Strong cannabis causes one in four cases of psychosis

Daily Mail ^ | February 15, 2015 | DAILY MAIL REPORTER

[MeshugeMikey]

Full Title: Strong cannabis causes one in four cases of psychosis: Users three times more likely to have an episode than those who have never tried it ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª As many as a quarter of new cases of psychotic mental illness can be blamed on super-strength strains of cannabis, scientists will warn this week. The potent form of the drug – known as ‘skunk’ – is so powerful that users are three times more likely to have a psychotic episode than those who have never tried it.

[deadrock]

They have found weed sprinkled with meth in my neck of the nape. Scary.

[a fool in paradise]

Sound like hash oil. Lots and lots.

Maureen Dowd’s chocolate bar had the same effect.

And we were told that she ate “too much”.

Maybe that one brownie was supposed to feed 12 or 20 people.

Or maybe some just really take a LOT of dope when they get stoned.

[Born to Conserve]

In other news: Study finds psychotic patients fifty times more likely to smoke strong pot than normal people.

[dfwgator]

"I won't go schizo, will I?"

"It's a distinct possibility."

[Windflier]

These powerful strains were developed by people with botany degrees.

I can remember my (toker) brother explaining all that to me, back in the mid to late 80s. He showed me a tiny little baggie with just a sprinkle of weed in it and explained that it was a ten dollar bag.

Huh? I thought he'd been ripped off until he told me that it wasn't the same sort of junk we'd smoked as kids.

I'd been out of that culture for a long time at that point, and didn't have a clue about street drugs any longer.

[Windflier]

may be the type of mess that Mohammed used to smoke

I didn't know marijuana grew in the middle east back then. Then again, I read somewhere that researchers found traces of it in mummy wrappings, so maybe so.

[ansel12]

We can see Jesus and Reagan with a glass of alcohol in their hands, but not of them using pot.

[ansel12]

Cannabis use in the Middle East was already ancient by the time of Mohammed.

Cannabis was always rejected as an intoxicant by Western civilization, even in the time of the ancient Greeks.

There is a difference in these regions, like the West that was alcohol based, and the peoples who were Cannabis based.

[Windflier]

Cannabis use in the Middle East was already ancient by the time of Mohammed.

I guess that's what all those Bedouins were smoking in their hookah pipes. I seem to also recall that hashish comes from that part of the world.

No wonder their culture is cemented in the 7th century. They've been stoned for 1,300 years.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

Um, you don’t ‘come down’ with bipolar disorder. It’s something you are born with.

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

It can induce mania and/or paranoia in someone who has bipolar disorder which is exactly what it did to me.

It made me very manic and it even messed with my mind to a certain extent.

It wasn’t relaxing or enjoyable at all.

[Axenolith]

I was close to getting a contact high from a group smoking it at the park I was detecting at today. You can pretty much smell it anytime you’re around the parks in Oakland.

Interestingly, it’s also an item I’m beginning to see in the trash on the roadside while working, lots of empty “medical MJ” bags, and an occasional one with contents.

[grania]

It might be that the early studies which “only” linked pot to schizophrenia and reduced short term memory were studies involving less potent forms of marijuana. Other possible factors are now long-term impact and impact on descendants of pot users.

It's a problem with all research done on new meds. Long-term conclusions are being drawn from short-term data.

[MeshugeMikey]

Americas first CHOOM-American President

[MeshugeMikey]

Hashish,,,primarliy The Assassins (from Arabic: حشّاشين‎ Ḥashshāshīn[1]) were a secret order of Nizari Ismailis, particularly those of Persia and Syria, that formed in the late 11th century. In time, the order began to pose a strong military threat to Sunni Seljuq authority within the Persian territories by capturing and inhabiting many mountain fortresses under the leadership of Hassan-i Sabbah. The name "Assassin" is often said to derive from the Arabic word Hashishin or "users of hashish",[2] a misnomer thought to have been derogatory and used by their adversaries during the Middle Ages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassins

[MeshugeMikey]

At an estimated $35.8 billion marijuana is by far the largest cash crop in the United States when compared to the average production values of other crops ...

we are so screwed..generations...using this stuff from early youth onward.....

[central_va]

I thought spice was used by addicted Guild Navigators to help them navigate space through worm holes.

[Ueriah]

The dilemna with baking cannabis products is that it’s not really possible to know how much of the butter will end up in any particular piece of the brownie tray.

It’s very likely that some pieces will have more butter in them than others.

So it’s possibly someone gets a “WHAT THE EFF” chunk, and someone else gets a brownie that is just a brownie.

[henkster]

Yeah, and those guys are crazy, right?

[W.]

I’d say the Daily Mail author doesen’t know what they’re writing about, calling skunk weed stronger than hash? Hash is made from trichomes, which come from strong pot, but that hash is way more potent than pot. Just sayin’...