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To: Rodney King
Now who's misinforming. The article says more likely to have. This is the same language used in countless studies that seek to establish whether or not there is a cause/effect relationship. It does not say that mentally ill people are more inclined to smoke pot. It says pot smoking is linked to a 4x greater likelyhood that one will become mentally ill. It's hard to become what one already is. And don't tell me, let me guess - libertarian, right..
Or perhaps you're one of those non-pot smoking pro-potsmoking enthusiasts that just happens to get ruffled for no particularly good reason and wants to make a constitutional issue out of the regulation of a demostrably bad drug. Hmm.....
61 posted on 04/08/2003 6:38:08 PM PDT by Havoc (Excersize your iq muscles, read Coulter)
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To: Havoc
Now who's misinforming. The article says more likely to have. This is the same language used in countless studies that seek to establish whether or not there is a cause/effect relationship. It does not say that mentally ill people are more inclined to smoke pot. It says pot smoking is linked to a 4x greater likelyhood that one will become mentally ill. It's hard to become what one already is. And don't tell me, let me guess - libertarian, right..

What are you talking about? All I said was that correlation does not prove causation. That the fact that pot smokers are more likely to have schizophrenia does not by itself prove that the pot caused the schizophrenia. That's all that I said. To say that the correlation proves causation is simply statistically wrong. And no, I am not a libertarian. I question questionable science no matter who says it, not just when it helps my position.

63 posted on 04/08/2003 6:51:07 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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