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noname223
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- Aug 18, 2020
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First I wanted to make a ranking which are the most dangerous drugs. I did some research and I think the ways how they measure it is absurd. Many rankings pretended nicotine was the most dangerous. Because most people die of it. Or get cancer. I find this measurement really stupid. They claim it is so dangerous because so many people take it. But if people see heroin on rank 10. After alcohol or cigarettes it creates a wrong picture. I think this is dangerous.
So I lowered my goal with this thread. I only want to give my opinion on why I think weed is more dangerous than alcohol. If you listen to different experts you will get different answers. After my very short research I have seen some articles which claim weed was less dangerous than alcohol. But I don't agree with the argumentation.
I think my opinion of this is quite unpopular in this forum. I have learned about contrarianism as political philsosophy. And my favorite writer had this philsoph. I will think more about this philosophy. It is an interesting one.
Back to the topic. I don't drink alcohol and I have never smoked weed. There is this argument which many people mention. So many people die due to alcohol but noone died due to weed. I think this argument is wrong. Very wrong. I can give some examples. There are many people who drive cars despite they are high. But for me the most scary one. Weed can induce psychosis. I always was scared about psychoactive drugs. And damn I was right. I always told me what if I belong to this group 1-4% of the population who gets psychosis or bipolar due to weed/ other psychoactive substances. And yeah I belong to this group. I had psychosis. And if I took weed I would get psychosis. How do I know this? Childhood abuse triggered bipolar and psychosis. Yeah I could not prevent that from happening. But with my fear I always was right. And by the way 1-4% sounds low but I have not counted the people who just get depression. Though I don't have data for that.
I was several times in a clinic for people with psychosis/ schizophrenia. And so many people ruined their lives because they underestimated the danger of weed. I want to say: many people ctb due to the destructive impact of weed. These people are not counted in the statistics. Yeah many of these people also have done harder drugs. But I have met people who "only" have taken an their life is completely ruined.
The problem with weed is many people underestimate the psychoactive impact. It can ruin your life. Especially when teenagers take it. There is a lot of evidence if minors take weed the danger to develop psychosis is increased by a lot. I have met young people who developed schizophrenia simplex (a very severe form of schizophrenia). They deny that this diagnosis exists because the receovery rate is so low but these people are extremely fucked. I think I have met two guys with schizophrenia simplex. I don't know their real diagnosis they have not shared it I am speculating. But I have read a lot of literature on it.
I feel very sorry for these both guys. They smoked weed as teenagers. I have met one of them some months ago. I wrote a post about him. He cannot think straight anymore. His cognitive abiltiy is extremely low. He barely can't do anything. We had like a 5 minute conversation and his brain is broken. I think since many years. He always forgot what he wanted to say and a normal conversation was fully impossible. I think he is not suicidal. At least I think that. His thinking was extremely impaired. He lives in a home for mentally disabled people. I am extremely scared that I have to go there too to when my parents are dead. I think I will ctb before that. Many people steal all his stuff. Everything. His phone was repeatingly stolen. And he just cannot defend himself because his thinking is so impaired. It sounds very hellish for me. Like the concentration is too low to make anything. Many people with that condition say they barely fell anything. No feelings or emotions.
I feel so sorry for him. This is why I am way more scared about weed than alcohol. There were also other people who smoked "only" weed. One was acute suicidal. He said smoking weed changed his personality completely. Friends can't recognize his character anymore.
When I read about the effect of psychoacitve substances I am always scared. I mean I think being an alcoholic is also extremely horrible. And can destroy your whole life. But the likelihood to become mentaly ill is lower I think. And being mentally ill can be quite hellish. I think there are enough witnesses in this forum for that observation.
So I lowered my goal with this thread. I only want to give my opinion on why I think weed is more dangerous than alcohol. If you listen to different experts you will get different answers. After my very short research I have seen some articles which claim weed was less dangerous than alcohol. But I don't agree with the argumentation.
I think my opinion of this is quite unpopular in this forum. I have learned about contrarianism as political philsosophy. And my favorite writer had this philsoph. I will think more about this philosophy. It is an interesting one.
Back to the topic. I don't drink alcohol and I have never smoked weed. There is this argument which many people mention. So many people die due to alcohol but noone died due to weed. I think this argument is wrong. Very wrong. I can give some examples. There are many people who drive cars despite they are high. But for me the most scary one. Weed can induce psychosis. I always was scared about psychoactive drugs. And damn I was right. I always told me what if I belong to this group 1-4% of the population who gets psychosis or bipolar due to weed/ other psychoactive substances. And yeah I belong to this group. I had psychosis. And if I took weed I would get psychosis. How do I know this? Childhood abuse triggered bipolar and psychosis. Yeah I could not prevent that from happening. But with my fear I always was right. And by the way 1-4% sounds low but I have not counted the people who just get depression. Though I don't have data for that.
I was several times in a clinic for people with psychosis/ schizophrenia. And so many people ruined their lives because they underestimated the danger of weed. I want to say: many people ctb due to the destructive impact of weed. These people are not counted in the statistics. Yeah many of these people also have done harder drugs. But I have met people who "only" have taken an their life is completely ruined.
The problem with weed is many people underestimate the psychoactive impact. It can ruin your life. Especially when teenagers take it. There is a lot of evidence if minors take weed the danger to develop psychosis is increased by a lot. I have met young people who developed schizophrenia simplex (a very severe form of schizophrenia). They deny that this diagnosis exists because the receovery rate is so low but these people are extremely fucked. I think I have met two guys with schizophrenia simplex. I don't know their real diagnosis they have not shared it I am speculating. But I have read a lot of literature on it.
I feel very sorry for these both guys. They smoked weed as teenagers. I have met one of them some months ago. I wrote a post about him. He cannot think straight anymore. His cognitive abiltiy is extremely low. He barely can't do anything. We had like a 5 minute conversation and his brain is broken. I think since many years. He always forgot what he wanted to say and a normal conversation was fully impossible. I think he is not suicidal. At least I think that. His thinking was extremely impaired. He lives in a home for mentally disabled people. I am extremely scared that I have to go there too to when my parents are dead. I think I will ctb before that. Many people steal all his stuff. Everything. His phone was repeatingly stolen. And he just cannot defend himself because his thinking is so impaired. It sounds very hellish for me. Like the concentration is too low to make anything. Many people with that condition say they barely fell anything. No feelings or emotions.
I feel so sorry for him. This is why I am way more scared about weed than alcohol. There were also other people who smoked "only" weed. One was acute suicidal. He said smoking weed changed his personality completely. Friends can't recognize his character anymore.
When I read about the effect of psychoacitve substances I am always scared. I mean I think being an alcoholic is also extremely horrible. And can destroy your whole life. But the likelihood to become mentaly ill is lower I think. And being mentally ill can be quite hellish. I think there are enough witnesses in this forum for that observation.
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