Posted by Kath on September 30, 2000, at 8:44:19
In reply to Re: the Evil Killer Weed, posted by stjames on September 28, 2000, at 11:09:17
Hi james,
I'm glad you mention amotivational syndrome. Obviously it doesn't happen to all pot-users. It's no small event, though. My 16-yr-old son's life pretty-well ground to a halt as a result of smoking pot for about a year.
He ended up dropping out of school with a Grade 9 education, doing serious damage to his relationship with his Dad & I, eventually getting kicked out of our home, eventually loosing all his friends & now feeling trapped, lonely, bored, etc.
At present, he's decided to take a pretty positive step for himself & will be away for a while to (hopefully) accomplish it. He's living here clean while he waits. He's a totally different person. Who knows what will happen. All I can do is pray.
Interesting point, though: Why do we have a THC receptor site? !!
Hope you're doing okay.
Cheers, Kath> Futhermore, and as you mentioned, there are many types of weed, with different potencies, moany of wich can no longer be considered as a soft drug, but as a hallucinogenic.
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> james here.....
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> Hallucinogenic, not really. It is hard to classify pot, chemically it looks somewhat
> like a psychedelic and as it potentaites
> other psychedelics, as do many psychedelics,
> so some call it a psychedelic. However no one
> will ever trip on pot alone. The body has THC receptor sites, a finite number, once they are filled you get no higher. The level to bring on visions is far above this level. Psychotic reactions from long term use.....that is not my experience from reading and otherwise. Some people
> do have negative reactions when they smoke pot, therefor they avoid it. Long term used does carry the possibility of amotavational syndrome. Where did you read this about long term and psychosis ?
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> james
poster:Kath
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