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I know that "weed" is not just addictive and dangerous, it can be deadly. Enough THC and your heart rhythm gets dysregulated and there is no treatment that works.. I wrote up a refutation of every shibboleth of the legalization crowd years ago. I tried to get it to NPR, to every news outlet I could. Scientifically, the representations of the legalization side is codswallop.

Since then, a friend's son has been a casualty. A nice neighbor mom introduced him to concentrates she used. He got to screaming at his mom and calling her "You C*NT!" He put her in a headlock on their street when she stopped him from stealing her car to sell it. He joined a gang that required him to jump 4 random Hispanics on the street and beat them up. He got "Hella loaded" to do it. He got a job delivering drugs of all kinds, he was underage. So he went into the homes of rich, rich and famous. He broke windows at home. Then he did 90 days after his mom finally asked me to help intervene.

2 years prior he was a kid who loved animals and volunteered his free time at an animal shelter for 5 years. Now, he wanted to kill cops. He wanted to become a gangster and said he'd kill anyone in his way to make his rule obeyed.

The convicts he did his 90 days with at 18 had few teeth, and all told him he was an idiot. He got out and straightened out. He went to community College and excelled. In a famous 4 year institution, not living at home, he took a dive.

Now, he lives on the street. He does meth, coke, and whatever whe he can. He's dangerous as f*@k. His mom evicted him from her garage because of it. Yes, she isn't perfect, but his dive? That was "weed". That was him doing dabs and shatter, in class with kids laughing at the teachers who gave up and put them all in the same room and lied about their tests so they wouldn't stay. But most of those kids dropped out.

He will probably end his life by 30 to 35 after destroying his mind. His mother says he is now completely psychotic from all the meth.

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