David Frum goes WAY off the deep end

via Truthdig:



David Frum Blames AZ Shooting on Reefer Madness
Posted on Jan 12, 2011


The former Bush speechwriter who coined the term “Axis of Evil” claims a link between Jared Loughner, schizophrenia and pot smoking. Forget guns, “The Tucson shooting should remind us why we regulate marijuana.”

Much of our culture’s historic intolerance of marijuana grew out of racism and the quack science used to justify it. Frum acknowledges in his blog post that “The connection between marijuana and schizophrenia is both controversial and complicated.” But, he writes, “The raw association is strong.” That’s like saying “I can’t prove anything conclusively, but I’ve got a gut feeling.”

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 42.6 percent of Americans have consumed marijuana by the time they graduate high school. If Frum is correct, we’re going to have a lot more dangerous schizophrenics to deal with. Perhaps we should get on top of the situation by drastically increasing funding for mental health services and amending the Constitution to ban guns.

Whether pot makes you crazy, lazy or fat, you can’t shoot someone without a gun. —PZS




http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/david_frum_blames_az_shooting_on_reefer_madness_20110112/

It's a sign of guilt held in common.

In fact, his friends noticed he started getting weirder after he stopped using.

See this post: After Loughner apparently gave up drugs and booze, "his theories got worse," Tierney says.

and of those, how many were drug and/or alcohol related.

the head British pharmacologist stated, JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, that there is no threat to the general population for mental illness from the use of marijuana.

he said that there may be some risk among an ALREADY at risk population (i.e. people who have family members with a history of schizophrenia) if they use marijuana, and we need to make sure people who may be part of that small group are aware of a possible increased risk.

A huge study looked at ALL studies of schizophrenia, intakes at hospitals in Great Britain, and mapped that alongside the increase in marijuana use and found NO CORRELATION between marijuana and schizophrenia.

The top British pharmacologist knew of this study as well and it was part of the basis for his statement - as well as his experience as the top researcher in the field of pharmaceutical use of marijuana in the UK.

Frum appears to be using this tragedy as a propaganda op - which is pretty sad on his part. I would hope he wouldn't make such remarks while choosing to remain ignorant about the research - so I'm just assuming it's propaganda as usual.

Dangerously delusional and an extreme narcissist, maybe. But Schizophrenia? They don't exactly walk around undiagnosed for long.

That's right, the evil weed, that's been around forever, is to blame. How convenient.

Osler said he started to see a change in Jared Loughner after a high school sweetheart broke up with him. After that, Osler said Loughner became increasingly angry and started abusing alcohol, drugs and the legal herbal hallucinogen called Salvia.

"He would say he would be using it, and talk about what it would do to him, and I would say 'dude, that's, that's screwed up,'" said Osler.

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/tucson/loughner's-high-school-friend-says-he-was-mad-at-the-world

It's a good thing we regulate Salvia! Oh, wait. We don't.

Frum is an idiot.

Many people use weed and are fine. But, for those poor people who are genetically predisposed (and of course, don't know it), marijuana is a disaster for them.

Today's marijuana is also extremely strong (the THC content) compared to the weed of several decades ago.

Shouldn't do anything that is "diassociative."--praying with fervor, meditating, smoking pot, tracking dreams, etc. I know someone who got in trouble just by going to a prayer group. I know someone who got in trouble using pot. This guy was living in his head, his dream world, doing lucid dreaming, etc. That probably did as much damage as smoking pot. One person's medicine is another person's downfall. Lucid dreaming is helpful for most people, but not those at risk for schizophrenia.

That's interesting (& scary) to know!

Quote from Annie Hall...

That is all.

Followed by British Columbia and Hawaii! Seems like every week that demon weed drives another hippie crazy and bloodshed reigns! Humboldt State University is like a battle ground!

Frum's stupidity and tool-ness knows no bounds.

Way too uptight.