Marjuana advocates have in the past claimed that such studies do not account for the possible differences between users and non-uers (presumably users are more likely to be nutty in the first place). This study shows a correlation between dosage and risk, which better nails down the causality.
Meanwhile, the Toronto Globe & Mail is running an on-line poll, asking if this new evidence worries you. So far, it worries only 20%. The rest of weed-smoking Canada doesn't care. Like, dude, light up and forget about it, and listen to those voices!
1 posted on
07/27/2007 7:09:50 AM PDT by
docbnj
To: docbnj
This study is a bunch of crap...no it isn’t....yes it is.
2 posted on
07/27/2007 7:10:34 AM PDT by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: docbnj
Are you watching me? Someone’s watching me. Are you watching me?
3 posted on
07/27/2007 7:15:13 AM PDT by
Eagle of Liberty
(To Liberals like Pelosi, it's not about serving America, IT'S ALL ABOUT POWER!)
To: docbnj
There’s nothing worse than a schizo dude with the munchies.
4 posted on
07/27/2007 7:20:38 AM PDT by
socal_parrot
(Leaner, but not meaner)
To: docbnj
Using marijuana increases the risk of one day developing a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia...
specially if it's laced with PCP...
5 posted on
07/27/2007 7:22:55 AM PDT by
stylin19a
(Don't buy a putter until you have had a chance to throw it.)
To: docbnj
6 posted on
07/27/2007 7:46:11 AM PDT by
Moleman
To: docbnj
So, from what I gathered from the other thread, 5 in 1000 people in the general population are schitzo.
So, if it is a 40% raise in the pot smoking population, 7 in 1000 people there are schitzo.
2 more people out of a thousand are schitzo. Run for the hills!!!!
But it sure sounds like a terrible thing when ‘40 percent’ is used. Who knew it was easy to take add to a small number and get a large percentage increse out of it?
9 posted on
07/27/2007 10:03:10 AM PDT by
Nate505
To: docbnj
This is the second such study. There was a Swedish study saying that thinking very often became LIKE a schizophrenic from MJ use.
Notice most of the replies don’t think anything long term happens to the mind on MJ. Having no insight is also a mental illness find. MJ biggest change in thinking is that you are no different or better thinking with it.
To: docbnj
Using marijuana increases the risk of one day developing a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia, according to a study that provides some of the strongest evidence yet linking the drug to a mental disorder.Get ready to see the marijuana filled Freepers give more proof of this in the following posts...
11 posted on
07/27/2007 2:45:55 PM PDT by
69ConvertibleFirebird
(Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.)
13 posted on
07/27/2007 9:24:02 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
(Profile updated Thursday, July 26, 2007 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: docbnj
Whenever a government decreases or proposes to decrease the penalty for marijuana usage, these studies come out of the woodwork. You could graph it on a chart to show the correlation.
One thing all marijuana drug warriors have in common: they are pathological liars.
To: docbnj
No kidding. Back in the 60s, this was such a commonly known fact that everybody used to joke about it.
The other thing that was commonly known was the disastrous effect of pot smoking on one’s lung capacity - I had a friend, when I was 16, who smoked so much dope she wheezed like an old man when she had to go up a flight of stairs.
15 posted on
08/06/2007 12:07:48 PM PDT by
livius
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