Doctors: Pot Triggers Psychotic Symptoms

Newsday ^ | 4/30/07 | MARIA CHENG

[kiriath_jearim]

LONDON -- New findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say.

British doctors took brain scans of 15 healthy volunteers given small doses of two of the active ingredients of cannabis, as well as a placebo.

One compound, cannabidiol, or CBD, made people more relaxed. But even small doses of another component, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, produced temporary psychotic symptoms in people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors said.

[Chickensoup]

We see this happening at the hospital fairly regularly, more than I had ever expected.

[tet68]

Obviously doctors should not use cannibis.

[Enchante]

Explains a lot about Bill Clinton and James Carville..... oh, I forgot, Bill says he “didn’t inhale”.........

[unkus]

But he had a nose like a vacuum cleaner when he was Governor.

[South40]

[donna]

We see this happening at the hospital fairly regularly, more than I had ever expected.

We will see this happening here, shortly.

[Rudder]

"Did it hurt?"

"Well, hell yeah...at first."

[oldplayer]

Pretty soon, the headlines will read “Peanuts trigger fatal reactions in people.”

So? Outlaw peanuts?

Oldplayer

[knarf]

Yeah?

So?

[Izzy Dunne]

Rubbish!

It hasn't affected ME none!

[jakewashere]

Doctors: Alcohol Triggers Dangerous Lack of Inhibitions

Doctors: Caffeine Triggers Heart Palpitations, Dizziness, Paranoia

[Mariner]

OK, how about those who have tried it...once or a thousand times before:)

Do they risk psychosis too? For instance, say a person is about 50yrs old, has smoked it for over 30 years, votes GOP, keeps a six-figure job and has an IQ over 140...are they at risk of suddenly going nuts?

Wait a minute...who's that talking? Did you hear that?

[AntiFed]

Ban it! Ban it!

[HangThemHigh]

I think you have a point. Back in the day, I was around lots of pot users (but very few doctors) and never saw such a thing. I suspect this applies mostly to people who have a comprised reality framework already, like the denizens over at the DUmp.

[Enduring Freedom]

[KyHammer]

Is this supposed to be the first time someone connected pot use with paranoid schizophrenia. I would have thought this was common knowledge.

[COBOL2Java]

New findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say.

Explains the behavior of the 60's radicals currently occupying the hallways of power in the leftist Congress...

[Lx]

Willie Nelson with the Stars and Bars?

I would think a hammer and sickle was more his style.

[COBOL2Java]