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Promoting cannabis and banning Ivermectin are the biggest crimes against our Nation.

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Agree with you on cannabis but not on the potential gaslighting of our youth and their health issues. We have no idea the totality of what’s been done to them - -everything from GMOs being adopted in the 90s to one of the most aggressive pediatric vaccine schedules in the world. Top that off with disconnected families; it’s a wonder most of them function.

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Wow! This was really informative. I am a recently retired pediatric pulmonologist who always had an interest and intuitive feel for the somatoform dimensions of disease. It is interesting how this "spoonie" phenomenon parallels the transgender craze. To me, there is an awful yearning deep in the heart of these troubled adolescent and young adult females. I think that there is a great spiritual need for connection to something greater than themselves and they are looking in all the wrong places. Both groups are getting affirmation via social media. We need perspectives like this from members of the generation with wise perspectives. These kinds of patients are a huge challenge for physicians, who often find it more comfortable to prescribe pharmaceuticals and add to the list of soft diagnoses.

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It is a great piece and a fascinating glimpse - also the anecdote about the parent who TOOK AWAY THE PHONE and that mysteriously healed to young woman of many of her symptoms. It's the old anorexia crisis on steroids - or, rather, medical grade steroid treatment. Just remember, the Big Pharma has a particularly insidious problem of conflict of interest, much like our modern "education" system.

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As grandma used to say, "you can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning."

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Stomach problems and "chronic fatigue" are often just poor diet. Doctors receive very little training in nutrition, and are the wrong people to ask. Even nutritionists are usually just priests for the current orthodoxies established by misrepresented or misunderstood analysis. We really need to fix medical practice. The covid disaster was just a symptom of the underlying malpractice.

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Most teenagers/20-somethings need a iPhone-ectomy.

A dose of tough love wouldn't hurt either.

True Story:

I had three female 20-somethings working for me. Over three months, I noticed each one called in "sick" at about the same time each month. I bought three packets of Midol and called them into my office. I handed each one a packet of Midol and said, "Here. Look at my calendar," on which I noted the pattern. Then I started:

"We're NOT going to do this. Your menstrual cycle is NOT a 'get-out-of-work-free' card. I don't want to HEAR about 'cramps.'

"Like you, my grandmothers were immigrants. They didn't have 'cramps.' One grandmother, a widow with two small children and no high school diploma, worked in a woolen mill. If she didn't go to work, she didn't get paid. Your grandmothers were farm workers and house maids. If they didn't go to work, they didn't get paid. Eventually, they all had a bunch of kids--and mountains of laundry, meals to prepare--all without the many modern conveniences available today. I am 100 percent certain they did NOT have 'cramps' because they had responsibilities. YOU have responsibilities.

"You will have menstrual cycles for the next 20-25-30 years. GET OVER IT!"

Y'know what? I CURED 'cramps.'

A little less attention and NO iPhone is likely to go a long way toward curing these self-absorbed adolescents.

Harsh? Yep. But I'm pretty certain that a lot of kids need a strong dose of HARSH.

Or a kick in the ass.

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The young girls have Need Attentionitis:

“On Instagram, whenever I would post a picture of me looking sad, or with pills in my hand, or in a wheelchair, it would get like 2,000 likes.” Pictures of Cooper smiling would get about 100.”

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Such people have always been with us. The difference is they weren't encouraged by the news media and its pharma sponsors to nurture hypochondria. They also weren't sold the bill of goods that smoking high-powered, THC-heavy strains of cannabis is therapeutic.

That said, please learn the difference between smoking high-THC cannabis and CBD consumed orally and externally. It would be tragic to give pharma a means to eliminate this competition.

Also I agree with AM. Young people are sicker than previous generations and that's quantifiable.

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I saw that earlier and what it reminded me of eating disorders. Control. Social media has made it 1000x worse. In college, I was a peer counselor and I distinctly remember the day that a group of women brought in their roommate who was bulimic. Her peers were very worried, described her behavior. The bulimic woman might as well have been on Mars.

I am not saying she didn't have a problem, because obviously she did, but looking back, I can see an element of subtle manipulation. When you read today's piece, it rings familiar - except the ante has been upped for a new generation.

This ain't your mom's issue. Social media makes it 1000x worse. (Isn't it interesting that none of these sites/posts are censored???)

I realize my sarcasm may come across as uncaring, but I had a flash of anger when I read the stomach tube part. I lost a friend to ALS several years ago and I remember when he got his stomach tube and 'feeding' him. The fact someone feels a need to have 'likes' for this sort of thing is disgusting, because J would have given anything to share a bite of his favorite pizza with his family without it first being pureed into baby food. The absolute best thing that mother did for her daughter was to take away the damn phone.

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Thanks! We took in a girl, the daughter of my wife’s best friend. Her parents were both killed by Pfizer in April and then July of 2021. You can read about it here

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pfizer-covid-vaccine-safety-varies-from-lot-to-lot_4467336.html

She’s 17 and has started using marijuana. It’s a horrible situation. It’s Almost impossible to address this usage with her. My world view is that the state wants you sick, stupid and just barely viable enough to produce either enough value to steal from or so unless you give the state a reason to exist. She’s heading for the latter of those options. I’m no longer sure which path is better.

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I'm in Phoenix for a few days. They have street people baking on the 110F streets very near the "Weed" shops and they look stoned as hell. There's "free weed Fridays" at one shop. Just what homeless people need. I'd like to see a study of cause and effect, legalization of loco weed and deaths of homeless guys on the streets.

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And let's not forget pharma has been pumping them with mood-altering and sickening drugs by the containership load full for over two decades now (See Xanax)

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Why Berenson takes the opportunity to attack this sickly person who is not eating healthy (pretzels for breakfast? but you didn't touch on that) who finds solace and solution for some problem by ingesting a thing that will not kill them allowing them to get by is kind of gross. Udo writes about hemp oil but let's ignore that.

Your further uninformed correlating of wheelchair-boundedness to cannabis use is hilarious.

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Man, sometimes you can be such an insensitive a-hole. Do you know how the medical field normally treats women's issues? Tells them they must simply have anxiety or depression, or it's all in their head. When I go to the doctor's with real medical concerns, I'm told to drink more water. When I take my children in for issues, I'm sent home with nothing more than parenting advice.

When millions of women said 'hey this shot is screwing with my menstrual cycle' they were brushed off with claims of stress and anxiety.

These girls are suffering, and have likely been brushed off by medical professionals. It's no wonder they would turn to social media for support. Show some compassion for something you know nothing about.

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Strong whamen who whine. Strong black people who need still more reparations. Strong drag queens who can bounce your 5 year old on their lap without smudging their makeup. Strong politicians who can hit the nuke button without breaking a nail. It is all so tiresome. Watching the most expelled tribe of people in human history destabilize, demoralize and now physically weaken The West, as most of my able brethren virtue signals on LinkedIn whilst checking their 401k and net worth, is a really sickening era.

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