Globalists bankrolled a 10-fold potency increase aimed at your children. And after I read all this, I regretfully gave up my occasional quarter gummy at bedtime.
I greatly appreciate the praise that I've gotten for this episode and the time my readers have taken to comment, even the negative ones. I wasn't sure it would resonate, but as you see, the vast majority of comments are positive.
After working on this thing and reading about all these problems over and over, I have resolved not to let any of this stuff into my body ever again. It's just too dangerous; it's filled with pesticides and sometimes adulterants, the quality is uneven, and it's just too damn strong. We have thousands of therapeutic herbs and medications, and I just can't see spending any time with one that has all these side effects.
My alcohol post is already written and I will drop it within a couple of weeks.
When you grow your own medicine from a truly organic source, it’s not at all dangerous. It’s medicine. You know it’s clean. You know it’s safe and effective.
You must’ve gone to some bad sources. Or you’re paid by the Rockefeller medical mafia to peddle their snake oil.
Because it’s the thc that cleans the pineal gland that they don’t want you to have.
THC is harmful to their agenda.
First they force toxic metals on the entire population via water supplies (violation of the Constitution) and jabs and RoundUp to calcify pineal glands which retards and can destroy intuition and discernment.
Then they ban the medicines that can protect and decalcify pineal glands and restore intuition and discernment.
They don’t want humanity to have eyes that see and ears that hear.
They want a completely controllable population.
That’s what you’re facilitating with your misinformation.
And it seems you’re having a toxic influence on the still blind normies leaving comments here.
EVERY THING THEY HAVE SAID FOR DECADES IS A LIE.
LIES ABOUT THE SUN, FROM RELIGION TO THEIR FAKE SCIENCE.
The SUN is “Jesus” btw.
Mary is the MOON.
Joseph is SATURN.
SIRIUS is Mary Magdalene.
#Astrotheology is the origin of all religions.
They’re all false.
Lies about jabs.
Lies about history. It should be called theirhistory.
Lies in education and all 12 systems of control.
The lies about the #sexoffender #registry.
When a fake cable guy, working for a Wexner-Epstein ring in Columbus OH , tried to take my 4 month old son, how would the registry have protected us?
The guy was on parole and not supposed to leave his home state. How did the parole laws stop him from leaving his state?
How would housing restrictions and distance restrictions have stopped him from attempting to kidnap my son?
He didn’t live even within 6000 feet of us. Not even in the same state.
Tell me, PLEASE, HOW DOES THE REGISTRY PROTECT ANYONE?!!!
No filthy politician will answer me.
Yeah, off topic, but it’s all connected and coming from the same vatican families’ control who have been the great satan, THEADVERSARY OF THE WORLD, for around 5600 years.
“Illegal” just means the psychopathic, amoral, greedy, vile, repulsive dirtbags don’t want us to do or have something.
Dr. Yoho: it's kind of funny that every time someone replies to my comment(s) on this post, whether they are pro or con, angry or equanimous, their reply comes into my inbox proclaiming "New comment on 419. Marijuana stays in your body for weeks, kills IQ points, causes addiction, psychosis, and permanent brain damage—and it was engineered that way." pretty ironic, especially when the person writing is vociferously making the opposite point. Yet in posting their views, they are promulgating the very message they wish to decry.
Did you actually think that reply held any data or science? Or just sounded like you just lit up? I think it somewhat proved the Dr may have a point re its affect on cerebral function.
Hope you did your own research and thinking this time.
Alcohol is easy. It is truly addictive, not habit forming like weed
It kills people, causes cancer, weed doesn't - 6 million a year dead from alcohol.
It kills brains cells, weed create brain cells
Men attack their wives when drinking.
Men attack the fridge when smoking weed.
Weed helps you sleep and it indicated as treatment for over 20 different physiological conditions.
Alcohol ? Every blackout is a measurable neurotoxic event. Hippocampal encoding shuts down. That is why blackout memories do not form — not because you forgot them, but because the hippocampus was too chemically suppressed to encode them in the first place. The cells were not doing their job because the toxin load was too high.
Chronic alcohol use produces documented hippocampal volume reduction, white matter degradation, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome from thiamine depletion, and cerebellar atrophy. All structural. All measurable on imaging. All progressive with continued use.
Where is your head at, trying to equate weed with that?
Sure I use it to make my tinctures and clean my wounds. Doesn’t change the fact it is a brain damaging killer when used for an addiction.. Look everyone gets their choice. Want to help yourself into dementia? Drink a case of beer a day. Your call. I don’t care. But I do not stand for anyone feeding bullshit in order to front their own prejudice.
Alcohol cleans the veins of plaque... and the French are said to overcome the effects of their rich sauces by a glass or two of wine every day. A little alcohol before bed boosts GABA and helps sleep. And alcohol can be a nice mood boost and social lubricant. I avoid black and white thinking wherever I can.
Wrong again. You boozers sure like to frost over the harm huh :P I think your phrase should have been " I avoid thinking about uncomfortable truths".
""Alcohol cleans the veins of plaque"
This is the resveratrol argument in disguise. The claim originates from observational studies showing lower cardiovascular mortality in moderate drinkers. The mechanism proposed was HDL elevation and mild anticoagulation.
What the literature actually shows: the resveratrol content in a glass of wine is pharmacologically trivial. You would need hundreds of glasses to approach therapeutic resveratrol doses. The cardiovascular "benefit" in observational studies is now largely attributed to the sick quitter effect — heavy drinkers and sick people stop drinking, making abstainers look unhealthy by comparison. Mendelian randomization studies, which control for this, show no cardiovascular benefit from alcohol at any dose.
The American Heart Association, the WHO, and the NTP all currently state there is no safe level of alcohol consumption for cancer risk. The "cleans veins" claim is a 1990s finding that did not survive methodological scrutiny.
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"The French paradox"
The French paradox — high saturated fat diet, low cardiovascular disease — has been attributed to wine consumption since Serge Renaud's 1991 work. It has since been explained by: underreporting of French cardiovascular deaths, Mediterranean dietary patterns, lower ultra-processed food consumption, and smaller portion sizes. Wine is not the variable. It was never isolated as the variable. The French paradox as an argument for alcohol benefit has been largely abandoned in the cardiology literature.
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"A little alcohol before bed boosts GABA and helps sleep"
Mechanistically half-true and functionally false.
