Tea Leaf Reading on St. Benitez Timing????

[WithinReason]

Originally Posted by AlmostHeaven

I see your point and agree that marijuana usage contributes, but I believe without education institution indoctrination, mass media propaganda, and online community hysteria, weed alone would not have created our present circumstances.

A convergence of a variety of negative factors...

[swamp2]

Originally Posted by rplaw

...I believe that weed also plays a huge part in what's happening because studies have shown that weed increases paranoia and schizophrenia. ...

If sounds to me like you have little to no idea about the relationship between marijuana use and paranoia. Similarly, it seems you don't understand the crucial difference between paranoia and schizophrenia. To be honest the entire post sounds like tinfoil hat speculation.

I suppose the boredom and anxiety here on the actual topic can/does lead us pretty far off topic.

[tenemae]

Originally Posted by rplaw

I believe that weed also plays a huge part in what's happening because studies have shown that weed increases paranoia and schizophrenia. <-- yes that's the same diagnostic description where you'd look to find delusional disorders. Weird how things work like that.

Carl Sagan: Famous for his paranoid schizophrenia

[Sgt Raven]

Just because you're paranoid does not mean, no one is out to get you.

[Bhobbs]

Can we at least keep this threads remotely related to the 4 Benitez cases?

[Go Navy]

Originally Posted by rplaw

This is too far OT but if you look in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistics Manual), which is the go-to for mental illness, under Schizophrenia you will find delusional disorders. Read the definition (which you can also find via a goofball search) and then consider how LBGT, trans, and "woke" fit in there.

At that point you will begin to realize how far gone our society actually is. And then you start to wonder how this could have been done en mass. Unlike most I believe that it's not just indoctrination of the young, it's more than that. I believe that weed also plays a huge part in what's happening because studies have shown that weed increases paranoia and schizophrenia. <-- yes that's the same diagnostic description where you'd look to find delusional disorders. Weird how things work like that.

What we need is a public awareness campaign which shows the actual facts. The problem is that the entire system is rigged to support the problem instead of the solution. "Everyone does it" and then those people use their bully pulpits to support legalization and spreading the cheer. Which leads to more rampant paranoia/schizophrenia which leads to more "woke" and delusion in ever increasing population cross section.

Until you end up where we are today - most of the population clinically insane and running the world.

One of my closest friends is a Prof. Emeritus of Pysch from a major university, and he is politically liberal. He has informed me that solid research has proven that marijuana causes alterations to the brain. It should not be legalized. And now Sacramento is legalizing certain psychedelic mushrooms. Yet at the same time, we have an enormous homeless problem, much of which is due to mental illness.

[rplaw]

Originally Posted by swamp2

If sounds to me like you have little to no idea about the relationship between marijuana use and paranoia. Similarly, it seems you don't understand the crucial difference between paranoia and schizophrenia. To be honest the entire post sounds like tinfoil hat speculation.

I suppose the boredom and anxiety here on the actual topic can/does lead us pretty far off topic.

I do not defend or support the use of illicit narcotics. Not now, not ever. If someone wants to put something into their body to try and block out reality because it makes them believe they can be happier that way, go for it. Just don't ever expect me to defend or support them doing it. That lack of support extends to expecting me to intervene in an emergency. IMO, they did it to themselves and should suffer the consequences. Just like I have to when I misbehave.

As for the relationship to paranoia, there are published studies which make that connection. I didn't author the studies, I am only relying on the experts to tell me what is happening in their field of expertise. If those experts say there's a connection between MJ and paranoia, and they have the statistics to back that up, I'm going to believe them.

You should too.

[JiuJitsu]

Going back to the tea leaf reading. It?s nearly Fall. I never thought I would be sitting here waiting still for the first decision to drop from Benitez. All of the big cases for gun rights seem to move glacially slow.

[ritter]

Originally Posted by JiuJitsu

Going back to the tea leaf reading. It?s nearly Fall. I never thought I would be sitting here waiting still for the first decision to drop from Benitez. All of the big cases for gun rights seem to move glacially slow.

Same. I was initially hopeful it would be a few months after Bruen that we'd get some relief. Nope!

Turns out, it's going to be years.

[swamp2]

Originally Posted by rplaw

I do not defend or support the use of illicit narcotics. Not now, not ever. If someone wants to put something into their body to try and block out reality because it makes them believe they can be happier that way, go for it. Just don't ever expect me to defend or support them doing it. That lack of support extends to expecting me to intervene in an emergency. IMO, they did it to themselves and should suffer the consequences. Just like I have to when I misbehave.

As for the relationship to paranoia, there are published studies which make that connection. I didn't author the studies, I am only relying on the experts to tell me what is happening in their field of expertise. If those experts say there's a connection between MJ and paranoia, and they have the statistics to back that up, I'm going to believe them.

You should too.

Mostly doubly off topic...

Marijuana is not a narcotic. Wow....

One must also dig past a headline to understand issues. Low probability and temporal effects under very high dose is not equivalent to a permanent effect and alteration.

Nicotine and alcohol cause almost immeasurableably more personal, societal and financial harm than marijuana.

[DolphinFan]

Justice delayed is Justice denied.
Perhaps we need a ballot initiative, The Judicial Speedy Decision after Trial Act.
I propose NO Judge should require more than 3 months, 90 days to release a decision.

SPEEDY TRIAL ACT OF 1974 - DEFINING THE SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHT. THE SPEEDY TRIAL ACT OF 1974 MANDATES THAT, BY 1980, THE PERIOD OF DELAY IN ALL FEDERAL AND DISTRICT COURTS SHALL NOT EXCEED 100 DAYS, SUBJECT TO A VARIETY OF EXCLUDABLE PERIODS OF DELAY.

Benetiz should have released his decision by now. It?s been well over 100 days