Teens have access to vastly more potent cannabis than their parents had at their age. Parents need to understand the risks, including psychosis

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  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    The war on drugs has made research into cannabis difficult and compared to alcohol and tobacco, we are practically blind. Legalization has changed this and we should pay attention.

    The only thing to match the propaganda of the drug war is the CBD cure-all craze. I think that it’s wise to do some basic research so that one day we can have an informed opinion rather than a knee jerk reaction.

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      Research into tobacco and alcohol, use used to be practically impossible, but there were several congressional acts which pushed for independent analysis to get to the truth of these matters. But this happened after possibly centuries of their youth. Cannabis is only entered, mainstream consciousness, recently, and so it’s going to take a while before the taboo around it’s use fades enough forthere to be reasonably and rationally funded research into the effects of its use.

      • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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        there were several congressional acts which pushed for independent analysis to get to the truth of these matters.

        It’s wild to imagine the U.S. congress actually promoting independent scientific research. I wish I lived in a world like that.