They cite one such study right there in the article, and there are others: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38775165/
This isn't new information either, the experience I related above was a decade ago, and the impact of weed on people prone to psychotic disorders was already well known to the medical community at that time.
Substance-insuced psychosis (psychotic symptoms while you're intoxicated) is a different diagnosis than a psychotic episode. That psychotic symptoms are not due to substance intoxication is actually one of the criteria of a psychotic episode. What I'm talking about are people for whom weed can trigger a psychotic episode that doesn't go away after the high wears off.
I worked inpatient psych for a long time, and can tell you first-hand the link between psychosis and cannabis is real. No, this does not mean "if you smoke weed you're going to get psychotic!" What it does mean is that if you're someone with a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia (e.g. you have a known family history) weed is a potential trigger for a psychotic episode. If someone has already developed schizophrenia, smoking weed can make their symptoms worse and more difficult to manage with medications.
80% of people coming through the psych hospital, whatever, I don't care if you smoke weed. Honestly, I wish people would smoke weed rather than use meth, K2, or a bunch of other drugs that fuck people up. But for that subset of people prone to psychotic episodes, the conversation centers around "some people can smoke weed and be fine, and you are not one of those people."
The most common ages for men to develop first episode psychosis are 18-25, and while it's dumb that this article focuses on teenagers, the risk in that age group is genuinely higher. This article really is dumb overall and does not explain any of this well
I think it's because they mentioned trees improve air quality right there in their comment, and then you responded like you didn't read it
I don't think metric will ever overtake customary units for distance in common usage in the US. The length of an inch, foot, and mile are burned into our public consciousness. Products come standard at discrete lengths defined in feet, like lumber being sold in lengths of 8, 10, or 12 feet. Our entire infrastructure is built around these lengths. Cars have both mph and kph on their speedometers, but no one ever looks at the kph. We'd have to change every speed limit sign in the whole country, as well as every highway mile marker and all the distance signs.
I feel like in the US we already encounter Celsius on a regular basis though, and it would be easier to drop Farenheit if we wanted to.
Rather than bend to Trump's will, yes. The US can wield significant influence globally when its power is exerted skillfully, but everyone knows Trump's decision-making is capricious and inconsistent, so they treat him as an unreliable partner. They know whatever agreement they come to with him could be thrown away the next day, so they just aren't going to negotiate anymore
We can traverse space because it's space. Everything in the universe can traverse space. Similarly, the entire universe experiences time in only one direction. Time and space are the same thing. The movie Arrival is fiction and has nothing to do with the physics here
Humans perceive time...
Isn't one of those dimensions time? There do be time in chess
It's streaming on Pandora. I suspect the issue has more to do with Spotify than Spotify lets on in this press release
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job
Alcohol can make you feel like shit and can do great damage if used too often, but meth and K2 can fuck someone's brain up after even one use due to lack of quality control