Alcohol does potentiate GABA-A receptors — that is why it produces sedation. It does help people fall asleep faster. That is where the benefit ends.
Alcohol suppresses REM sleep. REM is when memory consolidation, emotional processing, and neural repair occur. Alcohol-induced sleep is neurologically non-restorative. Users fall asleep faster and wake feeling unrefreshed because the sleep architecture is disrupted throughout the night as blood alcohol drops and the rebound effect kicks in. The rebound — glutamate surge as GABA suppression lifts — causes fragmented sleep in the second half of the night.
Chronic use as a sleep aid produces tolerance, dependence, and progressive sleep architecture degradation. This is not sleep medicine. It is CNS depression being mistaken for rest. (It also damages your brain.)
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"Alcohol can be a nice mood boost and social lubricant"
Accurate description of acute effect. Not a health claim. Cocaine is also a mood boost and social lubricant. The acute phenomenological experience of a substance is not evidence of its safety profile.
( I dont need a social lubricant: while I don't recommend brain damage, or cancer or liver issues in order to feel comfortable around people.. )
The mood boost is dopaminergic and GABAergic disinhibition. It is real. It is also followed by a corresponding rebound — the well-documented "hangxiety" effect — as neurochemistry corrects. Chronic use downregulates the dopamine system, producing anhedonia and baseline anxiety that require increasing doses to temporarily resolve. That is the addiction mechanism.
(And it doesn't erase the cancer, the dementia, the dead brain cells...)
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"I avoid black and white thinking wherever I can"
This is deployed as a sophistication signal — implying that anyone who questions alcohol's benefits is being reductive. It is a rhetorical move, not an argument. The claim that alcohol has some benefits does not neutralize the mechanistic evidence of its toxicity. Nuance requires acknowledging both. Erin acknowledges the benefits and waves at the harms without engaging them.
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ABOUT NOD'S COMMENT:
""Solid.
"Want to help yourself into dementia? "
Drinking alcohol MODERATELY is associated with measurable hippocampal volume reduction. Topiwala et al. (2017, BMJ) showed no safe threshold for hippocampal atrophy. Even moderate drinkers showed greater hippocampal shrinkage than abstainers. Accurate neurotoxicity framing.
"I do not stand for anyone feeding bullshit in order to front their own prejudice"
— that is the methodological position of the entire rebuttal stated in one sentence.""
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META-LEVEL:
Erin is doing what the rebuttal documents throughout: applying generous interpretive charity to alcohol's evidence base .
The resveratrol claim is weak. The cannabis neurogenesis claim is not.
The sleep claim is demonstrably false at the mechanistic level.
The social lubricant claim is an acute effect observation, not a health argument.
Cannabis activates CB1→ERK→BDNF→neurogenesis. Alcohol suppresses hippocampal encoding, disrupts REM architecture, and at chronic doses produces structural brain damage."
Right. So much conversation here on why it's better than alcohol. The two drugs could hardly be more different. Yes, alcohol can have incredibly bad effects, not limited to blackouts, violence, dangerous driving, fetal alcohol syndrome, a destroyed life/family and cirrhosis of the liver.
Cannabis is more subtle, at least in the beginning. But many people of my generation started smoking it in the sixties and never stopped. It is a daily habit for lots of folks; some use it several times a day. I have seen lives detrimentally altered by its chronic addictive use. Amotivational syndrome (lack of motivation) is a real and serious effect. It is difficult for some so-affected to pursue a career or even hold a job. Plus there are adverse health effects, some of which are not well known.
total bullshit. typical of the < average I.Q.. person, they think whatever prejudiced opinion they have in their brain, must be true. I smoke it every day. 40 plus years. I have an IQ in the top 3% of the population, with a POI, or pattern recognition in the top 1%. Tested by pros. I am 63 years old, can do 160 pushups in 5 minutes, hang from a bar for 2 minutes 30 seconds. I am a licensed legal professional., have a trade license, and write meta research in my spare time.
Nope, your ignorance is not fact. It is total bullshit. Claude rips you a new one, based on the evidence of fact I found to debunk Yoho’s bullshit..
"The two drugs could hardly be more different."
Correct. They couldn't. One is a confirmed neurotoxin that suppresses hippocampal function at recreational doses, causes structural brain damage with chronic use, and kills approximately 95,000 people per year in the US alone. Marijuana activates the CB1→ERK→BDNF→neurogenesis chain. (That means brain cell creation, proven in science) Yantra accidentally made our argument.
"Alcohol can have incredibly bad effects — blackouts, violence, dangerous driving, fetal alcohol syndrome, destroyed life/family, cirrhosis."
Also correct. Every item on that list is a documented neurotoxic or systemic toxic outcome. Fetal alcohol syndrome is permanent, irreversible, structural brain damage in a developing human. It is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability in the Western world. Yoho never mentions it. Yantra mentions it and then pivots to cannabis anyway.
"Cannabis is more subtle, at least in the beginning."
This is the tell. "At least in the beginning" implies escalating harm over time. No mechanistic basis is offered. No citation. It is an impression dressed as an observation.
"Many people of my generation started smoking it in the sixties and never stopped."
Anecdote. Not evidence. Survivorship bias cuts both ways — those same people also lived through leaded gasoline, widespread pesticide use, unregulated food additives, and the beginning of municipal fluoridation. Attributing their outcomes to cannabis requires controlling for everything else. Yantra does not. Nor does Yoho.
"Amotivational syndrome is a real and serious effect."
Amotivational syndrome as a discrete cannabis-caused clinical entity has been contested in the literature for decades. The primary studies supporting it fail to control for pre-existing depression, socioeconomic stress, and — critically — the same neurotoxic confounder stack we have documented throughout this rebuttal.
What is documented: chronic heavy cannabis use in individuals with pre-existing low dopaminergic tone may reduce motivation. What is not documented: that cannabis causes amotivational syndrome as a universal or even common outcome in adult users. The Canadian Government Commission (1972) documented the opposite phenomenology — enhanced energy, creativity, and interpersonal engagement — in typical adult users.
Furthermore: alcohol-induced anhedonia and motivational collapse following chronic use is extensively documented, neurobiologically explained by dopaminergic downregulation, and orders of magnitude more prevalent in the clinical population. Yantra does not mention it.
