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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SVPete on October 31, 2022, 09:34:10 AM
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San Diego ER seeing up to 37 marijuana cases a day — mostly psychosis
https://nypost.com/2022/10/22/san-diego-er-seeing-up-to-37-marijuana-cases-a-day/ (https://nypost.com/2022/10/22/san-diego-er-seeing-up-to-37-marijuana-cases-a-day/)
Kyle’s now in recovery, but his is a story that is becoming familiar to more and more American families. Someone begins showing classic signs of hardcore drug addiction. Eventually, they suffer a full psychotic break. But the only drug history is for cannabis.
“We’re now counting 37 cannabis-related diagnoses a day,” Dr. Roneet Lev, an addiction medicine doctor at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, said about her emergency department. “It’s been steadily increasing over the years. When I started in the 1990s, there was no such thing. Now I see 1 to 2 cases per shift. The most common symptom is psychosis.”
“We probably see 20 THC-induced psychoses for every amphetamine-induced psychosis,” said Ben Cort, who runs a drug and alcohol treatment center in Colorado. One study showed an increase of 24% in cases of psychoses in emergency departments in Colorado in the five years following marijuana’s legalization in that state in 2012.
Unsurprisingly.
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There are 4 issues on the Arkansas state-wide ballot this year, along with the mid-term stuff. One of those issues involves making cannabis "legal".
That one will be a solid "No way" from me and Mrs E.