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To: SubMareener
Sorry, Rodney, but this is not misinformation. This has been known for a very long time, but the pot-smoking press did not want to let you know. If you are a pot smoker, the good news is your brain is damaged in such a way that you will think you are just fine. :-)

I am not saying that pot doesn't cause schizophrenia. I am also not saying that schizophrenics are more likely to smoke pot. Either or a mixture of both might be true. I am just saying that correlation does not prove causation, as this article seems to claim.

35 posted on 04/08/2003 3:51:17 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King; SubMareener
I am not saying that pot doesn't cause schizophrenia. I am also not saying that schizophrenics are more likely to smoke pot. Either or a mixture of both might be true. I am just saying that correlation does not prove causation, as this article seems to claim.

Exactly! Also, this version of the story left out a highly relevant fact: "Others, however, point to the fact that rates of schizophrenia have not risen dramatically in the past 50 years to correspond with increasing use of the drug." (from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886617/posts)

72 posted on 04/09/2003 11:24:09 AM PDT by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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