"I have seen lives detrimentally altered by its chronic addictive use."
Clinical observation without confounders is anecdote. People whose lives are detrimentally altered by heavy daily cannabis use typically present with pre-existing anxiety, trauma histories, socioeconomic instability, and concurrent alcohol or other substance use. Isolating cannabis as the causal variable from a clinical observation is not methodology. It is pattern-matching under confirmation bias.
"There are adverse health effects, some of which are not well known."
This is a content-free statement. Every substance has adverse health effects. Water has adverse health effects at sufficient dose. The relevant questions are: what are the effects, at what dose, in what population, compared to what baseline, controlling for what confounders. Yantra answers none of these.
META-LEVEL:
Yantra correctly identifies that alcohol and cannabis are very different drugs, lists alcohol's documented harms accurately, and then pivots to cannabis concern without applying the same evidentiary standard to either substance. The comment is a demonstration of the asymmetric scrutiny the rebuttal documents throughout. Cannabis gets clinical suspicion. Alcohol gets a list of harms and a shrug.
That is not analysis. That is cultural bias with a medical vocabulary attached.”
true Erin. i am not saying pot has no upsides. in fact i copied some of the cannabis cancer-cure info to save. my point was to counter the drumbeat of "booze is so much worse than pot" here, when in fact the two substances have almost nothing in common other than their ability to alter the mind (which they also do in wildly divergent ways). and you're right. anything can be abused, or used responsibly.
Thank you for explaining that. The reason we talk about alcohol is that it's a useful comparison for people who don't understand toxicity of various substances. I figure that since we humans have learned to navigate a substance like alcohol, we can surely learn it with cannabis.
Look at my ketamine article. After I wrote it, I became much less sanguine about its healing possibilities, but you might consider it and certainly be knowledgeable about it.
Two years of one toke a day decalcified my pineal gland.
My IQ was way up from previous testing. Way up.
My functional medicine doctor had me do a Zyto scan a year or so after those two years. My pineal gland tested clean and considerably above 100%.
Since then, a dozen sacred ayahuasca ceremonies have expanded my awareness much further. MUCH further.
Got any useless misinformation for ayahuasca?
🤦🏼♀️
BTW, to those who don’t know…a calcified pineal gland shows up as white on an MRI. That’s how you can find out if yours is calcified.
Sodium fluoride calcifies pineal glands. It’s made from processing aluminum. Aluminum blocks frequencies, blocks neurons communicating.
Aluminum roofs block frequencies. Every time I go to a big box store I lose signal bars.
When my son put a new aluminum case on his phone, bars decreased from 4 bars to 1.
I told him to remove the case.
Bars increased back to 4.
He returned the case.
Aluminum also expands when heated. Like a lobotomy in the brain.
When the nazis injected prisoners with sodium fluoride and put it in their food and water, they discovered it made the prisoners docile and apathetic. Injecting bypasses the blood brain barrier works much more efficiently because it bypasses the natural orifices for entering the body. Ingestion is filtered by the intelligent body processes.
Guess what’s been in all #vaccine jabs for decades?
What do you mean “develop psychosis”? Is psychosis still a real diagnosis? Not sure I can trust any “study” after COVID. All I see is elites around me abusing coke and weed and they’re all high-functioning.
I think opiods should be available for extremely Chronic pain.
Alcoholic was the most toxic thing for me and I would rather be around someone who is a pot smoker than a drunk, but I choose neither 🙃 nor would you want to see me drunk on whiskey, I'm not a slobbering drunk, just mean as a rattlesnake. I don't even like me drunk. I haven't gotten in that shape for a very many years. Praise God 👏
Thank you Dr. Yoho. I promise I did not read your excellent post prior to writing my four-part series "Ultraprocessed Cannabis: Potency, Policy, and Public Health in America." The final post/podcast will drop Tuesday at https://www.eatinginamerica.co/p/ultraprocessed-cannabis-potency-policy!
We seem to be closely aligned on many points, including the potential for public health benefit with legalization and regulation at the federal level, the need for potency caps and standardization, that a copy of the tobacco/opioid/ultraprocessed food playbook has been passed to the cannabis industry, and the certainty that big money in cannabis will always prioritize profit over health.
And we tell the long story of cannabis in America in a similar way, although you brought many new facts and perspectives to me, and perhaps I have a few new angles for you and your readers! Also, I propose a number of recommended policy directions for us going forward. Would love your and your readers' feedback!
Robert Yoho MD: retired cosmetic surgeon. Zero specialist credentials in neurotoxicology, addiction medicine, neuropsychopharmacology, or epidemiology. Credential gap does not auto-invalidate claims. The evidence does that.
A NOTE ON METHOD
Every claim in this post rests on association. Not mechanism. Not controlled intervention. Association. In epidemiology, association is a starting point — a signal that warrants investigation. It is not a conclusion. It becomes one only when confounders are identified, controlled, and eliminated as alternative explanations.
Yoho controls for none of them.
The population he draws conclusions about is simultaneously exposed to fluoride — a confirmed developmental neurotoxin at population-relevant doses per NTP 2023 — organophosphate pesticides embedded in the food supply, alcohol, synthetic cannabinoids, chronic psychosocial stress, and pharmaceutical adjuvants with documented neurological effects. None of these appear in his analysis. None are mentioned. None are controlled for.
There is a neurotoxin that goes entirely unmentioned: alcohol. A Group 1 carcinogen — the same IARC classification as asbestos and benzene. A dose-dependent destroyer of hippocampal neurons. A substance that suppresses REM architecture, produces structural brain damage at moderate chronic doses, and when consumed to unconsciousness represents a measurable neurotoxic event — the hippocampus too chemically suppressed to encode memory at all. Freely legal. Culturally normalized. Never once referenced in a post claiming cannabis causes permanent brain damage.
When you build conclusions on association and leave the confounder stack unaddressed, you have not done science. You have selected a variable, ignored the noise floor, and called the result evidence.
That is the methodological condition of everything that follows.
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I am challenging you Yoho, to engage the facts, right here, right now. I will start with the summary, in order to make it easier to understand the argument first, before the science comes into play afterwards. I wonder, is the alcohol industry paying doctors to lie about marijuana again? Are they looking for another Anslinger to turn the herd back to cancer causing neurotoxic alcohol, and away from multi beneficial marijuana because it is free to grow, just like tomatoes?
