“In reality, accurately tracking psychosis cases is impossible in the United States...Nor do any of these studies prove that rising cannabis use has caused population-wide increases in psychosis or other mental illness. The most that can be said is that they offer intriguing evidence of a link.”
Everybody get that? Tracking is impossible…none of these studies prove…at most there is intriguing evidence of a link.
I don’t care how the worthy I thought the cause, I’d be ashamed to accept crap like this as science.
Before the use of the drug was widespread—say, the early sixties and before—there were plenty of schizophrenics and plenty of mental hospitals to hold them. Now suddenly pot causes schizophrenia? What caused schizophrenia before a lot of people used pot?
Rates of mental illness were a small fraction of what they are today.
Bobby socks and white t-shirts.