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Well, that's all for the banter today.
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We're gonna dive right into the stories first up apparently.
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there's more teens using the devil's lettuce marijuana motta,
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whatever you wanna call it.
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And they're actually suffering from psychosis.
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Well, let me know what psychosis is because I have no
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clue. You're lucky because I also wasn't too sure.
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So I googled it prior and apparently it's actually a mental disorder
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characterized by this connection from reality you partake in.
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Well, that actually happened to me the first time I smoked
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weed and were you a teen?
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So there is again some truth here,
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but we're actually gonna go,
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go down the the article and get to the points.
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So, yes, some more potent cannabis and more frequent use
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are contributing to higher rates of psychosis,
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especially in young people.
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A study published by the National Institute on drug abuse concluded the
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following that cannabis might speed up the arrival of psychotic disorders like
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schizophrenia. And if you've got a family history of other
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risk factors, it's like adding fuel to the fire and it
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turns out those who had to use cannabis daily has significantly higher
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odds of having a psychotic disorder.
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I mean, I can totally see that happening because I only
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did it like, once and I got weird after that.
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There's no way I feel like I had like a psychotic breakdown
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when I do. It was crazy.
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I thought my hands were on my lab and I put them
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up and they were still in my lab and it was,
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I was just like this,
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I was just doing this.
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My hands are still on my lap but they're up here.
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It's crazy. I can see the psycho the psychosis that you
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I get weird. The more high potency cannabis use,
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the higher the incident rates of psychosis.
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Oh That is a blunt oh,
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the average amount of THC Yeah,
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from 90 1995 to 2023.
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As you can tell by this visual here has significantly increased.
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So we actually have Edwin Sparks dialing in today.
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Edwin, can you hear?
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What's up? Nice to meet you.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to join us today
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I'm not sure if you caught any of our conversation
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but we were talking Oh OK.
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it is interesting. And I know that you're you
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know, an influencer in the space of,
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of cannabis use and stuff like that.
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So we kinda wanted to get your input on this conversation
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that we were having about,
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you know, the psychosis,
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what are your thoughts?
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There's too many like variables to really like put a measurement on
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this. A perfect example is people can experience psychosis never doing
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a substance in their life.
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PTSD, they can go to war,
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being in a fire and lose a dog,
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et cetera, et cetera.
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So I don't think there's a correct way or variable to
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measure this. I will say.
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However, with stronger THC there are definitely higher chances leading
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up to that, especially with misinformation and peer pressuring
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I think that's where the real issue is where friends call
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you like b you know,
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I don't wanna say bad words or whatever.
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You're a B if you don't get it or whatever,
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but if we take this substance like cannabis and we compare
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it to alcohol. If it's your first time drinking,
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you're not gonna wanna drink fucking like 30 bottles or whatever.
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So it's your first time smoking.
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You shouldn't be smoking so much.
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If it's your first time eating an edible,
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you shouldn't be eating so much.
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And there's actually on the packaging,
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it says how much you should eat.
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Nobody reads it. I didn't read it and I've done my
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fair share of ruining cannabis for a lot of people.
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But now that I'm in this space,
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I'm just trying to do what I believe is my job
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and just teach people,
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Yeah. So I guess it's kind of like,
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again, like portion control,
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Like you don't wanna start off like at the,
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I don't know if it's a crazy number 500 mg of an
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edible. And it's like,
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you're going 0 to 100 literally really,
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really quick. Shout out Drake.
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Do you think maybe this is kind of like a,
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a situation where our parents or adults out there that kinda are
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looking for something to blame this bigger problem on.
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And they're like, oh it's,
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it's the weed because again,
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I, I've heard of other stories where people are,
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they, they consume marijuana,
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whether it be THC or CBD,
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health reasons and it helps.
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It's not always again,
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the negative side of things.
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I'm a what I consider realist and I see both sides.
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Yes, people are abusing it and overdo it and it's leading
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to these issues. But there's a whole part that like nobody
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overlooks and it's just like,
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oh, let's just blame this,
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let's blame that. But,
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and we could look in her and see like,
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did we take the proper precautions to taking the substance?
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It's a fucking substance like,
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you know, when you get your medicine from a doctor,
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you get like a whole booklet of side effects.
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This in a way has some side effects.
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And we just need to educate ourselves more,
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we need to have more people educated,
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we need to stop peer pressuring people.
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because this is how we end up with people who have
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psychosis. This is how we end up with people who never
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want to do something like this again.
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And the benefits are there.
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But there are two sides to the coin.
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How would you recommend people get some kind of education on this
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Whether it be like a website or going to a dispensary
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That's like just asking questions.
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What do you think if they do wanna,
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you know, partake in this recreational use of marijuana?
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I think simply Google,
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if you're at the dispensary,
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you mentioned 500 mg.
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I don't know if you know what the correct or the the
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dose is. but the dose is 10 mg.
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So essentially you're like what,
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500% more than the dose in inside.
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But who tells you that?
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Right? Nobody tells you that,
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you know, you get the brownie eat half of it,
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So I would just say literally ask people Google it.
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ask your BT Tender at the store.
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I do overconsumption videos.
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You guys can check me out.
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I do it. So you guys don't have to,
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you know, so I'll take 1000 mg just you,
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you just get to watch it instead of actually have to take
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it., but that would be the best way just
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you have a phone Google,
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the answers are right there.
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You just gotta look for them.
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Ok? We're actually gonna put up your video really quick.
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So we'll figure it out with you.
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Let's get it. I know I want to get into it
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Yeah. Talking about over consumption.
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This is something you guys definitely don't want to do it.
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That is 10 pens and when you hit it for enough seconds
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it'll power out its battery making alike,
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which is the maximum hit you can get.
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You disappear for a moment.
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Yeah, you couldn't see.
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What is that? the Benjamin what brand do you
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use? If you don't mind me asking,
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asking for all sorts of brands,
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dizzy plug play. I work with basically every brand in
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the game. and they're all good if they're legal,
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that means they have to be tested clean a bunch of things
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I mean, I'm glad we got to watch that with you
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but again, thank you so much for joining.
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We'll plug your socials here.
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Thank you. Thank you for having me.
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Oh, yeah, thank you.
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I didn't expect that.
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Like again he disappeared.
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It was like a magician and for my next trip I'll disappear
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and then he literally disappeared.
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He's like, I'm done,
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