While grow your own meds are non patentable and non profitable.
That is called motive, in my profession.
SUMMARY
Marijuana stays in the body for weeks: true, but toxicologically misleading. Conflates metabolite detectability with harm where none is demonstrated.
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Kills IQ points: not established in adults. Overstates causation, omits major developmental confounders including fluoride, and ignores a documented phenomenology in adult users that runs in the opposite direction. As a matter of fact, marijuana creates brain cells unlike alcohol which kills brain cells and kills brain matter..
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Causes addiction: based on a DSM-5 consensus classification whose severity is overstated. The withdrawal profile does not distinguish itself from ordinary hunger-state physiology and does not compare to alcohol or opioid dependence by any pharmacological measure. It causes the same withdrawal symptoms as does hunger.
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Causes psychosis: overstated generalization. Blurs conditional risk, genetic predisposition, and synthetic cannabinoid data into a universal causation claim contradicted by the documented phenomenology of typical adult use and unsupported by the study most frequently cited in its defense.
There is no evidence of cannabis-induced psychosis in neurotypical individuals. There is evidence people predisposed towards mental illness may be triggered by cannabis use. So the logical conclusion, just like people with peanut allergies don’t eat peanuts? The mentally ill should stay away from the following drugs as well as marijuana IF they have concerns.:
Corticosteroids — prednisone, dexamethasone. Documented to trigger psychosis, mania, and severe depression in predisposed individuals. Widely prescribed. No ban proposed.
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics — ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin. Associated with psychosis, hallucinations, and severe anxiety reactions. FDA black box warning. Still first-line prescription for common infections.
Benzodiazepines — paradoxical reactions including aggression, psychosis, and disinhibition in a subset of users. Prescribed daily to millions. Withdrawal can be fatal.
SSRIs — documented to trigger manic episodes in undiagnosed bipolar patients. Activation syndrome in adolescents. Prescribed as first-line treatment without genetic screening for bipolar predisposition.
Varenicline (Chantix) — smoking cessation drug. FDA black box warning for psychosis, suicidal ideation, and aggressive behavior in predisposed individuals. Prescribed to help people quit tobacco.
Interferon-alpha — prescribed for hepatitis C and some cancers. Causes severe depression and psychosis in a significant subset. Standard of care for years.
The pattern: predisposition plus substance equals risk. The solution in every case above is screening and contraindication — not prohibition of the substance for the entire population.
It is the standard applied to every pharmaceutical on that list except cannabis.
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Permanent brain damage: mechanistically inverted. The CB1→ERK→BDNF→neurogenesis chain directly contradicts it. The apoptosis literature concerns selective malignant cell death, not healthy neural tissue, and is presented without the context that reverses its implied meaning.
Engineered by globalists: no evidence presented. Market dynamics explain the potency increase adequately without requiring coordinated intent.
Higher potency means more danger: does not follow. Ignores dose titration in adult users. Potency alone does not establish proportional harm.
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Full paper, with citations and proper analysis behind this link.
A very thoughtful treatment of this controversial subject. I was the poster boy for marijuana from about 1973-78. I would have argued that not only should it be legal, but it should be mandatory. I was high almost continuously throughout those years, and accomplished very little academically, economically and socially. I ultimately quit unaided, not because of any health effects, but because I took a hard look at my life and didn't like what I saw. I don't recall experiencing any withdrawal, went back to college and graduated with high honors, and became productive in the workplace. To be honest, overall I had a great time and a lot of laughs. But I wanted more and realized it was time to leave all that behind. FF to the late 90's, and I was in excruciating pain from an extruded lumbar disc. The exercises a chiropractor gave me did not help. No way was I going to a regular MD. My wife encountered much difficulty obtaining health insurance when the system became aware of some neck problems she'd been experiencing. I also knew opioids were a trap. I smoked the evil weed a few times, and was astounded that the pain went away (temporarily). I subsequently learned that my chronic pain was being created by my brain as a response to stress and anger. A psychologist turned me on to John Sarno's Mind Over Back Pain, and my pain went away upon finishing that remarkable book. I've become convinced that the cannabis available today is too potent to regularly use recreationally today, and would never recommend it. That said, I would never deny it to someone who thought it could help them medically. How you translate that into an intelligible drug policy is beyond my ability to imagine, but I don't think total legalization s the answer. This seems to be one of those situations where we must choose between awful and simply poor outcomes. It is interesting what following the money reveals, as you point out. We have enemies, and they are trying to subvert us. Whether it's the fentanyl via Mexico courtesy of China, or Soros-funded pot initiatives, this subversion is very real. We need to awaken from our collective stupor.
I smoke (vaporizer, Indica) a little every night right before bed due to restless leg syndrome. According to my wife (before I started smoking), not just my legs, but my whole body jerks/spasms periodically throughout the night. That's why I started smoking. I still don't ever sleep well, but my sleep is GREATLY improved through smoking. I've tried cutting back recently and I found myself back to horrific "sleep" as a result. I really don't want to smoke and wish there was an better effective alternative.
it's kind of funny that every time someone replies to my comment(s) on Dr Yoho's post, whether they are pro or con, angry or equanimous, their reply comes into my email box proclaiming "New comment on 419. Marijuana stays in your body for weeks, kills IQ points, causes addiction, psychosis, and permanent brain damage—and it was engineered that way." pretty ironic, especially when the person writing is vociferously making the opposite point. Yet in posting their views, they are promulgating the very message they wish to decry.
I greatly appreciate the praise that I've gotten for this episode and the time my readers have taken to comment, even the negative ones. I wasn't sure it would resonate, but as you see, the vast majority of comments are positive.
After working on this thing and reading about all these problems over and over, I have resolved not to let any of this stuff into my body ever again. It's just too dangerous; it's filled with pesticides and sometimes adulterants, the quality is uneven, and it's just too damn strong. We have thousands of therapeutic herbs and medications, and I just can't see spending any time with one that has all these side effects.
My alcohol post is already written and I will drop it within a couple of weeks.
God left those seeds to heal the mind body and soul. Yes they changed, God also changed the earth it’s getting warmer & stronger.
When you grow your own medicine from a truly organic source, it’s not at all dangerous. It’s medicine. You know it’s clean. You know it’s safe and effective.
