PsihoKekec
Swashbuckling Accountant
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/...e-new-oxycontin-marijuana-psychosis-addiction
Decades ago marijuana was considered harmless and still has such reputation, but the stuff that is smoked now has little relation to what was smoked 50 years ago, modern day hybrid marijuana is massively more potent, causes physical addiction and long term medical issues. But it is still advertised as miracle cure for pretty much anything, without any side effects and that is not just due to hippie zombies, marijuana is multi-billion dollar legal business in the USA and people benefiting from it constantly seek to expand the customer base. Unsurprisingly, the Sacklers have thrown their hat in ring as well.
Prior to legalization, marijuana plants were bred to produce higher and higher concentrations of THC, a naturally occuring chemical compound in the plant that induces euphoria and alters users’ perceptions of reality. In the 1960s, the stuff the hippies were smoking was less than 2% THC. By the ’90s, it was closer to 5%. By 2015, it was over 20%. “It’s a freak plant that resembles nothing of what has existed in nature,”
In the era of legalized weed, the drug you think of as “cannabis” can hardly be called marijuana at all. The kinds of cannabis products that are sold online and at dispensaries contain no actual plant matter. They’re made by putting pulverized marijuana into a tube and running butane, propane, ethanol, or carbon dioxide through it, which separates the THC from the rest of the plant. The end product is a wax that can be 70% to 80% THC. That wax can then be put in a vacuum oven and further concentrated into oils that are as much as 95% or even 99% THC. Known as “dabs,” this is what people put in their vape pens, and in states like California and Colorado it’s totally legal and easily available to children. “There are no caps on potency,” said Stack.
Decades ago marijuana was considered harmless and still has such reputation, but the stuff that is smoked now has little relation to what was smoked 50 years ago, modern day hybrid marijuana is massively more potent, causes physical addiction and long term medical issues. But it is still advertised as miracle cure for pretty much anything, without any side effects and that is not just due to hippie zombies, marijuana is multi-billion dollar legal business in the USA and people benefiting from it constantly seek to expand the customer base. Unsurprisingly, the Sacklers have thrown their hat in ring as well.