At least one generation of children has been sorely affected by marijuana in many horrific ways. Those effects have become a major threat to civilization as we know it in the Western world.
This could well be one of the most important documents you have ever read. Please take the time to read it and, if you agree, please do everything you can to push this post to everyone you know.
There are so many effects that marijuana is having on children and adults, some of which are changing Western society in profound and disturbing ways.
Governments like the tax money from legal pot sales so much, that they don't bother to study the disastrous effects of the drug. There is a lot of blood on their hands.
Populations in the Western world are suffering from very low birth rates, well below the 2.2 births per woman that are needed to maintain a population. For the sake of the economy, these shortfalls are made up for by immigration. It sounds like a win-win situation, but many problems are associated with importing cultures that threaten the very existence of Western society. For instance, while Western fertility rates are almost all below sustainable levels, Muslims in the West have fertility rates that suggest a doubling, or even tripling, of their numbers every 20 years or so.
But what is causing the low birth rates? I believe that marijuana is the major contributor, for two reasons. The first, but least important is that chronic marijuana users sometimes suffer from ED.
Chronic use of alcohol, marijuana, or other drugs can cause erectile dysfunction and decreased sexual drive - Brown University
But the most important factor in falling fertility rates is that marijuana users just don't want to have children. I once had neighbors in a brand-new subdivision who were pot smokers, neighbors on both sides of me. Both couples were in their 30s. Both couples loved children, but neither wanted the responsibility of raising them.
Having watched and studied pot smokers in the nearly 50 years since, that attitude revealed itself in profound and disturbing conclusions.
The neighbors on the one side seemed quite normal but for the lack of children. We had neighborhood parties once or twice a year, and they always drank alcohol and behaved normally. But during the last couple of years, he started using pot, and at the last party I attended with them he had grown long, bushy sideburns, wore a white shirt open to the belly button, was decked out in several gold chains, and talked a little differently. It's like he regressed to being a yuppie, which was so three or four years ago.
The neighbors on my other side were quite fascinating. Both held down steady full-time jobs and were apparently normal functioning people. Except, when Friday afternoon arrived, off came the work clothes, and on went smocks all the way to their ankles. Barefoot most of the year, they let their hair down which reached their backsides. Then they lit up the pot and stayed high until Sunday night.
They also had Walkmans in their breast pockets and earphones through which they listened primarily to Beatles music. I thought, 'That makes sense, they are on drugs, they are listening to the Beatles drug music, ie post-Maharishi, like Yellow Submarine, Revolver, the White Album, Sergeant Peppers. But, no, they didn't listen to 'that crap', they listened to the early Beatles. That made no sense to me at all, but then I began to put it all together.
Aside from the music, the apparel, and the vocabularies straight out of 1967 Haight-Ashbury, they drove a 1967 vehicle that they kept immaculate. I realized that this couple was stuck in 1967. That it was the fault of the pot they smoked wouldn't occur to me for many years.
Several years later, I was hitchhiking in Ottawa when a nice young man in a new pickup stopped for me. After a brief conversation, he asked how I felt about pot. I told him that I felt it was a lot like booze, a convenient way to avoid growing up instead of facing one's problems head-on. He almost stopped the truck and kicked me out, he was so angry. So I asked him if he wanted me to tell him what he wanted to hear, or the truth. He just looked at me.
Another decade or so later I encountered a boy of 15 who had begun to smoke pot. Ten years later, the young man was still acting and looking like he was 15. His wardrobe didn't change, his speech, his music preferences, his attitude, his likes and dislikes all remained the same as when he was 15. At 25, I shared my thoughts with him that marijuana leaves you stuck at the age you were when you started. He took it to heart, stopped with the pot, and suddenly began to mature and grow.
It was about this time when I made another startling discovery. After learning that pot was now many times more powerful than pot of the 60's and 70's, I began to read about Michael Jackson. That uber-talented young man was mentally messed up more than anyone I know. Why? His brothers, apparently, shared pot with him before he was even 10 years old. Imagine having a body that goes through puberty and becomes a man, while your brain is still prepubescent. It has become common knowledge that MJ had a doctor available to set up an IV drip every night so he could sleep. The IV injected pure THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, right into his bloodstream.
MJ's friend, Tommy Chong, was quoted as saying that MJ was more a man as a child and more a child as a man - not the precise wording. He indicated that MJ regressed further into childhood the older he got. I believe it was entirely because of the THC drip that he insisted upon every night.