You must’ve gone to some bad sources. Or you’re paid by the Rockefeller medical mafia to peddle their snake oil.
It is more potent, so you consume less.
What are your thoughts on cbd oil? I do understand they can be in varied thc %’s…
I think it's relatively harmless.
Why? It’s part of the same plant, yeah?
Because it’s the thc that cleans the pineal gland that they don’t want you to have.
THC is harmful to their agenda.
First they force toxic metals on the entire population via water supplies (violation of the Constitution) and jabs and RoundUp to calcify pineal glands which retards and can destroy intuition and discernment.
Then they ban the medicines that can protect and decalcify pineal glands and restore intuition and discernment.
They don’t want humanity to have eyes that see and ears that hear.
They want a completely controllable population.
That’s what you’re facilitating with your misinformation.
And it seems you’re having a toxic influence on the still blind normies leaving comments here.
EVERY THING THEY HAVE SAID FOR DECADES IS A LIE.
LIES ABOUT THE SUN, FROM RELIGION TO THEIR FAKE SCIENCE.
The SUN is “Jesus” btw.
Mary is the MOON.
Joseph is SATURN.
SIRIUS is Mary Magdalene.
#Astrotheology is the origin of all religions.
They’re all false.
Lies about jabs.
Lies about history. It should be called theirhistory.
Lies in education and all 12 systems of control.
The lies about the #sexoffender #registry.
When a fake cable guy, working for a Wexner-Epstein ring in Columbus OH , tried to take my 4 month old son, how would the registry have protected us?
The guy was on parole and not supposed to leave his home state. How did the parole laws stop him from leaving his state?
How would housing restrictions and distance restrictions have stopped him from attempting to kidnap my son?
He didn’t live even within 6000 feet of us. Not even in the same state.
Tell me, PLEASE, HOW DOES THE REGISTRY PROTECT ANYONE?!!!
No filthy politician will answer me.
Yeah, off topic, but it’s all connected and coming from the same vatican families’ control who have been the great satan, THEADVERSARY OF THE WORLD, for around 5600 years.
“Illegal” just means the psychopathic, amoral, greedy, vile, repulsive dirtbags don’t want us to do or have something.
Start using critical thinking.
QUESTION EVERY THING!!!
Dr. Yoho: it's kind of funny that every time someone replies to my comment(s) on this post, whether they are pro or con, angry or equanimous, their reply comes into my inbox proclaiming "New comment on 419. Marijuana stays in your body for weeks, kills IQ points, causes addiction, psychosis, and permanent brain damage—and it was engineered that way." pretty ironic, especially when the person writing is vociferously making the opposite point. Yet in posting their views, they are promulgating the very message they wish to decry.
I love it.
FAKE NEWS!! 50 YEAR'S AND STILL PUFFING!!! FU!!!
Did you actually think that reply held any data or science? Or just sounded like you just lit up? I think it somewhat proved the Dr may have a point re its affect on cerebral function.
Hope you did your own research and thinking this time.
Alcohol is easy. It is truly addictive, not habit forming like weed
It kills people, causes cancer, weed doesn't - 6 million a year dead from alcohol.
It kills brains cells, weed create brain cells
Men attack their wives when drinking.
Men attack the fridge when smoking weed.
Weed helps you sleep and it indicated as treatment for over 20 different physiological conditions.
Alcohol ? Every blackout is a measurable neurotoxic event. Hippocampal encoding shuts down. That is why blackout memories do not form — not because you forgot them, but because the hippocampus was too chemically suppressed to encode them in the first place. The cells were not doing their job because the toxin load was too high.
Chronic alcohol use produces documented hippocampal volume reduction, white matter degradation, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome from thiamine depletion, and cerebellar atrophy. All structural. All measurable on imaging. All progressive with continued use.
Where is your head at, trying to equate weed with that?
Seriously irrational prejudice
Can’t it just be weed is not good for you, neither is alcohol.
No it cannot be so. Fact says otherwise.
Alcohol too has its benefits. It just needs to be used with care.
Sure I use it to make my tinctures and clean my wounds. Doesn’t change the fact it is a brain damaging killer when used for an addiction.. Look everyone gets their choice. Want to help yourself into dementia? Drink a case of beer a day. Your call. I don’t care. But I do not stand for anyone feeding bullshit in order to front their own prejudice.
Alcohol cleans the veins of plaque... and the French are said to overcome the effects of their rich sauces by a glass or two of wine every day. A little alcohol before bed boosts GABA and helps sleep. And alcohol can be a nice mood boost and social lubricant. I avoid black and white thinking wherever I can.
Wrong again. You boozers sure like to frost over the harm huh :P I think your phrase should have been " I avoid thinking about uncomfortable truths".
""Alcohol cleans the veins of plaque"
This is the resveratrol argument in disguise. The claim originates from observational studies showing lower cardiovascular mortality in moderate drinkers. The mechanism proposed was HDL elevation and mild anticoagulation.
What the literature actually shows: the resveratrol content in a glass of wine is pharmacologically trivial. You would need hundreds of glasses to approach therapeutic resveratrol doses. The cardiovascular "benefit" in observational studies is now largely attributed to the sick quitter effect — heavy drinkers and sick people stop drinking, making abstainers look unhealthy by comparison. Mendelian randomization studies, which control for this, show no cardiovascular benefit from alcohol at any dose.
The American Heart Association, the WHO, and the NTP all currently state there is no safe level of alcohol consumption for cancer risk. The "cleans veins" claim is a 1990s finding that did not survive methodological scrutiny.
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"The French paradox"
The French paradox — high saturated fat diet, low cardiovascular disease — has been attributed to wine consumption since Serge Renaud's 1991 work. It has since been explained by: underreporting of French cardiovascular deaths, Mediterranean dietary patterns, lower ultra-processed food consumption, and smaller portion sizes. Wine is not the variable. It was never isolated as the variable. The French paradox as an argument for alcohol benefit has been largely abandoned in the cardiology literature.
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"A little alcohol before bed boosts GABA and helps sleep"
Mechanistically half-true and functionally false.
Alcohol does potentiate GABA-A receptors — that is why it produces sedation. It does help people fall asleep faster. That is where the benefit ends.
