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Here’s today’s headline:

Study: Even Infrequent Use of Marijuana Increases Risk of Psychosis by 40 Percent

And here’s a snippet of the article:

LONDON Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous.

The new review suggests that even infrequent use could raise the small but real risk of this serious mental illness by 40 percent.

Doctors have long suspected a connection and say the latest findings underline the need to highlight marijuana’s long-term risks. The research, paid for by the British Health Department, is being published Friday in medical journal The Lancet.

Now, I have reported on this issue before. However, at that time, I kinda poked fun at the issue. However, on this blog, it takes a little different perspective. For instance, I just did a post on the New World Order. Now, in order to believe in the New World Order, you have to believe in aliens, satanic rituals, people eating babies, men in black, and just about every single conspiracy theory that has ever existed is all a coordinated plan to rule the world by a select few super-intellectuals that include George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. I came to the conclusion one has to be crazier than a bird to believe in the New World Order. Being crazier than a bird is a layman’s term for one of the myriad of psychosis. In addition, I have a hard time understanding some uber-liberals logic. It just doesn’t make sense. The Iraq conflict has exposed them with a bright shining beacon. Their logic is that since the US was attacked, and we attacked back, we’re less safe now than we were when we were being attacked even though we haven’t been attacked since we attacked. Go figure that one huh? My logic is polar opposite. Since we haven’t been attacked since then, we’re doing something right. Then of course, you got the Bush destroying all our civil rights crowd. I love them. They cite nothing to support their phobia but are scared to death of the president they poke fun at for being almost completely unable to speak a coherent sentence. The blogdom is overwhelmed by bloggers publicly protesting their loss of those freedoms that they don’t know if they ever had or not. Go figure that one as well. Then of course, you got the Charlie Sheens and Rosie O’Donnells that are quite certain President Bush single handedly brought down the World Trade Centers while muddling a speech to elementary school kids, citing the fact fire couldn’t melt steel while a bridge in Oakland was melting from a truck fire. That irony was of course a setup by the New World Order to make Bush look smart. Go figure all that if you can. It never stops. The headline story of the week is Ward Churchill claiming that plagiarism, theft, citing non-facts as facts, harassment, copyright infringement, lying, and teaching unverified conspiracy theories are a protected form of freedom of speech and should be supported with taxpayer money. I just don’t get that one either. These are just a few examples. I could cite many, many, many, more. Now, having a little experience in the field of psychosis, I recognize it to a certain degree. However, rather than just taking my word for it, let’s look a little closer, shall we?

From Wiki:

A phobia (from the Greek φόβος “fear”), is an irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one’s control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety disorders can be made. ^[1]

Now, that sound familiar? It should. I won’t take it to the next level because things could get excessively long and I try to adhere to the 100 word rule for the most part. However, a lot of these people exhibit to me a certain degree of psychosis. Not the paralyzing schizophrenia of The Wall that people tend to react to, but, a persistent fear of something that they are fighting against in order to avoid being exposed to the feared subject.

Following me so far? OK, now, let’s look at the social norm of the last forty years or so. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, kids smoking pot “in the last month” are about 18% (varies pretty wildly from year to year ). Now, what percentage of the US would you guess is uber-liberal? I’m not talking run of the mill liberal here, I’m talking those people, like Ward Churchill, Charlie Sheen, and Rosie O’Donnell, that have fears of persons completely unfounded by reality and could care less about the real world. I’m gonna bet it’s somewhere around 18% and varying wildly year to year. Now, what’s scary to me these days is that most of our government leadership grew up in the 60’s. I think you can figure where I’m going with that, so I’ll just leave it there.

I’m not EVEN going to tackle what meth does to your brain. However, some people are quite certain communism is a good thing and some even think being a Nazi in this modern era has its advantages. Something’s amiss there as well. And, I don’t think pot’s strong enough to do it.

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