My husband won’t stop smoking pot in our home

This column was forwarded to me from Canada’s Globe & Mail.  It’s from an advice column where a woman complains about her husband who won’t stop smoking pot in the home.  She’s tried showing him all the (reefer madness) health reports on cannabis, but he just won’t stop.  This paragraph is the one that made me laugh:

globeandmail.com: My husband won’t stop smoking pot in our home
When it comes to the health detriments and/or benefits of marijuana, there’s always been a thick wall of smoke dividing those on the pro side and those on the con. Pamela Stewart, a psychiatrist who works at Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, says your concerns about your chronic condition and your children’s pink lungs are founded. “The problem is the tar,” she explains. “It’s a respiratory contaminant, and raises your risk for a respiratory disorder.”

She adds that cannabis these days is 20 to 400 times more potent than it was back in the day and is therefore more addictive and the withdrawal is worse. If that weren’t enough, she says that kids whose parents smoke are more likely to take it up themselves and that “cannabis introduced early in adolescence is a risk factor for schizophrenia.” How’s that for a good whack of ammo against your hubby?

Congratulations, Ms. Stewart!  You’ve just discovered a cannabis strain that is 1600% THC!  (Now where can I get some?)  As we’ve debunked many times before, marijuana today may be at best twice as potent.  Seizures of marijuana in the past were around 4% THC and now they can get as good as 8% THC.  Marijuana is not addictive in any serious gotta-go-to-detox meaning of the word.  THC helps combat the effects of tar on the lungs, and marijuana can be vaporized or eaten to avoid even that effect.  Finally, the cannabis / schizophrenia link in young teens is more pseudoscience that has yet to be proven.