Alcohol suppresses REM sleep. REM is when memory consolidation, emotional processing, and neural repair occur. Alcohol-induced sleep is neurologically non-restorative. Users fall asleep faster and wake feeling unrefreshed because the sleep architecture is disrupted throughout the night as blood alcohol drops and the rebound effect kicks in. The rebound — glutamate surge as GABA suppression lifts — causes fragmented sleep in the second half of the night.
Chronic use as a sleep aid produces tolerance, dependence, and progressive sleep architecture degradation. This is not sleep medicine. It is CNS depression being mistaken for rest. (It also damages your brain.)
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"Alcohol can be a nice mood boost and social lubricant"
Accurate description of acute effect. Not a health claim. Cocaine is also a mood boost and social lubricant. The acute phenomenological experience of a substance is not evidence of its safety profile.
( I dont need a social lubricant: while I don't recommend brain damage, or cancer or liver issues in order to feel comfortable around people.. )
The mood boost is dopaminergic and GABAergic disinhibition. It is real. It is also followed by a corresponding rebound — the well-documented "hangxiety" effect — as neurochemistry corrects. Chronic use downregulates the dopamine system, producing anhedonia and baseline anxiety that require increasing doses to temporarily resolve. That is the addiction mechanism.
(And it doesn't erase the cancer, the dementia, the dead brain cells...)
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"I avoid black and white thinking wherever I can"
This is deployed as a sophistication signal — implying that anyone who questions alcohol's benefits is being reductive. It is a rhetorical move, not an argument. The claim that alcohol has some benefits does not neutralize the mechanistic evidence of its toxicity. Nuance requires acknowledging both. Erin acknowledges the benefits and waves at the harms without engaging them.
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ABOUT NOD'S COMMENT:
""Solid.
"Want to help yourself into dementia? "
Drinking alcohol MODERATELY is associated with measurable hippocampal volume reduction. Topiwala et al. (2017, BMJ) showed no safe threshold for hippocampal atrophy. Even moderate drinkers showed greater hippocampal shrinkage than abstainers. Accurate neurotoxicity framing.
"I do not stand for anyone feeding bullshit in order to front their own prejudice"
— that is the methodological position of the entire rebuttal stated in one sentence.""
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META-LEVEL:
Erin is doing what the rebuttal documents throughout: applying generous interpretive charity to alcohol's evidence base .
The resveratrol claim is weak. The cannabis neurogenesis claim is not.
The sleep claim is demonstrably false at the mechanistic level.
The social lubricant claim is an acute effect observation, not a health argument.
Cannabis activates CB1→ERK→BDNF→neurogenesis. Alcohol suppresses hippocampal encoding, disrupts REM architecture, and at chronic doses produces structural brain damage."
Claude
Right. So much conversation here on why it's better than alcohol. The two drugs could hardly be more different. Yes, alcohol can have incredibly bad effects, not limited to blackouts, violence, dangerous driving, fetal alcohol syndrome, a destroyed life/family and cirrhosis of the liver.
Cannabis is more subtle, at least in the beginning. But many people of my generation started smoking it in the sixties and never stopped. It is a daily habit for lots of folks; some use it several times a day. I have seen lives detrimentally altered by its chronic addictive use. Amotivational syndrome (lack of motivation) is a real and serious effect. It is difficult for some so-affected to pursue a career or even hold a job. Plus there are adverse health effects, some of which are not well known.
total bullshit. typical of the < average I.Q.. person, they think whatever prejudiced opinion they have in their brain, must be true. I smoke it every day. 40 plus years. I have an IQ in the top 3% of the population, with a POI, or pattern recognition in the top 1%. Tested by pros. I am 63 years old, can do 160 pushups in 5 minutes, hang from a bar for 2 minutes 30 seconds. I am a licensed legal professional., have a trade license, and write meta research in my spare time.
Nope, your ignorance is not fact. It is total bullshit. Claude rips you a new one, based on the evidence of fact I found to debunk Yoho’s bullshit..
"The two drugs could hardly be more different."
Correct. They couldn't. One is a confirmed neurotoxin that suppresses hippocampal function at recreational doses, causes structural brain damage with chronic use, and kills approximately 95,000 people per year in the US alone. Marijuana activates the CB1→ERK→BDNF→neurogenesis chain. (That means brain cell creation, proven in science) Yantra accidentally made our argument.
"Alcohol can have incredibly bad effects — blackouts, violence, dangerous driving, fetal alcohol syndrome, destroyed life/family, cirrhosis."
Also correct. Every item on that list is a documented neurotoxic or systemic toxic outcome. Fetal alcohol syndrome is permanent, irreversible, structural brain damage in a developing human. It is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability in the Western world. Yoho never mentions it. Yantra mentions it and then pivots to cannabis anyway.
"Cannabis is more subtle, at least in the beginning."
This is the tell. "At least in the beginning" implies escalating harm over time. No mechanistic basis is offered. No citation. It is an impression dressed as an observation.
"Many people of my generation started smoking it in the sixties and never stopped."
Anecdote. Not evidence. Survivorship bias cuts both ways — those same people also lived through leaded gasoline, widespread pesticide use, unregulated food additives, and the beginning of municipal fluoridation. Attributing their outcomes to cannabis requires controlling for everything else. Yantra does not. Nor does Yoho.
"Amotivational syndrome is a real and serious effect."
Amotivational syndrome as a discrete cannabis-caused clinical entity has been contested in the literature for decades. The primary studies supporting it fail to control for pre-existing depression, socioeconomic stress, and — critically — the same neurotoxic confounder stack we have documented throughout this rebuttal.
What is documented: chronic heavy cannabis use in individuals with pre-existing low dopaminergic tone may reduce motivation. What is not documented: that cannabis causes amotivational syndrome as a universal or even common outcome in adult users. The Canadian Government Commission (1972) documented the opposite phenomenology — enhanced energy, creativity, and interpersonal engagement — in typical adult users.
Furthermore: alcohol-induced anhedonia and motivational collapse following chronic use is extensively documented, neurobiologically explained by dopaminergic downregulation, and orders of magnitude more prevalent in the clinical population. Yantra does not mention it.
"I have seen lives detrimentally altered by its chronic addictive use."
Clinical observation without confounders is anecdote. People whose lives are detrimentally altered by heavy daily cannabis use typically present with pre-existing anxiety, trauma histories, socioeconomic instability, and concurrent alcohol or other substance use. Isolating cannabis as the causal variable from a clinical observation is not methodology. It is pattern-matching under confirmation bias.