More recently, I encountered a girl who started smoking pot when she was 14. That was several years ago. Now, in her early 20's she acts like a 12-year-old.
Today, I am wondering if Justin Trudeau smokes pot. His marriage broke up and the media has not even attempted to explain why. But my real concern is his reaction to the Truckers protest in Ottawa. His extreme overreaction makes me think he reacted like a frightened adolescent. If he smokes pot, could he have regressed into adolescence? That's frightening! Like MJ, a prepubescent mind in an adult body, is Justin an adolescent in the office of Prime Minister of Canada?
Justin has the same attitude toward climate change as Greta Thunberg, and he was videoed at a Taylor Swift concert swapping bracelets with kids while Hamas supporters were rioting in his home city of Montreal.
Am I the only one in 50 years to see these phenomena?
No, finally a Danish professor has documented the loss of maturity in Western society in a book titled, Infantilized. Dr Keith Hayward is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on matters relating to crime, terrorism, and popular culture. He lives in Copenhagen.
He published an article in the Economist recently -
21st Century people are far less mature than 1960s people. Why?
In it, he documents the fact that people, in general, are far less mature now than in the 1960s. Unfortunately, his conclusions as to why do not include marijuana. I'm convinced Dr Hayward needs to revisit his causal theories.
Drugs and Kids > More Scary Research into the Effects of Marijuana on Teenagers
The research announced today and published by the CBC in Canada includes these extraordinary statements: "Study findings suggest that adolescent cannabis use is linked to difficulties in successfully completing the tasks that mark the transition to adulthood,"
and, Increasing evidence shows that brain development during adolescence can be harmed by frequent cannabis use and cognitive functions can be permanently reduced.
Young people need to develop and mature and prepare themselves to meet demands in adult life.
"Cannabis use, especially frequent use, impairs this development and reduces the likelihood that a young person will be able to establish a satisfactory adult life,"
What are the consequences of the cessation or regression of maturity?
As mentioned at the top, there is a serious reluctance for pot users to have children. It's not because of poverty, or that the world is in such a horrific mess. It's because pot inhibits its users from growing up normally and developing the desire to have children.
As discussed above, the consequences are a diminishing national population, and the increasing immigration of people from other cultures, with other religions, ideologies, beliefs, and values. Europe is currently undergoing cultural suicide and will not be recognizable in two or three generations.
Russia has just introduced a bill to pay college students to have children. They also forbid the international adoption of Russian children.
A Scouts Canada survey found that most Canadians are concerned that children aged 10 to 21 are too soft and have not been taught appropriate coping skills to navigate their future.
The survey, which included 1,000 Canadians, uncovered that social media channels, screens and lack of development, social/peer pressure, video games and helicopter parenting are the biggest dangers to kids today.
Not even close! Child Sexual Abuse is the greatest threat to kids today and Marijuana is a close second.
Just over a third of those surveyed are not confident that the kids aged 10 to 21 will be able to get jobs in the future and grow into successful adults.
Canadian Convulsions > Canadian Youth "Very, very, unhappy!" - Happiness report
Canada ranks 15th overall, down 2 places from last year; but 58th when you just consider under 30s.
This is a precipitous drop in the Happiness scale for Canadian youth over the past 15 years. What has happened in that time period?
1. Marijuana was legalized. Not for kids, but the legalization is enough for kids to think there can't be any harm in smoking or eating pot or it would be illegal. Pot is easy to get in any Western country, at any age, too easy.
2. Gender fluidity is being taught in schools causing confusion and dramatically increasing the likelihood of a child attempting suicide - the very opposite of the excuse they have for teaching it.
3. Climate alarmism is pushed hard by all legacy media. Children have to worry if the world will last until they grow up. Such an irresponsible attitude by news media would never have been tolerated in the 60's and 70's.
4. Morality is just mass confusion anymore if it exists at all. The Fear of God hardly exists even in some churches.
5. Child sexual abuse is the worst atrocity the world has ever seen, and nobody wants to know.
Drugs and Kids > More Scary Research into the Effects of Marijuana on Teenagers
This study also linked the use of pot by teens as correlating well with such things as:
60% less likely to graduateNot attending college
18 times more likely to become dependent on pot
8 times more likely to use harder drugs
Suicide attempts
Depression
More likely to need welfare
Heavy marijuana users generally report:
lower life satisfaction,
poorer mental and physical health,
more relationship problems, and
less academic and career success.
What are some other nightmarish effects of marijuana?
In 2008, leading psychiatrists warned people who smoked super-strength pot were 18 times more likely to suffer a psychotic episode.
