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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Rude doc IMO...
Stick around. It's Friday night, and in a few hours the "I'm so drunk I shouldn't be sitting at the computer writing ANYTHING" crew shows up.
It makes for interesting, if not incredibly annoying, dialog.
APf
The thing that really gets to me is that we pay taxes and vote for people to run these rackets on ourselves! Talk about your brain washing!
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Okey-dokey then. Enjoy.
Dr Torrey says that some times an adolescent boy begins to experience hallucinations and becomes alarmed and confused by these hallucinations and tries pot to give himself a rationalization for the hallucinations. It is terrifying for a boy to experience these hallucinations. He tells no one. He is ashamed. With pot, he can say it is the high from the drug causing the hallucination, but he is actually experiencing the onset of schizophrenia.
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Overall, cannabis could be to blame for one in seven cases of schizophrenia and other life-shattering mental illness, the Lancet reports.
The 30% stuff is comparable to the stuff they smoked in Vietnam. I know a couple of vets that were impressed. It had been close to 40 years. It's very strong. Even union painters can't work after smoking it.
A weakness in this kind of study is the causation could go the other way - folks more prone to schizophrenia may be more likely to smoke dope.
Yes, see #85
BOLDERDASH !.........:o!
“Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40%”
LOL, explains a lot.
>>>What about us republicans who like to get stoned?
They will tell you that makes you a Libertarian.......
Always gotta have a label...
And badgers!
Don't get me started on the badgers.
:)
APf
I resemble that remark.
“Sorry, I don’t believe this for a minute.”
It’s true! A disturbing study does warn it!
I guess it’s not the same as it was thirty five years ago either?
Anyone know where you can get heritage weed? Like those good heritage tomatoes? Columbian, Acapulco Gold, Panama Red, harsh Mexican, and the good old mellow “Homegrown”. . .
That explains Bill Clinton....
Growers have been fooling around with the chemical make-up of this stuff for decades. Most idiots think that THC is the only active ingredient in pot and they are sorely mistaken.
Also, I’ve personally encountered folks who wouldn’t dream of buying a non-organic tomato, yet put all manner of drugs into their body for recreational purposes.
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