"There are adverse health effects, some of which are not well known."
This is a content-free statement. Every substance has adverse health effects. Water has adverse health effects at sufficient dose. The relevant questions are: what are the effects, at what dose, in what population, compared to what baseline, controlling for what confounders. Yantra answers none of these.
META-LEVEL:
Yantra correctly identifies that alcohol and cannabis are very different drugs, lists alcohol's documented harms accurately, and then pivots to cannabis concern without applying the same evidentiary standard to either substance. The comment is a demonstration of the asymmetric scrutiny the rebuttal documents throughout. Cannabis gets clinical suspicion. Alcohol gets a list of harms and a shrug.
That is not analysis. That is cultural bias with a medical vocabulary attached.”
Claude
Anything can harm you. Even water in excess can kill. That some people use pot badly is no argument against an herb that can be so healing.
true Erin. i am not saying pot has no upsides. in fact i copied some of the cannabis cancer-cure info to save. my point was to counter the drumbeat of "booze is so much worse than pot" here, when in fact the two substances have almost nothing in common other than their ability to alter the mind (which they also do in wildly divergent ways). and you're right. anything can be abused, or used responsibly.
Thank you for explaining that. The reason we talk about alcohol is that it's a useful comparison for people who don't understand toxicity of various substances. I figure that since we humans have learned to navigate a substance like alcohol, we can surely learn it with cannabis.
Good to hear back from you!
well done Dr. Yoho. and afaic, a real public service.
Thank you, Y!
Look at my ketamine article. After I wrote it, I became much less sanguine about its healing possibilities, but you might consider it and certainly be knowledgeable about it.
Yeah…..nope.
Two years of one toke a day decalcified my pineal gland.
My IQ was way up from previous testing. Way up.
My functional medicine doctor had me do a Zyto scan a year or so after those two years. My pineal gland tested clean and considerably above 100%.
Since then, a dozen sacred ayahuasca ceremonies have expanded my awareness much further. MUCH further.
Got any useless misinformation for ayahuasca?
🤦🏼♀️
BTW, to those who don’t know…a calcified pineal gland shows up as white on an MRI. That’s how you can find out if yours is calcified.
Sodium fluoride calcifies pineal glands. It’s made from processing aluminum. Aluminum blocks frequencies, blocks neurons communicating.
Aluminum roofs block frequencies. Every time I go to a big box store I lose signal bars.
When my son put a new aluminum case on his phone, bars decreased from 4 bars to 1.
I told him to remove the case.
Bars increased back to 4.
He returned the case.
Aluminum also expands when heated. Like a lobotomy in the brain.
When the nazis injected prisoners with sodium fluoride and put it in their food and water, they discovered it made the prisoners docile and apathetic. Injecting bypasses the blood brain barrier works much more efficiently because it bypasses the natural orifices for entering the body. Ingestion is filtered by the intelligent body processes.
Guess what’s been in all #vaccine jabs for decades?
My son became autistic after his 2-yr old jabs.
Guess when the autism cases started ramping up?
Same time the mass #vaccination agenda started.
2020 was the agenda on steroids.
Talk about that.
I use edibles for chronic insomnia & I will never return to sleeping pills
What do you mean “develop psychosis”? Is psychosis still a real diagnosis? Not sure I can trust any “study” after COVID. All I see is elites around me abusing coke and weed and they’re all high-functioning.
Those interested in this subject should read Drugs as Weapons Against Us by John Potash https://amzn.to/42rcC90
Is there a pill to take to stop vaping..
I think opiods should be available for extremely Chronic pain.
Alcoholic was the most toxic thing for me and I would rather be around someone who is a pot smoker than a drunk, but I choose neither 🙃 nor would you want to see me drunk on whiskey, I'm not a slobbering drunk, just mean as a rattlesnake. I don't even like me drunk. I haven't gotten in that shape for a very many years. Praise God 👏
I have a family member who needs to quit this Marijuana. how do they do that?
Thank you Dr. Yoho. I promise I did not read your excellent post prior to writing my four-part series "Ultraprocessed Cannabis: Potency, Policy, and Public Health in America." The final post/podcast will drop Tuesday at https://www.eatinginamerica.co/p/ultraprocessed-cannabis-potency-policy!
We seem to be closely aligned on many points, including the potential for public health benefit with legalization and regulation at the federal level, the need for potency caps and standardization, that a copy of the tobacco/opioid/ultraprocessed food playbook has been passed to the cannabis industry, and the certainty that big money in cannabis will always prioritize profit over health.
And we tell the long story of cannabis in America in a similar way, although you brought many new facts and perspectives to me, and perhaps I have a few new angles for you and your readers! Also, I propose a number of recommended policy directions for us going forward. Would love your and your readers' feedback!
CLINICAL REBUTTAL
Yoho (2025): Cannabis Neurotoxicity Claims
Point-by-Point Evidentiary Rebuttal — Medical/Clinical Audience
SOURCE CREDIBILITY BASELINE
Robert Yoho MD: retired cosmetic surgeon. Zero specialist credentials in neurotoxicology, addiction medicine, neuropsychopharmacology, or epidemiology. Credential gap does not auto-invalidate claims. The evidence does that.
A NOTE ON METHOD
Every claim in this post rests on association. Not mechanism. Not controlled intervention. Association. In epidemiology, association is a starting point — a signal that warrants investigation. It is not a conclusion. It becomes one only when confounders are identified, controlled, and eliminated as alternative explanations.
Yoho controls for none of them.
The population he draws conclusions about is simultaneously exposed to fluoride — a confirmed developmental neurotoxin at population-relevant doses per NTP 2023 — organophosphate pesticides embedded in the food supply, alcohol, synthetic cannabinoids, chronic psychosocial stress, and pharmaceutical adjuvants with documented neurological effects. None of these appear in his analysis. None are mentioned. None are controlled for.
There is a neurotoxin that goes entirely unmentioned: alcohol. A Group 1 carcinogen — the same IARC classification as asbestos and benzene. A dose-dependent destroyer of hippocampal neurons. A substance that suppresses REM architecture, produces structural brain damage at moderate chronic doses, and when consumed to unconsciousness represents a measurable neurotoxic event — the hippocampus too chemically suppressed to encode memory at all. Freely legal. Culturally normalized. Never once referenced in a post claiming cannabis causes permanent brain damage.
