and get rid of Entrenched Bureaucrats, we can look forward to Real and Progress helpful to All People!
I challenge anybody who has witnessed an alcoholic experiencing the psychosis known as "DT's" during withdrawal (yes, withdrawal from ADDICTION!) to come away from that still maintaining their beliefs alcohol is not a dangerous drug. Or, that it even is a drug, in some cases.
Consuming large quantities of alcohol for extended periods of time just 'cause the gubmint advocates it (practically) and the manufacturers endorse it's safety sounds eerily similar to following orders from the "jab assassins" to vax, vax, and then vax some more.....
Putting aside our own moral beliefs about marijuana that say "right" or "wrong" I'd just like to point out the "expert" sources the writer cites as evidence for the argument he is presenting: WebMD.
WebMD tells you masks work and are safe, children need vaccines - ALL of them, everybody should get annual flu shots. That tells you Covid vaccines saved lives, and there's no correlation between them and excess deaths from myoocarditis, clots, turbo cancers, especially in young people never at risk before the shots. The WebMD that tells you what the drug-pushing doctors tell you about prescription drug risk, understating risk. The same WebMD that tells you natural immunity is a "New Age belief system." The same WebMD that says sometimes God makes a mistake and puts a little boy in a little girl's body and doctors can fix God's mistakes. The same WebMD that tells you natural medicines, including herbal, homeopathic, ayurvedic, naturopathic, holistic, TCM and other non-allopathic healing modalities are ineffective, often unsafe, and only promoted by "quack" con artists to desperate and uneducated people. The same WebMD that told you water fluoridation is safe and effective. The same WebMD that says readers of this Substack page are conspiracy theorists and dumb people about most every single topic this Substack shares.
But they got the marijuana story and studies right.
How much credibility you give their studies and the story depends on what your own moral beliefs say about marijuana, if using it is "right" or "wrong." Information presented as lots of opinion citing a single source that has demonstrated its commitment to truth in the examples cited above makes it pure opinion and agenda, just like the examples above. An agenda piece masquerading as an authoritative deliberative examination of the subject..
Recreational drugs are not good. Whether it is pot, cocaine, heroin, or alcohol, they all have their bad points. In the case of pot, it does have some useful medical benefits. In a "free" country, we should have the right, without government interference, to partake. That doesn't mean it's right or healthy. If government could effectively tax it and if Big Pharma could earn profits off it, pot would be legal. Personally, I don't indulge in recreational drugs of any sort. Experience taught me they really of no benefit.
Todays MMJ is not the same as it was in my late teens, It is stronger, and apt to be laced with something more harmful. I personally don't think any of them are 'safe'. Now it is grown commercially for prescription sale, are there consistent regulations? Sold and with a big Tax on it. People still have the issue they use it while Driving, risking others lives. It is still FEDERALLY ILLEGAL.
Who is anyone to take away another’s consequences?
Legalize everything.
If one cannot develop one’s own accountability and responsibility who does it get transferred to? Religion? Government? Who?
Time for adults to figure their shit out and minus discipline, self criticism and awareness pain is a great teacher.
Hmmm.....
Well, I grew up in late 60's-early 70s ("Jimi Hendrix" generation) and my attitudes have changed regarding many things, but some not so much. I enjoyed medicating my mind with cannabis from those early times ('68-'69) until drug testing forced itself into my world (Refining industry) and from 1989 until my retirement in 2021 I stayed sober.
I "stayed sober" because I have no affinity for alcohol, and feel it may be one of the most misunderstood and harmful drugs for both individuals and society. I also have no desire to complicate/ruin my life with addicting ("hard") drugs. I suppose I have to consider myself fortunate that alcohol doesn't agree with me.
I've known two people that have been through both heroin and alcohol addiction. Both people state basically the same thing, that "they would prefer to kick (quit their addiction) heroin twice than alcohol once".
So, I guess my position is, why the hit piece on cannabis dangers, when society pretty much acknowledges so many obvious problems with the widely used, advertised, and advocated alcohol? I'm gonna state that the issues are so well known, I don't have to point them out.
I've found myself in discussions with people who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge that alcohol is even a drug. That position shows a very low level of comprehension of not only their drug of choice, but also essential critical thinking skills.
I'm not trying to make a statement glorifying any recreational drug, their purpose is typically not to enhance one's physical health, but to relax and restore one's state-of-mind. I just feel they need to be evaluated on a level playing field, with some appearance on objectivity.
Onward, Christian soldiers!
I second this opinion.
Weed works better for chemo nausea than pills
That may be the true impact of it.
I would not deny therapy to anyone.
Hi Edwin! Good article. Another “suber”-did article on medication and side effects from ChatGPT. It was very interesting. The millennials
are taking the pill market over, in my opinion.
They have had negative side effects from their parents and teachers and peers all of their lives about marijuana. Why would they want to smoke?
I do use medical cannabis. I am allergic to opioids and steroids and anti inflammatory medications.
