Marijuana and mental illness

There were a lot of suicides by younger people in Amsterdam, NY. None of them were from Pot-users. Heroin was the cause of a lot of them, it had become an epidemic in the 90's.

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Originally Posted by beachguy in thongs

I knew a guy who had older brothers, this guy was tall, and he had a father who always had his sons in basketball (and baseball). All the brothers were tall. His name was Jeff. He did not smoke weed. He had a promising life as a basketball player, he was one of our city's best.

No weed, he shot himself in the head, in his room, when he was a junior in high school.

The whole family would be so different had marijuana been a factor in the American Family Way of Life. The stress would not have caused him to shoot himself in the head. I remember being at his house and seeing his father, whom I've known since I was little, Jeff was my age. Then a year after, his father had set-up a city-wide memorial basketball tournament and, after the games one Saturday, a bunch of us went back to his house. He had a keg in the garage for everyone.

At this point, I realized that marijuana was the last thing that Mr. Johnson would have wanted his son, Jeff, to do. Maybe, he should have advised it.

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erm thats a bit drastic, someone killed themselfs but if they had smoked weed they wouldnt of?? can u see the future or something? cannabis is generally not a good drug to use if uve got mental illness, if he was that gone to kill himself without the aid of drugs well then there wasnt much hope

He might have gotten into a serious drug. I know he didn't smoke Weed. Don't go analyzing the situation because there is so much more to it than just what I wrote.

Like the fact that I picked him off of First Base, a few years before, and his father was the coach and screamed at him in front of everybody, right on the playing field. That's how much pressure he had.

The poll says "do you agree with the statement below?". but there's no quotations anywhere, so do you mean the statement that it causes mental illness or the statement that you wrote yourself?

Hey, mrdevious!

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Originally Posted by yAwn

Hey, mrdevious!

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uh... hi! :) lol... I get a lot of these for some reason :p

Yup, all from me. Hi! See?

Sorry about that - I was trying (and failed miserably, by the looks of it lol) to get peoples opinions on the statement I wrote. In short, do you agree with me that its probably the 'soap bar' that causes these illnesses - by the consumption of turpentine, beeswax, bootpolish and so forth - or do you think its the actual cannabis buds themselves?
Would be interesting for scientists to conduct a study on this, between groups of people smoking soap-hashish and buds, and also different amounts consumed in different methods. For example, if smoking buds proved to increase the risk of mental illness, does cooking and eating also increase the chance or is this a safe method?

I guess, I misunderstood the question, I don't remember voting on that.

Only the mad are sane in an insane world....

or somthing to those words.....if you think its making you/going to make you insane then stop smoking....its a simple as that....or keep smoking and deal with the consequences.....

.....to tell you the truth i think its probly the THC cause you dont only have thc induced mental ilness in the UK...its all over the world (apparently)....i dnot think that soap bar is the healthiest way smoke smoke weed at all.



yAwn.....have you been here before dude?
if so, welcome back :D
if not, welcome :D