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I was in a relationship with a lady who developed schizophrenia within a few months of experimentation with marijuana. She had relatively clear periods of time where she was lucid even though she always heard voices. It was painful to watch her suffer and be unable to help, despite all the magic of love and encouragement. She just got worse and had longer and longer catatonic episodes and eventually developed paranoia even about me that could not be reasoned away.

I can't see how anyone would willingly take even a 1 in 10 million risk of developing this illness. And you have to think: if this drug can bring on the most severe mental illness there is, then what about less severe and less readily detectable changes in the brain? That's not play time.

One of the more tragic things about her is that she even let pro weed propaganda change her from her original view that marijuana could have caused her illness, to the notion that she could self-treat with it, and resumed using it!! That was after our relationship eneded. I understand she has gotten to the point of being hospitalized for months at a time.