How Will Legalizing Recreational Marijuana In California Affect The Wine Industry? | TODAY



Back in 1996, California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana, and in a few months, recreational use will be legal there too. Many are wondering …

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  1. psychosis

    POSTED MARCH 07, 2011, 11:03 AM , UPDATED NOVEMBER 30, 2011, 2:28 PM

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    Ann MacDonald
    Contributor, Harvard Health

    Teenagers and young adults who use marijuana may be messing with their heads in ways they donā€™t intend.
    Evidence is mounting that regular marijuana use increases the chance that a teenager will developĀ psychosis, a pattern of unusual thoughts or perceptions, such as believing the television is transmitting secret messages. It also increases the risk of developingĀ schizophrenia, a disabling brain disorder that not only causes psychosis, but also problems concentrating and loss of emotional expression.
    InĀ one recent studyĀ that followed nearly 2,000 teenagers as theyĀ ļæ¼became young adults, young people who smoked marijuana at least five times were twice as likely to have developed psychosis over the next 10 years as those who didnā€™t smoke pot.
    Another new paperĀ concluded that early marijuana use could actually hasten the onset of psychosis by three years. ThoseĀ most at riskĀ are youths who already have a mother, father, or sibling with schizophrenia or some other psychotic disorder.
    Young people with a parent or sibling affected by psychosis have a roughly one in 10 chance of developing the condition themselvesā€”even if they never smoke pot. Regular marijuana use, however, doubles their riskā€”to a one in five chance of becoming psychotic.
    In comparison, youths in families unaffected by psychosis have a 7 in 1,000 chance of developing it. If they smoke pot regularly, the risk doubles, to 14 in 1,000.
    For years, now, experts have been sounding the alarm about a possible link between marijuana use and psychosis. One of the best-known studies followed nearly 50,000Ā young Swedish soldiersĀ for 15 years. Those who had smoked marijuana at least once were more than twice as likely to develop schizophrenia as those who had never smoked pot. The heaviest users (who said they used marijuana more than 50 times) were six times as likely to develop schizophrenia as the nonsmokers.
    So far, this research shows only anĀ associationĀ between smoking pot and developing psychosis or schizophrenia later on. Thatā€™s not the same thing as saying that marijuanaĀ causesĀ psychosis.
    This is how research works.Ā Years ago, scientists first noted an association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Only later were they able to figure out exactly how cigarette smoke damaged the lungs and other parts of the body, causing cancer and other diseases.
    The research on marijuana and the brain is at a much earlier stage. We do know thatĀ THC, one of the active compounds in marijuana, stimulates the brain and triggers other chemical reactions that contribute to the drugā€™s psychological and physical effects.
    But itā€™s not clear how marijuana use might lead to psychosis. One theory is that marijuana may interfere with normal brain development during the teenage years and young adulthood.
    The teenage brain is still a work in progress. Between the teen years and the mid-20s, areas of the brain responsible for judgment and problem solving are still making connections with the emotional centers of the brain. Smoking marijuana may derail this process and so increase a young personā€™s vulnerability to psychotic thinking. (You can read more about how the adolescent brain develops inĀ this article from theĀ Harvard Mental Health Letter.)
    While the research on marijuana and the mind has not yet connected all the dots, these new studies provide one more reason to caution young people against using marijuanaā€”especially if they have a family member affected by schizophrenia or some other psychotic disorder. Although it may be a tough concept to explain to a teenager, the reward of a short-time high isnā€™t worth the long-term risk of psychosis or a disabling disorder like schizophrenia.

  2. I do not want any of this tracing every seed to seedling with a rf tag . That is overkill . No government can afford this heavy-handed, top down , you stoners are sick attitude. No one has died from cannabis ever !

  3. Weed actually tastes and smells goooooooddddd. Wine taste nasty and smell not as good either. Cannabis is just super safe. No hangover no dehydration. No anger. Calms your mind. Levels hormones. And reduces body temperature making it a very affective medicine for a fever For children and adults.

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  5. There are 3 main things that will take a hit…1 cotton industry..2 oil companys…3 pharmaceutical industries…this is why it was made illegal in the first place..and one more…paper industries.

  6. !!!END THE DRUG WAR!!! (famous quotes)
    ā€œā€¦marijuana [in its natural form] is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.ā€
    ā€“Francis Young (DEAā€™s own Judge)

    "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use…ā€
    – Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)

    ā€œCongress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.ā€
    -Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)

    "Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
    ā€œThe anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.ā€
    – William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author and commentator)

    "The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
    – Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobilologist, author & science communicator)

    ā€œYou bet I did -ā€” and I enjoyed it.ā€ ….when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
    – Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)

    Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a countryā€™s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
    -Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)

    "Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"
    ā€œWhy is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?ā€
    ā€œā€¦It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesnā€™t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit ā€¦ unnatural?ā€
    -Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)

    – – My Personal Favorite – –

    "If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
    – Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)

  7. Go for the sour d. She canā€™t find pickers, we canā€™t find trimmers, we trim our own. You canā€™t grow without a cultivator card. Wine is fine but weed is way better……. happy New year Cali šŸ™‚ woot

  8. Listen to the talking heads – seriously, who do they think they are? Oh wait, isn't that guy in the middle a baby molester & the woman on the right used to work at Mitchell Bros. in SF.

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