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Originally Posted by MattyC
Are all mental health issues correlated to violence? Are all the correlations of mental illness to weed illnesses that have a high probability of violence? How much violence is the result of alcohol abuse? How many people become more violent with alcohol use, even if they are not regular users?
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It is an interesting set of questions.
Not all mental health issues are correlated with violence, certainly not.
The burden of severe mental health issues is substantial, however.
If there is a link between use of marijuana and increased mental health manifestation, then that is a massive societal cost borne by all.
I'm not debating whether or not alcohol makes people make stupid decisions. That one is pretty clear.
The point is, you can't arbitrarily say that by replacing X substance that people abuse with Y substance that people abuse, will definitively have Z as the result.