I'm not saying it should be illegal but people who use of marijuana according to studies have links to psychosis.
There's no point trying to act like there's only positive benefits to THC brother
Everybody in the US Is Getting Depressed, CDC Says
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There's no point trying to act like there's only positive benefits to THC brother
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Psychosis and depression are different things.
There are negatives to THC and depending on your body chemistry it may worsen depression. It may also help alleviate it.
- Social media tells you that you are not shyt
- Average workers get shytted on
- Unemployed can't find work despite "now hiring" signs
- Prices are going up
- Government doesn't give a fukk
- Mental health gets treated like an afterthought
- Too many egos because the ones with the egos are hurting internally
- Not enough family gatherings
- Lack of resources
- Movies seem colder
- Nothing seems peaceful
- Lack of public transportation
- Lack of career development
- AI taking over half of the job market
- No one can fulfill their dreams
- Old fukks holding back society
- Young fukks don't want to embrace life outside of social media
- Knowledge is slowly becoming banned
- Nobody is living for the moment
- Long work hours and nothing good to come out of it
- Short work hours and nothing to make of it
- Grind and be a cogwheel, or else fail and be a nobody
- Music artists rather flaunt p*ssy, dikk, drakos, and drugs instead of peace, love, and harmony
- Not enough programming for children to actually have a childhood
- Not enough products for children to embrace a childhood
- If you are not gay, you are a bigot
- If you do not sit down, you will get knocked down
- If you're trying to bring change, you will get assassinated spiritually, mentally, or physically
- Don't even think about leaving the states, BOY!
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someone answer this...
when has life been better for humans?
if you could get in a time machine which era would you go to in order to live better?
in 2023 you have everything at your fingertips...
the collective knowledge of humans is a swipe away
food is plentiful
you can damn near order any woman you want
lose your job?
they have social safety nets
what exactly is so hard about your life?
what are the issues you have that you didnt create yourself?
Wowzer on these stats! 
June 14, 2023
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June 14 (Reuters) - More than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending January 2023, a slight increase from the previous year, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday.
The figure is up 0.7% from 108,825 overdoses recorded in the 12-month period ending January 2022, according to U.S. data.
The increase comes despite a push by President Joe Biden's administration for action to tackle drug addiction and overdoses.
The Biden administration in May imposed sanctions on 17 people and entities based in China and Mexico it accused of enabling production of counterfeit fentanyl-laced pills. Illicit fentanyl has played an outsized role in the U.S. opioid crisis and drug overdoses.
The U.S. drug overdose death toll crossed the 100,000-mark for the first time in 2021, as the COVID pandemic disrupted medical care and increased mental health problems. The effect was exacerbated by the widespread availability of lethal drugs such as fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin and increasingly mixed in with other illegal drugs.
During the pandemic, rates of mental illness, depression and anxiety went up dramatically, and people increasingly began to switch to substances, said Tom Britton, CEO of American Addiction Centers.
U.S. drug overdose deaths rose 13.7% between January 2021 and January 2022 and by 31.4% in the prior 12 months at the height of the pandemic.
But the surge in overdose deaths began before the pandemic took hold due to abuse of prescription opioid painkillers and illegal drugs like heroin.
Synthetic opioids, excl. methadone
Psychostimulants with abuse potential
Cocaine
Natural & semi-synthetic opioids
Heroin
Methadone
Stacey McKenna, senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based independent think tank, said the crackdown on fentanyl and other addictive drugs could be having the opposite of the intended affect.
"There's this iron law of prohibition that the harder you crack down on the supply, the more likely you are to get a more potent supply or a more dangerous supply," McKenna said.
The CDC noted that the latest numbers represent an estimate to include underreporting and cases pending investigation.
(This story has been corrected to say that overdose deaths were up 0.7% from 108,825, not 107,764, for the 12-month period ending January 2022 in paragraph 2)
Reporting by Nandhini Srinivasan and Khushi Mandowara in Bengaluru; editing by Bill Berkrot
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US drug overdose deaths top 109,000 in the past year
By Nandhini Srinivasan and Khushi MandowaraJune 14, 2023
Percentage Change in Fatal Overdose deaths from (Jan 2022 -Jan 2023)
Depicts percentage change in estimated number of fatal overdose deaths from 12-months ended Jan 2022 to 12-months ended Jan 2023 by state
June 14 (Reuters) - More than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending January 2023, a slight increase from the previous year, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday.
The figure is up 0.7% from 108,825 overdoses recorded in the 12-month period ending January 2022, according to U.S. data.
The increase comes despite a push by President Joe Biden's administration for action to tackle drug addiction and overdoses.
The Biden administration in May imposed sanctions on 17 people and entities based in China and Mexico it accused of enabling production of counterfeit fentanyl-laced pills. Illicit fentanyl has played an outsized role in the U.S. opioid crisis and drug overdoses.
The U.S. drug overdose death toll crossed the 100,000-mark for the first time in 2021, as the COVID pandemic disrupted medical care and increased mental health problems. The effect was exacerbated by the widespread availability of lethal drugs such as fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin and increasingly mixed in with other illegal drugs.
