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Student fires up a joint during his pro-pot legalization essay (pg. 5)
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| Dervish |
>Find it yourselfs<
| quote: | Young people who otherwise would have been very unlikely to developed psychosis will, as a result of their early cannabis use, be affected by a life-long and severely disabling mental illness that will markedly narrow their life choices and quality of life," said Professor Drummond.
More than 22,000 people needed treatment for cannabis use in Britain last year. It was after publishing these figures that this newspaper revised its stance, abandoning all previous calls for legalisation of the drug.
The decision has been praised by many, including Professor Hamid Ghodse, the director of the International Centre for Drug Policy, who said: "The risks of cannabis have been overlooked for many years no. I'm glad your paper is making the public aware of the dangers. Cannabis is not the harmless drug which many people may have believed."
The main problem, according to medical authorities, is that it is impossible to predict with certainty people who might be vulnerable to psychosis and schizophrenia, aside from those with a family history of such problems. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | A 2005 meta analysis of available data which evaluated several hypotheses regarding the correlation of cannabis and psychosis found that there is no support for the hypothesis that cannabis can cause cases of psychosis which would not have occurred otherwise, however further study is needed to explore the correlation between cannabis and other types of psychosis patients.[85] Studies have shown that a risk does exist in some individuals with a predisposition to mental illness to develop symptoms of psychosis.[86] The risk was found to be directly related to high dosage and frequency of use, early age of introduction to the drug, and was especially pronounced for those with a predisposition for mental illness. These results have been questioned as being biased by failing to account for medicinal versus recreational usage[87] — critics contend it could be a causal relationship, or it could be that people who are susceptible to mental problems tend to smoke cannabis, or it could be connected to the criminalization of cannabis. Another important question is whether the observed symptoms of mental illness are actually connected to development of a permanent mental disorder; cannabis may trigger latent conditions, or be part of a complex coordination of causes of mental illness, referred to in psychology as the diathesis-stress model. People with developed psychological disorders are known to self-medicate their symptoms with cannabis as well, although one study has claimed that those with a predisposition for psychosis did not show a statistically significant increase in likelihood of cannabis use four years later.[88]
A 2005 literature review of the use of cannabis in mental health patients found that the drug can have very different effects on different patients. Although "no controlled trials of THC have been done in bipolar disorder," there is anecdotal evidence that "for some people marijuana is beneficial" as a treatment for bipolar disorder. The reviewers suggested that randomized studies and standardized administration techniques would be required to create conclusive evidence.[89] |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect..._mental_illness |
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| elFreak |
every link says they had it to begin with.
you lose. |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
every link says they had it to begin with. |
Bingo. Your brother was already ed. It was the marijuana that just sped the process along. Not to come off as an , but it was his own fault. He made the choice to smoke it, so don't go blaming pot. |
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| Dervish |
| I don't lose, your just an ignorant tit. |
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| elFreak |
| alcohol would have done the same thing as pot because he was a basket case to begin with. |
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| elFreak |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
I don't lose, your just an ignorant tit. |
who took the link you posted, read it, and saw plain as day that you posted things that proved what i was saying.
i might be ignorant, but you have mental illness in the family *points* |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
alcohol would have done the same thing as pot because he was a basket case to begin with. |
yea and if anyone knows what a basketcase is, it's this guy:gsmile: |
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| elFreak |
| from someone as neurotic as you jamie it is a compliment.:p |
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| Slylee |
| i got that boom boom pow |
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| Dervish |
| quote: | Originally posted by elFreak
alcohol would have done the same thing as pot because he was a basket case to begin with. |
No it wouldn't, even normal weed probably wouldn't trigger it. But the stronger stuff is much more likely.
It is a hereditary thing, and it is a predisposition but if he hadn't smoked strong weed it's very likely it wouldn't have happened (hence it caused it).
I'm not preaching do what you want, but you're rolling a dice taking it (especially strong stuff), be under no illusions. |
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