Cannabis on the Joe Rogan Experience

“in 2017, the National Institutes of Mental Health suddenly changed its estimate for the percentage of people with schizophrenia in the US from 1.1% to 0.3%. Th…”

Berenson claims NIMH secretly changed its US schizophrenia prevalence estimate from 1.1% to 0.3% in 2017 without public notice, implying a cover-up.

“But 50% of the people who were using cannabis and had psychosis over a three-year period committed violence in that group of people. That's mostly 20-something…”

Berenson claims that in a Swiss study, 50% of cannabis users who developed psychosis committed violence within a three-year period.

“2013 oregon washington colorado alaska There are 450 murders in those four states. There are 30,000 ag assaults, period. 2017, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Al…”

Berenson cites a roughly 40% rise in murders across four early-legalization states between 2013 and 2017 as evidence tied to marijuana legalization.

“but the THC users only had a 2.4% mortality rate. The non-THC users had 11.5% mortality rate.”

The guest cites a study finding THC-positive traumatic brain injury patients had a 2.4% mortality rate versus 11.5% for non-THC patients, implying THC is protective.

“this guy Alex Berenson wrote a book about it it's called tell your children and uh it's about how there's a certain percentage of people that especially with h…”

Joe Rogan states that Alex Berenson wrote a book titled Tell Your Children arguing that a certain percentage of people, especially with high-dose THC, can experience a schizophrenic or psychotic break.