During the pandemic, rates of mental illness, depression and anxiety went up dramatically, and people increasingly began to switch to substances, said Tom Britton, CEO of American Addiction Centers.
U.S. drug overdose deaths rose 13.7% between January 2021 and January 2022 and by 31.4% in the prior 12 months at the height of the pandemic.
But the surge in overdose deaths began before the pandemic took hold due to abuse of prescription opioid painkillers and illegal drugs like heroin.
Fatal overdoses in 12 months ended Jan by Drug Class (2015-2023)
National estimates of Fatal overdoses by drug class in the U.S. at the end of January (2015-2023)Synthetic opioids, excl. methadone
Psychostimulants with abuse potential
Cocaine
Natural & semi-synthetic opioids
Heroin
Methadone
Stacey McKenna, senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based independent think tank, said the crackdown on fentanyl and other addictive drugs could be having the opposite of the intended affect.
"There's this iron law of prohibition that the harder you crack down on the supply, the more likely you are to get a more potent supply or a more dangerous supply," McKenna said.
The CDC noted that the latest numbers represent an estimate to include underreporting and cases pending investigation.
(This story has been corrected to say that overdose deaths were up 0.7% from 108,825, not 107,764, for the 12-month period ending January 2022 in paragraph 2)
Reporting by Nandhini Srinivasan and Khushi Mandowara in Bengaluru; editing by Bill Berkrot
US drug overdose deaths top 109,000 in the past year
More than 109,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending January 2023, a slight increase from the previous year, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday.
www.reuters.com
Try alcoholics
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As a nygga that don't understand Depression and NEVER understood it....STILL don't get it...
Bruh,we are living the LIFE!! Here in Tampa Florida, homeless and mentally ill folks riddling the streets...drugs n alcohol...sleepin in a tent...
We blessed and privledge folks out here "Depressed" smh
Bruh,we are living the LIFE!! Here in Tampa Florida, homeless and mentally ill folks riddling the streets...drugs n alcohol...sleepin in a tent...
We blessed and privledge folks out here "Depressed" smh
Scustin Bieburr
Baby baybee baybee UUUGH
It's almost like the price of everything going up, wages stagnating, laws are being passed which revoke peoples rights and benefits. It's almost like even if a person is diagnosed with depression they can't access medicine and therapy because they can't afford it.
Who would've thought that making everything worse would make people depressed. Damn that's crazy.
Who would've thought that making everything worse would make people depressed. Damn that's crazy.
In the last several years maybe a decade I read multiple stories about the USCG and USN unloading tons of yayo in Florida, California and Texas with never ever any info on whom got busted or prosecuted. Some youngsters on the coli don't know about the history of Iran/Contra, Colonel Oliver North-CIA Director/VP George H.W. Bush and government involvement in this trade and how history repeats itself. Lawd forbid they take the time to research Gary Webb and how his investigative journalism work was turned in the Hollywood film 'Kill the Messenger' starring Jeremy Renner.
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MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded over 14,000 pounds of cocaine Friday in Miami, authorities said.
The drugs are worth more than $186 million, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
It was one of the largest drug seizures for the Coast Guard Cutter Bear’s crew.
“The contraband offloaded today represents the professional expertise and dedication of U.S. defense and law enforcement agencies working together to combat the flow of illicit drugs through the Caribbean Region into the United States,” said Lt. Peter Hutchison, duty enforcement officer at Coast Guard District Seven in a news release. “This teamwork is imperative to the identification, interception, and seizure of vessels engaged in illicit trafficking and a testament to the hard work of these crews.”
Along with the illicit narcotics, 12 suspected smugglers were apprehended and face prosecution in federal courts by the Department of Justice, according to authorities.
Authorities have not released any information on the suspects.
www.local10.com
Extra Tight Scene from Miami Vice, and yes I lived in Miami during the Cocaine Cowboy days. It was wild!
Coast Guard offloads over $186 million worth of cocaine in Miami
(@USCGSoutheast)
MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded over 14,000 pounds of cocaine Friday in Miami, authorities said.
The drugs are worth more than $186 million, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.
It was one of the largest drug seizures for the Coast Guard Cutter Bear’s crew.
“The contraband offloaded today represents the professional expertise and dedication of U.S. defense and law enforcement agencies working together to combat the flow of illicit drugs through the Caribbean Region into the United States,” said Lt. Peter Hutchison, duty enforcement officer at Coast Guard District Seven in a news release. “This teamwork is imperative to the identification, interception, and seizure of vessels engaged in illicit trafficking and a testament to the hard work of these crews.”
Along with the illicit narcotics, 12 suspected smugglers were apprehended and face prosecution in federal courts by the Department of Justice, according to authorities.
Authorities have not released any information on the suspects.
Coast Guard offloads over $186 million worth of cocaine in Miami
The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded over 14,000 pounds of cocaine Friday in Miami, authorities said.
www.local10.com
Extra Tight Scene from Miami Vice, and yes I lived in Miami during the Cocaine Cowboy days. It was wild!
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