I had my left knee replacement in June, all I used was medical cannabis. I got out of the hospital within 12 hours and it’s Dec? Wow, and I am healed on outside, it takes typically a year to heal from replacement surgery. I am fine, I healed 2x faster than someone taking opioids. Imagine that?!?!😊 The doctors said it was better, I am not hurting my heart, kidneys or liver…🧐🤨why do they prescribe opioids if they know this??????? The millennial PA asked me if I wanted oxycodone for the pain, I said Megan, I am allergic, do you want me to wind up in anaphylactic shock?!?!
Btw, that anaphylactic shock, happens to many people. I found out I was allergic after a major kidney surgery I had. The doctor gave me morphine for the pain. I woke up from surgery and went into shock within 5 minutes after surgery. That sucks!
A lot of young kids and millennials go to this specific dispensary, I go to, I see many age groups and parents bringing their children with them.
I think the decline comes from legalization and millennials don’t have a taste for the “product.” The millennials like their “pills”. I know many young people, 30’s, 20’s that don’t smoke or drink BUT they take pills. Adderall, opioids, etc.
Which is worse, but kids and pills always go together, right? I have seen several overdoses in my life, I thought I would never see, my cousin for one example.
Very successful treatment, I am proud of you. My own hip replacement surgery was a time consuming affair, but mostly successful.
How long ago did you have your replacement?
Got it in 2017, healing took a long time because of a bone disorder, knew I should have given up on motorcycles sooner!
Awesome, Edwin! That’s so cool to hear!
This is my 7th replacement surgery! lol. The freakin’ doctors didn’t know I have hypermobile joints. They call it a syndrome, I was born this way, it’s a genetic thing, like being allergic to opioids. My biological mother,(I was adopted), is allergic to opioids.
There is so much messed up with the medical profession, I always wanted to be a doctor, but I see all the crap they take and the crap they take from their patients…lol, (someone like me, that researches to death), it hurts their profession. Oh well, WE ALL NEED THE TRUTH and need to know what is going into our bodies, right? (Just like the vax…)
To me anything that alters your perception of reality is suspect. When I was about 21 I finally tried it TWICE. The first time was with my future to be wife at a friends. I found myself doing the limbo under a coffee table listening to Rush music. The other time I was coming home and thought I was going to crash into a wall by my residence because I was going way too fast as I came to it and then looked down at the speedometer and saw I was going 5 MPH. That was enough for me and I'm now 70. Twice.. who really needs it? Keep the temple clean and a lot of the crap folks get won't be there. Look at G. Edward Griffin, he's like 96 and still sharp as a tack. He doesn't do anything that disrupts the normal body process. Me? I am addicted to carbs and sugar and suffer from diabetes because I simply can't kick the habit. Sometimes I wonder which is worse, thinking I'm driving 90 mph when I'm only going 5 or waking up with neuropathy and other ailments caused by too much glucose in the blood. Getting old sucks.
Marijuana is something to be avoided, if you treasure your brain. Over 50 years ago I tried it several times...but thought that I really didn't need it. I wasn't into alcohol either. Several years ago, I had a problem sleeping and my daughter read that an oil with THC in it might help me sleep. I bought some and used it for perhaps a week. However, it didn't help me sleep. However, I noticed it affected my memory in that short time. I started forgetting where I put things. It affected my mind. So, I totally stopped using it. I resolved my sleep issues by changing my sleep pattern...getting up earlier and exercising daily.. By early evening, I was ready to sleep.
Before anyone reading this puts Cannabis in the category of a dangerous drug/narcotic, I highly advise you to do more research on the plant as to why it was categorized as a dangerous drug as well as do extensive research on the Endocannabinoid system in the body of every human being and the importance of that system for complete homeostasis of every other organ system in the body including the therapeutic compounds in Cannabis (CBD, THC, CBG, CBGA, etc). Having owned a medical clinic for twenty-four years, I have seen people's lives completely turn around with Cannabis therapy. I also highly recommend reading two books, "Nature's Answer to Cancer" by Rick Simpson/Rick Simpson Oil and Bonni Goldstein M.D. book, "Cannabis is Medicine." Just an FYI, the Rockefeller family spent millions of dollars back in the 1930s stigmatizing the dangers of Cannabis because they could not get a patent on Cannabis because it is a plant and they knew the therapeutic benefits of it; in other words, if they couldn't control it, no one could have access it to it. Big Pharma does not want you to access Cannabis; it is a joke that it is a Schedule I narcotic, according to the DEA. No one has ever overdosed on Cannabis, and it has many health benefits. This comes from someone who has been in the medical field most of my life and is devoted to faith in the Lord.
The very knowledge you reveal has been covered up for generations, it, like all drugs of abuse can be abused, but the differences ic can make individually can be earth shattering.
A young male neighbor of mine smokes weed. He episodically suffers from severe bouts of coughing. I approached him the other day with some (sugar free) Ricola cough suppressants, and conveyed how helpful they've been to me (a non-smoker) on occasion. You'd think he might bake his grass into some cookies or brownies instead.