When you build conclusions on association and leave the confounder stack unaddressed, you have not done science. You have selected a variable, ignored the noise floor, and called the result evidence.
That is the methodological condition of everything that follows.
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I am challenging you Yoho, to engage the facts, right here, right now. I will start with the summary, in order to make it easier to understand the argument first, before the science comes into play afterwards. I wonder, is the alcohol industry paying doctors to lie about marijuana again? Are they looking for another Anslinger to turn the herd back to cancer causing neurotoxic alcohol, and away from multi beneficial marijuana because it is free to grow, just like tomatoes?
While grow your own meds are non patentable and non profitable.
That is called motive, in my profession.
SUMMARY
Marijuana stays in the body for weeks: true, but toxicologically misleading. Conflates metabolite detectability with harm where none is demonstrated.
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Kills IQ points: not established in adults. Overstates causation, omits major developmental confounders including fluoride, and ignores a documented phenomenology in adult users that runs in the opposite direction. As a matter of fact, marijuana creates brain cells unlike alcohol which kills brain cells and kills brain matter..
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Causes addiction: based on a DSM-5 consensus classification whose severity is overstated. The withdrawal profile does not distinguish itself from ordinary hunger-state physiology and does not compare to alcohol or opioid dependence by any pharmacological measure. It causes the same withdrawal symptoms as does hunger.
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Causes psychosis: overstated generalization. Blurs conditional risk, genetic predisposition, and synthetic cannabinoid data into a universal causation claim contradicted by the documented phenomenology of typical adult use and unsupported by the study most frequently cited in its defense.
There is no evidence of cannabis-induced psychosis in neurotypical individuals. There is evidence people predisposed towards mental illness may be triggered by cannabis use. So the logical conclusion, just like people with peanut allergies don’t eat peanuts? The mentally ill should stay away from the following drugs as well as marijuana IF they have concerns.:
Corticosteroids — prednisone, dexamethasone. Documented to trigger psychosis, mania, and severe depression in predisposed individuals. Widely prescribed. No ban proposed.
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics — ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin. Associated with psychosis, hallucinations, and severe anxiety reactions. FDA black box warning. Still first-line prescription for common infections.
Benzodiazepines — paradoxical reactions including aggression, psychosis, and disinhibition in a subset of users. Prescribed daily to millions. Withdrawal can be fatal.
SSRIs — documented to trigger manic episodes in undiagnosed bipolar patients. Activation syndrome in adolescents. Prescribed as first-line treatment without genetic screening for bipolar predisposition.
Varenicline (Chantix) — smoking cessation drug. FDA black box warning for psychosis, suicidal ideation, and aggressive behavior in predisposed individuals. Prescribed to help people quit tobacco.
Interferon-alpha — prescribed for hepatitis C and some cancers. Causes severe depression and psychosis in a significant subset. Standard of care for years.
The pattern: predisposition plus substance equals risk. The solution in every case above is screening and contraindication — not prohibition of the substance for the entire population.
It is the standard applied to every pharmaceutical on that list except cannabis.
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Permanent brain damage: mechanistically inverted. The CB1→ERK→BDNF→neurogenesis chain directly contradicts it. The apoptosis literature concerns selective malignant cell death, not healthy neural tissue, and is presented without the context that reverses its implied meaning.
Engineered by globalists: no evidence presented. Market dynamics explain the potency increase adequately without requiring coordinated intent.
Higher potency means more danger: does not follow. Ignores dose titration in adult users. Potency alone does not establish proportional harm.
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Full paper, with citations and proper analysis behind this link.
https://noddranoel.substack.com/p/marijuana-non-patentable-and-non?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
So you think that Opiate therapy is better for Americans than Organic remedies?
A very thoughtful treatment of this controversial subject. I was the poster boy for marijuana from about 1973-78. I would have argued that not only should it be legal, but it should be mandatory. I was high almost continuously throughout those years, and accomplished very little academically, economically and socially. I ultimately quit unaided, not because of any health effects, but because I took a hard look at my life and didn't like what I saw. I don't recall experiencing any withdrawal, went back to college and graduated with high honors, and became productive in the workplace. To be honest, overall I had a great time and a lot of laughs. But I wanted more and realized it was time to leave all that behind. FF to the late 90's, and I was in excruciating pain from an extruded lumbar disc. The exercises a chiropractor gave me did not help. No way was I going to a regular MD. My wife encountered much difficulty obtaining health insurance when the system became aware of some neck problems she'd been experiencing. I also knew opioids were a trap. I smoked the evil weed a few times, and was astounded that the pain went away (temporarily). I subsequently learned that my chronic pain was being created by my brain as a response to stress and anger. A psychologist turned me on to John Sarno's Mind Over Back Pain, and my pain went away upon finishing that remarkable book. I've become convinced that the cannabis available today is too potent to regularly use recreationally today, and would never recommend it. That said, I would never deny it to someone who thought it could help them medically. How you translate that into an intelligible drug policy is beyond my ability to imagine, but I don't think total legalization s the answer. This seems to be one of those situations where we must choose between awful and simply poor outcomes. It is interesting what following the money reveals, as you point out. We have enemies, and they are trying to subvert us. Whether it's the fentanyl via Mexico courtesy of China, or Soros-funded pot initiatives, this subversion is very real. We need to awaken from our collective stupor.
I smoke (vaporizer, Indica) a little every night right before bed due to restless leg syndrome. According to my wife (before I started smoking), not just my legs, but my whole body jerks/spasms periodically throughout the night. That's why I started smoking. I still don't ever sleep well, but my sleep is GREATLY improved through smoking. I've tried cutting back recently and I found myself back to horrific "sleep" as a result. I really don't want to smoke and wish there was an better effective alternative.
it's kind of funny that every time someone replies to my comment(s) on Dr Yoho's post, whether they are pro or con, angry or equanimous, their reply comes into my email box proclaiming "New comment on 419. Marijuana stays in your body for weeks, kills IQ points, causes addiction, psychosis, and permanent brain damage—and it was engineered that way." pretty ironic, especially when the person writing is vociferously making the opposite point. Yet in posting their views, they are promulgating the very message they wish to decry.
absolutely