Marijuana Is More Dangerous Than Biden’s HHS Lets On
Bryn Spejcher, 32, of Thousands Oaks, Calif., was convicted last month of killing her boyfriend in May 2018. According to prosecutors, she stabbed Chad O’Melia 108 times with a kitchen knife. She also stabbed herself and her dog.
When police showed up, she was screaming hysterically. Ms. Spejcher, an audiologist at UCLA Health, had no history of mental illness.
Yet after psychologists diagnosed her with “cannabis-induced psychosis," prosecutors downgraded charges from murder to involuntary manslaughter. Healthcare practitioners report increasing numbers of young people with psychotic reactions from marijuana. Such breaks are more likely with chronic use, though one scientific review found nearly 1 in 5 users reported hallucinations or visions, and more than half experienced paranoia, after using the drug.
Yet the Health and Human Services Department brushes past marijuana’s potential for inducing psychosis in its review, published Jan. 12, that supported moving marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to the less restrictive Schedule III. If you needed more evidence that Biden administration health officials don’t follow the science, here it is.
Schedule I drugs are those with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. Examples include heroin, ecstasy and peyote. Schedule III drugs have a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.
They include Tylenol with codeine, testosterone and other anabolic steroids. HHS concludes that “the risks to the public health posed by marijuana are lower compared to other drugs of abuse" based on data of hospitalizations, emergency-room visits and overdose deaths. It’s true, smoking weed is unlikely to cause sudden death.
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