{"id":2783,"date":"2023-07-19T20:30:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2023-07-19T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T20:30:52","slug":"marijuana-and-mass-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2783","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana and Mass Shootings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/marijuana-leaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/marijuana-leaf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2784\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;leads to schizophrenia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I just wrote a newspaper column that connects some scary dots.  A <strong>study out of Denmark<\/strong> showed heavy marijuana use can tip people over into mental disorders, including schizophrenia.  Schizophrenics hear &#8220;voices,&#8221; that is: auditory hallucinations.  And they are, indeed, often distressing voices, frequently compelling the sufferer into suicidal or violent actions.  And because these voices are that &#8216;dark,&#8217; in some Christian circles, sometimes (not always) this would also be equated to demonic oppression and\/or possession.  (*See bestselling author M. Scott Peck, M.D.&#8217;s book: <strong>&#8220;People of the Lie.&#8221;<\/strong>)  The question I pose is, how many of these mass shootings, that our society seems saturated with these days, are driven by these &#8220;voices&#8221; these schizophrenics, and others, are hearing?  Looking at this one-dimensionally as, primarily, a gun control issue is tremendously myopic.  What&#8217;s more, given the Denmark study, how quick should we be to keep legalizing marijuana from state to state?  Answer: Not very.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;leads to schizophrenia? I just wrote a newspaper column that connects some scary dots. A study out of Denmark showed heavy marijuana use can tip people over into mental disorders, including schizophrenia. Schizophrenics hear &#8220;voices,&#8221; that is: auditory hallucinations. And <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2783\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}