Hyperbole and distorted facts make people not believe you when you actually tell the truth.
Posted on 07/27/2007 1:46:41 PM PDT by Bladerunnuh
A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing study warns.
The Government-commissioned report has also found that taking the drug regularly more than doubles the risk of serious mental illness.
Overall, cannabis could be to blame for one in seven cases of schizophrenia and other life-shattering mental illness, the Lancet reports.
The grim statistics - the latest to link teenage cannabis use with mental illness in later life - come only days after Gordon Brown ordered a review of the decision to downgrade cannabis to class C, the least serious category.
The Prime Minister is said to have a 'personal instinct' that the change should be reversed, with more arrests and stiffer penalties for users.
Cannabis has been implicated in a string of vicious killings, including the recent stabbing of fashion designer Lucy Braham.
The authors of the latest study, the most comprehensive of its kind and commissioned by the Department of Health, said: 'Policymakers need to provide the public with advice about this widely-used drug.
'We believe there is now enough
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Oh wow man.
Hyperbole and distorted facts make people not believe you when you actually tell the truth.
This will surely annoy the “I’m a libertarian mostly because I like to get stoned” brigade.
Cannabis better get himself a really good lawyer.
What about us who are in the ““I’m a libertarian mostly because I hate government telling me what to do” brigade?
What about us republicans who like to get stoned?
Wow, England must have a big pharmaceutical sector just like the US.
Sorry, I don't believe this for a minute.
;-)
Tells me all I need to know.
“pot/schizophrenia”
I can believe it!/Now that’s pure BS
Even if the study is correct, that increases the risk of getting schizophrenia from 1% to 1.4%, but I fail to see how any study can be so bold as to claim this amount of increased risk from smoking one joint.
The Daily Mail has been on a crusade against cannabis for years. I suspect some bias has crept in to their reporting.
I’m not a fan of the drug culture, but this doesn’t pass the, er, sniff test, to me.
I’ve been smoking the stuff all my live and have never had a psychotic episode... and neither have I. :)
“I’m plumb crazy and I’m gonna level this place”
It is probably true. Cannabis probably has a deleterious effect on normal brain function in people who are already genetically inclined toward mental illness, but who are not necessarily going to develop such illness during the course of a normal, chemical free lifestyle.
I wouldn’t be surprised if alcohol abuse can also contribute to causing a predisposition for mental illness to manifest as well. Or any mind altering drug, for that matter.
The real solution is in identifying persons at risk, and then informing them so that they can take better care of themselves, if they so choose.
40% = 655K reefer schizophrenics.
I AM NOT WADING INTO THE SWAMP OF DESCRIMINALIZATION ON THIS, BUT....
...Pot is not the same pot it was ten years ago. The compounds that make up the active ingredients have been seriously altered through selective growing practices.
Cannabis better get himself a really good lawyer.
my advice, the oj team.
btw, lol at your comment.
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