That is what I said at the beginning , this is a good drug that have been use successfully for many years, but is extremely dangerous because it toxicity, because I work in a stand alone mental hospital we deal with the chronic, with those that have unsuccessful treatments with many other drugs, because their toxicity these medications are not for everyone, now to the shakes: caffeine like nicotine and alcohol gives people the shakes because it acts on the CNS, that is why people on meds that do, are also prescribe other medication to counteract this side-effects. The chronic Schizophrenic is treated with another oldie, Clozapine and the main problem is that is also highly toxic, thus we encourage our patients to abstain from using these drugs or marijuana in addition to their treatment, but to say that is quite understandable that the mentally ill uses it because it help them to cope, is unacceptable, now going back to the beginning: what we are debating is this “It seems the US would be better off regulating this marijuana trafficking. By legalizing marijuana, the US could tax the buyer (like cigarettes).I find this idea repugnant and have argue those that mask this aberrations as having a plethora of medicinal uses, even that it help the mentally ill, that marijuana addict are responsible people, no one goes bonkers under the influence of this drug, they just get funnier and sexy’
Lithium is such good drug, so effective that doctors treat it side-effects so that people can use it, but as I said it doesn’t work on some people. I have also said that the solution is education of our youth, but as you can see it is not easy task, the information put out by the proponent of legalization are seductive in extreme, it is mostly false but seductive, the monetary win-fall promised is a good example, it is presented as great savings, but the cost of policing it sell and distribution is hidden, it is as is generally the case in the US; it's presented as a right, a constitutional right, what decides it for me is that it is a drug that alters the normal thought process and impairs judgement, the fact that there are user of these of stuff that have responsible position in our societies makes it imperative that it is rigorously police and limitations on the recovery time be imposed, politician should be drug screened, and also doctors, judges, pilots etc, before they are allow to discharge the obligations of their higher office. Drivers and machine operators should be included, can you calculate the cost of protecting our societies? My counsel to you and anybody in treatment for a mental illness is, stay away from drugs that affect the CNS, it contraindicated, for the time been we will campaign against it legalization and try to stamp out the error of the past.
