I understand
The Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc argument that just because Marijuana use is statistically linked to psychosis
Does not necessarily mean that the psychosis is caused by it...
Has been a tough statistical knot to untie
I think that the article itslf states it's motive where it states: cannabis use is associated with psychotic phenomenology. First, in addition to being the most abused illicit substance in the general US population, cannabis is clearly the most abused illegal drug among individuals with ...
This entire rant is entirely out of place and inappropriate in ANY scientific study, since it is entirely judgmental and normative, rather than focused on the specific causes, symptoms, diagnosis and prognosis of a syndrome. It is obviously written by some hard core government grant junkies trying to stay on the high of war on drug money.
This is but one more example of how our economy got into a structural mess with enormous parts of the population consuming enormous quantities of resources to do things that are entirely useless to a productive economy.