Posted on 06/24/2014 10:47:48 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
You’d think that would give all pot smokers pause.
The libs are gonna love this. More excuses for them to get away with murder and lies—the weed made me do it.
Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean everyone isn’t out to get me.
Actually it was the same cannibal who devoured a comedian.
He thought it tasted funny.
Hey but if you’re schizoid you can get a government paid subscription for even more drugs......ummm what was I sayin?
Yikes.....should have given at least a warning on that pic!!!! lol
“Police and EMS would see more schizophrenics than the average person for obvious reasons.”
That’s not what I’m saying. Even controlling for sampling bias, as it were, there’s still more actual mental illness in the world than your average office worker or suburbanite would guess. Those law-abiding, high-time-horizing individuals have already undergone several levels of selection and segregation to separate themselves away from the human “average” — for example they’ve completed at least one and often multiple types of schooling, proving they can sit down and behave for years at a time in a constrained environment.
People living in nice little houses in nice little communities often don’t have the first clue how truly abnormal they and their neighbors are, truly there’s no real conception of how totally removed they are from human averages.
I’m not projecting from my abnormal experiences and trying to claim that they’re the norm, I’m saying that when I average my small percentage of the world and your small percentage of the world together, I get a figure that says there’s a lot more mental illness than you can conceive of (and less than I have seen on some workdays). I’ve already adjusted for sampling bias, as it were.
Extreme sleep deprivation can produce the same experiences, which is why tweekers get so messed up, mentally. Now, look at the bags under the eyes of some of the folks in DC and tell me they've been getting enough rest.
So did the "whirling cage."
There is absolutely no reason for government to be protecting us from ourselves in such a manner. This type of thinking will eventually continue into fatty foods, sugar, too much TV, overexercising, underexercising, driving too fast, sitting incorrectly, loud music, etc, etc, etc until everything not mandatory is prohibited. There can be no limit to how much safety is “enough” and we are already seeing glimpses of such a bubble-wrapped, warning-everywhere society. Is that what you statists really want?
So. You think that restricting marijuana is as evil as restricting soda or fatty foods.
Take your pro-dope ideas to the DUmp, pal.
No shit?
I’m not paranoid at all and I know for a fact that everyone is out to get me!
If that rambling, indecipherable post is any indication of your mental state, your percentages may have to be recalculated up a bit.
Judgemental but, okay.
The same could be said of those who drink.
But yeah, getting up everyday runing multi million and billion dollar companies is one way I look at people.
Another is; if you don’t abuse. Don’t deprive others of anything of value and don’t rob others of their dignity or pride.
Don’t take advantage of others or waste their time.
I’m about that simple.
“There is absolutely no reason for government to be protecting us from ourselves in such a manner.”
It’s nobody’s business as long as you work for yourself and don’t drive.
Bingo!
It’s your head game and the stories you tell yourself.
Yuh kwayzee wascist....
“I’m shocked, just shocked, to find that that constantly taking a brain-altering drug alters the brain.”
You do understand the difference between correlation and causation don’t you?
Example: Do you wear clothes? Wearing clothing is highly correlated with serial killing - most serial killers were clothes for most of their lives.
This is an example of correlation. Not causation. Wearing clothes doesn’t make you a serial killer, nor can wearing clothes be construed as a predictive factor for such behavior. Nor would banning clothing eliminate serial killing.
For every single CAUSE of an event you can think of, there are going to be hundreds, thousands, even millions of different correlations, and finding a correlation does not imply that said correlation is a cause. Correlation simply means that two or more things are often seen together.
In the example above, wearing clothing is a logical consequence of being human. Hence every single thing we human beings do is going to be correlated positively or negatively with clothing.
Further, it would be incredibly stupid to assume ipso facto that you can change something by changing something it is correlated with — as said you can’t get rid of serial killers by getting rid of clothing, even though those two things are highly correlated.
So, back to the article, people with a GENETIC PREDISPOSITION towards schizophrenia (and schizophrenia is a well-proven example of a mental/behavioral trait that is hereditary in nature) are more likely to use marijuana.
You can’t assume that meant marijuana use caused schizophrenia. Schizophrenia, as mentioned, is an example of a mental disorder that stems from hereditary influences, and this study further slices that definition down by only noting that people with a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia (not full-blown schizophrenics) are more likely to use marijuana. Hence, you cannot say that their genetic makeup is caused by their drug use. Assuming that something you do in your lifetime can cause your own ancestry is mind-numbingly wrong (absent time travel).
Nor would it be correct to assume that marijuana use is caused by schizophrenia (not marijuana use in general, mind you). The findings simply illustrate that people with a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia are more likely to use marijuna, STOP. No more, no less.
Extrapolations beyond that point, and all discussions about what “causes” the drug use or the mental illness, are beyond the scope of the study we’re discussing. Granted, extrapolations can by engaging and interesting — several of us on the thread have shared our anecdotal experiences with mental patients and drug users, and drug-using mental patients.
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