I have a scientific job, and I am confronted with statistics every day.
I am not perfect in probability or statistics.
The problem with such topics is always, where is my personal limit?
When one human dies among 10 vaccinated, or only at 1 in a million?
One person is of course one person too many. But that is the problem with statistics.
Statistics is emotionless. If the own mother dies after the vaccination it burdens me more,
than if some person dies 1000km away. Of course there will be people
who die because of the vaccination. But there are also people
who die from an infection just because they pulled a hair out of their nose.
What I always notice in these discussions is the Dunning Kruger effect.
If you don't know what this is, please read it yourself.
Here is a listing of cannabis effects.
I put this here because one of the writers here,
who is against vaccination, mentioned that he takes cannabis daily.
Possibly this explains some things.
Cannabis affects the body and psyche. Which effects and side effects occur depends on various factors. Among the most important are the duration of use, the dose, but also the habituation to cannabis.
In addition, there are individual aspects: The dose required for the psychoactive effect of cannabis to occur differs from person to person. Drugs with the active ingredients dronabinol, nabilone or THC can lead to the same side effects.
Even if the effects of cannabis as a drug and cannabis as a medicine are basically the same, findings can nevertheless not be transferred without further ado. This is due to the proportion of cannabinoids as well as the issue of regulated use. In addition, the use of cannabis as a drug is often associated with the use of other illicit drugs and legal addictive substances such as alcohol and nicotine.
A distinction is made between acute side effects and those that can occur after long-term use. All acute adverse effects generally pass within hours to one to three days without specific therapy.
Acute side effects
The effects of cannabis are predominantly experienced as pleasant and relaxing. Perception changes, pain sensitivity decreases, and an increased sense of well-being ("high" feeling) occurs. However, the feeling can also give way to negative sensations.
Acute side effects of cannabis include moodiness to depression, anxiety or panic, hallucinations, or a sense of loss of control. In addition, the acute psychoactive effects of cannabinoids may cause memory impairment, decreased psychomotor or cognitive performance, and impaired perception of temporal processes. Typical after cannabis use are, for example, impaired thinking, which manifests itself primarily in ideational thinking.
Common physical side effects of cannabinoids include fatigue, dizziness, tachycardia (rapid heartbeat), hypotension, dry mouth, slurred speech, reduced lacrimation, muscle relaxation, and increased appetite. Rare adverse side effects also include nausea and headache.
The effect of cannabinoids on blood vessels may increase the risk of heart attack in pre-stressed individuals. In individual cases, cardiac ischemia or heart attacks have occurred after cannabis use.
However, life-threatening complications or even deaths following medical use of cannabis have not been reported to date. There have also been no deaths following cannabis intoxication.
Side effects after long-term use
After a prolonged use of cannabis - even within weeks, sometimes even days - a so-called tolerance usually develops.
The effects on the psyche, the impairment of psychomotor function or the effects on the cardiovascular system decrease. The effects on the endocrine system, intraocular pressure or against nausea also decrease. This development of tolerance is one reason why cannabis can be addictive. Those who consume cannabis in very high quantities over a long period of time run the risk of becoming psychologically dependent.
This may be insignificant during therapy for a serious illness, but withdrawal symptoms are still problematic. How intense withdrawal symptoms are depends on the duration of use. They are similar to those that occur when someone suddenly stops smoking. These include insomnia, restlessness, irritability, decreased appetite, salivation, increased perspiration or diarrhea.
Risk of cannabis psychosis
In rare cases, schizophrenic psychosis can occur after long-term cannabis use. This is undoubtedly among the most serious side effects and affects people who have a predisposition to such mental disorders. Cannabis can therefore lead to a schizophrenic illness being triggered or a psychosis breaking out earlier.
This "cannabis psychosis" has been known for a long time. Current data suggest that cannabis use may double the risk of schizophrenia in adults. When used therapeutically, such disorders, as well as the development of dependence, have rarely been observed.
Cannabinoids can also affect male and female sex hormones. In women, cycles without ovulation have been described in individual cases, in men an impairment of sperm formation.
Further consequences of long-term use of medical cannabis cannot yet be assessed on the basis of current studies.