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Dealing with adult son with mental health: Parents want to share?
Mental Health | Last Active: Dec 29, 2025 | Replies (227)Comment receiving replies
I found out recently that 80% of teenage boys that use Marijuana regularly are highly likely to become schizophrenic later in life.
I wish that was taught in school health classes.
They say marijuana is a gateway drug, but don’t explain that one of the gates that open up is devistating mental health issues later in life.
I have spoken to doctors and police and they all reacted like it is common knowledge!!!
Just not common to the public!!
I believe this is the cause of my son’s issues. He is 36 and is living in a tent downtown in Calgary with temperatures dropping to -20 c. Or lower on the next few months.
I check on him 2-3 times a week and each time after a cold night I feel like I am going to find him frozen to death.
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@riverbendab yes, I think that’s true about marijuana. We think that is how our son got ill during college. So many young people use it and its devastating effects were virtually unknown.
@riverbendab I’m sorry you are going through this too. Is your son taking any medication? Are there shelters there in Calgary he would go to in order to be out of the cold? Here in our town in Wyoming there is one but they only let you stay a week. Wyoming is very bad when it comes to mental health care. I think we are going to move him back to Colorado for better resources
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I believe that is true. I remember when my son came home one evening, spaced out from something that was in he weed. That's when it started. Not only that but on 2 occasions when I called the crisis team he had smoked weed. I tried to explain to him that the 2 don't mix