People are dumb. Most don't wake up until they're coughing-up blood, and then think: "Gee, maybe I'm doing something wrong, here."
Marijuana suppresses impetus, motivation and drive. I've never met a friend or client whose regular use of Marijuana wasn't deleterious to their life... even if they only used it to get to sleep at night. Diphenhydramine is a much better, non-habit forming option, if ya have trouble shutting down your obsessive-compulsive thinking.
My clinical experience has revealed that people with ADHD symptoms (not ADD) have used Marijuana since they were teens. It apparently helps the hyperactive mind to slow a bit, in order to function better, and stay on task with a project.
Still, the routine use of it has far reaching consequences~ and just like any other addiction, aids in and perpetuates dissociation from one's emotions, which is the sole ROOT of personality disorder traits.
I feel so safe on my drive to Charlotte at 6 AM with traffic jamming all around and nuts driving like nuts and then the smell of pot. Driving stoned at 6AM on the way to work.
Whatever works for you. We are all different, that’s for sure.
Hell if I was smoking a J cops would pull me over and kick the shit out of me on the way to jail. I have to be drug free because of my carry permit.
Having a Father who raised 4 boys was pretty strict. Dad, being a Pharmacist made it harder. Out of the neighborhood kids, we were the Only one's who were Never arrested for Anything. Dad made us 4 a promise, we would regret the day we were born if we ever messed with drugs....Dad Loved us enough to take whatever measures needed to keep us on the straight and narrow. Pot from the early 1970's, it took a joint or two to get the High that one "toke" of high grade pot gets you today. Today pot has expanded to give you very specific highs or relief from many common ailments. But if I were a Stoner today I would grow my own just to be sure I knew what I was getting. Fentenyl boosting of Pot scares the Hell out of me. It might not be the grower, but on down the line, a dealer may spike his Product with Fentenyl or anything else. Pot definitely has it's medical uses, how Pot helps Parkinsons Patients is nothing short of miraculous and should be studied further. Once Vivake and Elon get done drowning Swamp Rats and get rid of Entrenched Bureaucrats, we can look forward to Real and Progress helpful to All People!
I challenge anybody who has witnessed an alcoholic experiencing the psychosis known as "DT's" during withdrawal (yes, withdrawal from ADDICTION!) to come away from that still maintaining their beliefs alcohol is not a dangerous drug. Or, that it even is a drug, in some cases.
Consuming large quantities of alcohol for extended periods of time just 'cause the gubmint advocates it (practically) and the manufacturers endorse it's safety sounds eerily similar to following orders from the "jab assassins" to vax, vax, and then vax some more.....
Onward, Christian soldiers!
Reefer madness has destroyed my brother’s family , thus our whole family dynamics .
Putting aside our own moral beliefs about marijuana that say "right" or "wrong" I'd just like to point out the "expert" sources the writer cites as evidence for the argument he is presenting: WebMD.
WebMD tells you masks work and are safe, children need vaccines - ALL of them, everybody should get annual flu shots. That tells you Covid vaccines saved lives, and there's no correlation between them and excess deaths from myoocarditis, clots, turbo cancers, especially in young people never at risk before the shots. The WebMD that tells you what the drug-pushing doctors tell you about prescription drug risk, understating risk. The same WebMD that tells you natural immunity is a "New Age belief system." The same WebMD that says sometimes God makes a mistake and puts a little boy in a little girl's body and doctors can fix God's mistakes. The same WebMD that tells you natural medicines, including herbal, homeopathic, ayurvedic, naturopathic, holistic, TCM and other non-allopathic healing modalities are ineffective, often unsafe, and only promoted by "quack" con artists to desperate and uneducated people. The same WebMD that told you water fluoridation is safe and effective. The same WebMD that says readers of this Substack page are conspiracy theorists and dumb people about most every single topic this Substack shares.
But they got the marijuana story and studies right.
How much credibility you give their studies and the story depends on what your own moral beliefs say about marijuana, if using it is "right" or "wrong." Information presented as lots of opinion citing a single source that has demonstrated its commitment to truth in the examples cited above makes it pure opinion and agenda, just like the examples above. An agenda piece masquerading as an authoritative deliberative examination of the subject..
Recreational drugs are not good. Whether it is pot, cocaine, heroin, or alcohol, they all have their bad points. In the case of pot, it does have some useful medical benefits. In a "free" country, we should have the right, without government interference, to partake. That doesn't mean it's right or healthy. If government could effectively tax it and if Big Pharma could earn profits off it, pot would be legal. Personally, I don't indulge in recreational drugs of any sort. Experience taught me they really of no benefit.
Todays MMJ is not the same as it was in my late teens, It is stronger, and apt to be laced with something more harmful. I personally don't think any of them are 'safe'. Now it is grown commercially for prescription sale, are there consistent regulations? Sold and with a big Tax on it. People still have the issue they use it while Driving, risking others lives. It is still FEDERALLY ILLEGAL.
Edwin, am I blocked? I tried to like a comment and it said I was blocked from doing so. Hmmm...seems odd.
Not by me, good buddy!