'Pot-heads' filling our hospital wards

[AB Asks]

Mental hospital admissions due to cannabis use have increased by 85% under Labour. Over the last five years there has been a 65% rise and this is said to only be the tip of the iceberg. Cannabis is one of the most commonly used drugs and can cause severe mental problems. People often see it as a soft and relatively harmless drug. What do you think? How can we stop people using this drug?

[alfayeds-spy]

You can't stop people from doing anything, you can only limit the ways in which they can get their hands on them. Which of course makes no difference either. I think the drug should be legalised.

[fine,thanks]

may it be a coincidence that some people who have genuine mental illnesses also use cannabis, im sure there are countless people who use this drug who have no mental health problems, like everything else in life abuse of any substance will be a problem

[Skreecheeboy]

I think it's a cause and effect issue and I would counter your question with the question, how many of these people would have been admitted anyway had they not tried cannabis? I think that cannabis accentuates mental ill health but I think it would be folly to label cannabis as the sole reason people have ended up being admitted to a hospital for a psychotic episode and would suggest that perhaps the majority of people that were admitted had tried cannabis as a way of self medicating on their way down to having such episodes. Problems with mental ill health don't just spring up over night and they can have many wide and varied triggers, cannabis using being only one.

[legend758duo]

WELL IF YOU STOPPED FOLK USING HASH THERED BE HARDLY ANY USERS ON AB .
AS THE MAjority have said they partake of it.
seems the claims that it does you no harm were drug induced fantasies.
i think you need to realise it is a dangerous drug.
hence the schizophrenia that it helps to cause .
also the mmod swings .

[legend758duo]

i did see mention on sky news there is a direct link to cannabis use and growing mental health problem.
debate away but the facts are there.
drugs are for mugs.

[ELVIS68]

This says it all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSmNuHQzlYg

[legend758duo]

devils in the backyard frying his brain.

exactly.

like half the junkies on here.

smoke your brains away.

[stewey]

Perhaps 'Body & Soul' is a mini mental hospital all to itself. The same patients seem to be applying for re-admission all the time!

[legend758duo]

have a smoke and reeeelax eh??

[fine,thanks]

excellent elvis.

[legend758duo]

its the dope mannnnnnnnnnn


its good for youuuuuuuuuuuuuu


my friend schizo dave says he and himself dont think theres anything wrong with a wee joint.

[ELVIS68]

legend, just tell everyone on here that you like a spliff now and then...if that don`t put no-one off, nothing will :o)

[legend758duo]

aye elvis its ok to do it .
unless legend does then yuo better get a rope round up your kin folk .

CAUSE WERE HAVIN A LYNCHIN FOLKS



yyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hhhaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

[nat_84]

My neighbour has just been allowed out of a mental hospital which i beleive the police put him in (due to smoking "skunk").

He was a regular user of cannabis and i wrote a few questions about him on here.

His mother tells mine he's getting back on track since leaving and no longer smokes the stuff... but whether that continues i have no idea.

[stewey]

Smoking is bad for you and the people in your general vicinity................eat the bloody stuff!

[legend758duo]

hes obviously the exception according to the intelligenci on ab.

seriously i believe you nat.its a disgrace some folk talk utter rubbish to justify being a junkie.

[Skreecheeboy]

I thought you said he was smoking crack Nat? Anyway, if you smoke weed everyday you're just asking for trouble, it's a cry for help. Constantly drink everyday and you'll end up the same, your body soon gets sick from exessively putting any kind of substance into it.

[Skreecheeboy]

Forgot to say that what I just posted is common sense, but unfortunately it's something the younger generations are lacking as they have never been taught common sense approaches to drugs, it's always evil and wrong. Look at the crap Legend and Laurance talk about it, moderation not condemnation is what's needed.