“Skunk (super-strength pot), which accounts for about 80 percent of the UK market has an average THC (a psychoactive ingredient) content of 16.2 percent and ranges up to 46 percent.
“Old fashioned '60 to '70s cannabis had around 1-2 percent THC."
The famous cannabis-selling coffee shops of the Netherlands are facing new tighter restrictions.
The Dutch government is reclassifying high-strength cannabis to put it in the same category as hard drugs.
It says the amount of the main active chemical in the drug, THC, has gone up, making it far more potent than a generation ago.
Marijuana is just not the same
Regular cannabis users double their risks of experiencing psychotic symptoms and disorders, especially if they have a personal or family history of psychotic disorders, and if they start using cannabis in their mid-teens.
A regular cannabis user refers to someone who gets high at least three times a week.
Playing Russian Roulette with Your Sanity
By smoking pot! Kids under 16 have a 1 in 6 chance of developing full-blown, irreversible Schizophrenia, Paranoia, or both, from smoking pot. 1 in 6 - just like Russian Roulette.
Does Pot make you Crazy?
Teenagers who start smoking marijuana before the age of sixteen are four times more likely to become schizophrenic.
Unfortunately, I know at least one young man, as nice a man as you could find, who suffers horribly from both schizophrenia and paranoia. His life will be one of drugs and difficulties thanks to pot.
Drugs and Kids > Cannabis linked to increased risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in young adults
Is Your Teen Smoking Pot? Is She Still Sane?
Research from the UK (reported in the Daily Mail)
Cannabis is a threat to mental health.
Cannabis use is now the biggest single cause of serious mental disorders in the UK, a leading expert warned yesterday.
Up to 80 per cent of new patients at many units have a history of smoking the drug, said consultant psychiatrist Professor Robin Murray.
Brain damage
More Research on the Dangerous Effects of Marijuana on the Brain
Research from Harvard Medical School indicates that even casual use of pot can cause permanent brain damage.
A New Zealand study found that cannabis users were more than twice as likely to have a stroke at an early age (18-55). Interestingly, there is no evidence of any correlation with heart attacks.
“Marijuana is just not the same benign substance that we knew about in the 60s,” says Kerrie Watt from Coastal Health. “It does have real health impacts and impacts in the lives of young people and their families in particular, and it’s something worth taking a look at.”
“Particularly in adolescents, the memory centers of the brain appear to shrink and that they are impaired in terms of their ability to learn and have good recalls of memories.”
Dr. Wayne Hall, who conducted the study, came to some of the following conclusions:
Regular cannabis users can develop a dependence syndrome, the risks of which are around one in 10 of all cannabis users and one in six among those who start in adolescence.
Regular adolescent cannabis users have lower educational attainment than non-using peers but we don’t know whether the link is causal.
Driving while cannabis intoxicated doubles the risk of a car crash; this risk increases substantially if users are also alcohol intoxicated.
More than 450,000 incidents of emergency room admissions related to marijuana occur every year, and heavy marijuana use in adolescence is connected to an 8-point reduction of IQ later in life, irrespective of alcohol use.
Marijuana Use Linked to Brain Abnormalities
The results showed differences in two brain areas associated with emotion and motivation — the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens. Users showed higher density than non-users, as well as differences in shape of those areas. Both differences were more pronounced in those who reported smoking more marijuana.
I posted this open letter from my Facebook page, Voice of the Children: (https://www.facebook.com/GaryWmMyers), and asked these questions before Canada legalized marijuana. Of course, I got no answer.
What are the effects on a child born to a woman who is a regular user of pot?
What are the effects on a child of growing up in a home where one or more parent is a frequent user of pot?
Several years later, I would ask how many toddlers have been treated in ERs for marijuana consumption because of chewables, and what are the long-term effects of that likely to be?
Japan has just passed laws making possession of marijuana a crime punishable by up to 7 years in prison. Their motivation was the rapidly increasing use of pot by Japanese youth. A most responsible decision by a national government needs to spread all over the world before we destroy another generation of youth.
There is the Denver man who, hours after buying a package of marijuana-infused Karma Kandy from one of Colorado’s new recreational marijuana shops, began raving about the end of the world and then pulled a handgun from the family safe and killed his wife.
It's time to end the madness!
Please push this tweet, blog post, or FB page as fast and as far as you can. Keep pushing until a horde of sociology Masters students all over the world are studying this.
Gary Wm Myers
garymsmail@gmail.com
@GaryWmMyers
