Can using certain drugs send you to a Mental Institution?

@Pfuzylogic I've had a lifelong interest in psychology, inc. studying it at U.N.E.
Telephone counselling at Lifeline.
Have met and spoken with most types over the years.
Am now 66.
Am an atheist and very much pro science and evolution.

I don't argue with people about their beliefs and values,
however I do love to understand why people hold the beliefs and values they have, and how those support their quality of life.

@hartfire
When i saw that you didn’t like my response. You looked familiar.
Didn’t we have a discussion on beliefs previously?

@hartfire
https://similarworlds.com/atheism/4664915-The-God-delusion-Interesting-title-because-Dawkins-as-well
There we go!
I was feeling slightly stalked here.

@hartfire Wow. I didn't know that.. Jesus
I wonder why someone would want to try a drug that they see can ruin their lives or seeing someone else on it and what it does to them.

@BeautifulLibra I asked an ice addict (young male hitchhiker). He told me he was under a home custody sentence on probation to live with his father. I asked why. He said he'd committed a crime while on ice.
I asked him why he took it.
He said the very first time was the best experience of his life and he was instantly hooked.
I asked him what it felt like and he could only say "good."
He wasn't very articulate.
I hope one day to meet one who has a larger vocabulary.
But it's possible that the brain damage might interfere with language production. Definitely it interferes with insight and empathy.

One time, I came home and discovered a strange Honda Civic stuck on a precarious slope between my driveway and the fence.
At the house, my Landcruiser was missing.
At 5ish a young man rang: "Sorry I crashed Mum's car in the long grass off your driveway. I borrowed your car to get home. I'll wash it at return it at 7.
By 7, the car wasn't returned so I rang the police and gave them the caller's mobile number.
The next day, the police rang and said they had my car in their lockup yard and had dusted it for prints. They'd found the young man's prints on it. He was 28, had a girlfriend and 3-year-old son by her, used to be a BMW mechanic, had been up before judges for car theft many times - and had just broken his most recent parole. This incident would put him in prison.
Later his mother and her best friend came to visit me, explain and apologise.
Both women were sweet, honest, and seemed at their wit's end trying to cope with the son's addiction. They said he always slept after coming off the drug, and always regretted his actions.

I came to understand that while on the drug,
they lose any sense of what is right or wrong,
what harms and what might be dangerous.

@BeautifulLibra yes it can.

@BeautifulLibra Yes, but only if they are already predisposed to schizophrenia. It can be a trigger, but is not the cause.

Personally I don't think people should experiment with marijuana until 18 or older.
I think young brains need time to develop properly without the influence of drugs. Drugs make it too easy to do impulsive and silly things.
But since adolescence is often a time of experiment and rebellion, I doubt many parents will ever have much luck trying to prevent or control it. You'd virtually have to take them hiking in wilderness to get away from potential sources.

@hartfire The rational part of a teens brain isn't fully developed until age 25 and up. That's why teens are often high risk when driving. You're right, using drugs at a young age is a bad idea.

@malizz marijuana too for you people who had stress in vitro or in childhood!