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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
The point though is that apparently it can greatly increase your risk, regardless of if you are predisposed to mental illness or not.
The majority of people that partake will not end up developing a mental illness, that's statistics. That doesn't change the issue that you may be willfully increasing your chance of developing a severe mental disorder, or address how selfish a choice that is.
In my experience, it is the families of those who develop the disorder that bear the brunt of the responsibility for caring and providing for the individual.
Who are you to potentially condemn your parents or siblings to a lifetime of caring for you when your choices may have amplified the chance of developing a mental health disorder? Who are you to make the average taxpayer responsible for your well being for the rest of your life due to those choices?
Obviously, people are going to develop the disorders regardless of substance intake, it is unavoidable.
But what about those who willfully increase their risk of developing, and subsequently do?
Pretty slippery slope.
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I'll have to go back and read peter12's study, but how do we know that the development of said mental disorders are not a result of mixing weed with alcohol, smoking weed that's been produced in a certain way or laced with another substance (I personally think lacing is a myth but I threw it in anyways), or a result of marijuana with extremely potent THC levels? The latter two issues are much more easy find solutions to in an environment where marijuana is legalized and regulated than in a system where the black market is the primary source for marijuana.