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1. 2/1/2021 Who is Funding These Idiotic Clickbait Headline Cannabis Studies?
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Who is Funding These Idiotic Clickbait
Headline Cannabis Studies?
Reefer Madness continues this year with more government studies for clickbait headlines
Posted by:
Reginald Reefer, today at 12:00am
Who is Funding These Clickbait Headline US Government
Marijuana Studies?
Will you kill yourself if you smoke high potency bud and are already thinking about killing yourself?
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/20/health/marijuana-abuse-teens-suicide-wellness/index.html
(https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/20/health/marijuana-abuse-teens-suicide-wellness/index.html)

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https://wacotrib.com/lifestyles/health-med- t/marijuana-abuse-by-youth-with-mood-disorders-linked-to-suicide-
attempts-study- nds/article_bd6b3f16-f999-5c71-8fcf-fbea958ab9f2.html (https://wacotrib.com/lifestyles/health-med-
t/marijuana-abuse-by-youth-with-mood-disorders-linked-to-suicide-attempts-study- nds/article_bd6b3f16-f999-5c71-
8fcf-fbea958ab9f2.html)
According to a new study, if you’ve got bipolar disorder or depression and you’re a kid – you’re probably going to kill
yourself or murder someone else because of weed. Oh, you thought this was reefer madness?
Nope – this is a study published in JAMA Pediatrics (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-
abstract/2775255) but once again – I have no idea how these studies get funded. I went through the data and found so
many issues with their ndings that the scientists who published the study must either be willfully ignorant about their
ndings or their personal biases have ruined their objectivity that it can’t really be considered “science” anymore.
Firstly – they con ated so many di erent issues together that the study seems more like it’s “guess work” than actual
science.

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For example; the factors that you could be at risk of when smoking weed and having a mood disorder – and this is
important, we’re talking about a population already at risk of violence and suicide – include; Deaths by suicide,
unintentional overdoses, motor vehicle crashes, and homicide.
In other words – just a whole bunch of di erent things they could throw together in order to con ate the data to make a
“point” that cater to the whims of NIDA – who funds virtually only anti-cannabis studies.
The next factor that should be looked at is the source of data. It was from the Medicaid records from Ohio where they
retroactively looked at death certi cate data and people who were dubbed “Addicted to Cannabis”.
They didn’t analyze the data in a place like Colorado or Washington which have had medical cannabis since the early
2000s and legal cannabis for 9 years now. No – the data was sourced from a place that barely legalized medical
cannabis in 2016 and are planning on legalizing cannabis in 2021.

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What this means is that the disproportion of diagnoses in “Marijuana Use Disorder” could very well be “o ”. It’s an
arbitrary de nition by clinicians anyhow;
People are considered dependent on weed when they feel food cravings or a lack of appetite, irritability, restlessness and mood
and sleep di culties after quitting, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Such a wide de nition of symptoms will make virtually anyone who smokes weed “addicted.” When you smoke weed,
you get an extra dose of cannabinoids to the body. When you stop, it’s not there – the body compensates.
But to the scientists at NIDA – this means you’re addicted. I mean, if this was the criteria for being addicted – the entire
planet is addicted to sugar, co ee and a host of other substances on this planet. I’m sure if I would look at suicide rates
or homicide rates for people “addicted to sugar”, I would be able to conclude that “eating sugar increases the risk of
going on murderous rampages”. I would be laughed at for that conclusion – yet when we see studies like this, it’s widely
reported by most media outlets.
The Problem with Retroactive Studies
The major issue I have with this study is that they looked at death certi cates, people who smoke weed, and then
assigned some meaning to their deaths because of a statistical occurrence that had a 5% margin of error.
The major problem with these retroactive studies is the way you frame them. Since NIDA and JAMA Pediatrics are
looking at cannabis via a pathological lens – they were trying to nd the connection between these deaths and mood
disorders.
They weren’t objectively looking to see what happens. They also didn’t see how many suicides cannabis prevented. They
were solely focused on nding whether cannabis contributed to more deaths in a highly niche demographic – young
people with mood disorders.
“Mood disorders” also include a wide range of disorders – which means that the net they casted to correlate this
evidence is wide.

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Finally, one of the biggest issues is the discrepancy is the age group they were studying. They included people from the
ages of 10-24. Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a 10 year old stand next to a 24 year old – but they are entirely
di erent beings.
That would be similar to testing the health conditions of a 50 year old and a 64 year old. Except, the 10-24 di erence is
even more extreme due to things such as puberty.
Why do people kill themselves?
In most cases, trauma is the biggest contributor to suicide. Trauma which turns into depression which could eventually
trigger a psychotic event where someone overwrites their own survival instincts.
The fact that people who commit suicide also smoke weed, does not indicate causation – which again, was the
suggested conclusion of this bogus study.
As I mentioned so many times before – I’m not opposed to actually nding out whether cannabis contributes to these
issues – but I do take issue with the fact that they use poor science to “prove” their hypothesis.
I wish we could Ctrl + Alt + Del our scienti c processes and remove the stain of politics from it. Studies like the one they
published above should be considered criminal.
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