First of all we need to believe that smoking pot can lead to schizophrenia. It can affect the brain, particularly those under 25 whose brains are not fully matured. (One  of every five in the human family is vulnerable) The second thing I want to emphasize is that going cold turkey off any drug can be dangerous. When you suffer from psychosis, suicide is possible because of escalating hallucinations, (ie: voices in your head advising you that you have the ability to fly.) 

You need help to decompress from this huge combination of withdrawal from a drug that has embedded itself in the fatty tissues of your brain.(You can get high from pot smoke for month after you smoke your last toke)

I had a heck of a time with withdrawal symptoms from nicotine in my beloved cigarettes. I can’t imagine the psychic roller coaster caused by withdrawal from other chemicals might be.

Now that pot has been legalized for sale in every town in Canada we need to post the risks on the packages we buy. And talk about it in the schools.

Young people already drink booze. They have for decades. A friend confided he’d been an alcoholic since he was seventeen. Young people are more educated nowadays about the dangers, particularly in drunk driving, than they used to be.  The horrible stats of teens dying in car accidents every year seems to have decreased.

Education about the dangers of cannabis is what’s needed. The word is out about the horrors of alcohol useage and many so called hard drugs, but is there info in the schools and elsewhere about the dangers of smoking pot?  And also about how to access help for users to come down safely after days, weeks, months of being high.