Gene glitches link pot with schizophrenia

UPI Science News ^ | July 1, 2002 | Charles Choi

[SouthernFreebird]

The hallucinogenic properties of marijuana...

That must be the expensive stuff cause I don't know one person who has had an hallucination smoking the weed we have here.

[Strider]

I'd bet the farm on 20 samples - and under some circumstances, on as few as 6 samples.

You're a braver man than me, then.

If I could make accurate predictions with small sample sizes, I'd stand to save alot of money.

If the universe is small and tesing 20 means testing a significant portion of the whole, that's one thing.

Extrapolating from a small sample to a large population is another.

[thepitts]

Good reading comprehension skills there.

SOP.

[gcruse]

Dang blurred vision! I c'n hardly make ya out!

How many fingers do you see?  [Holds up one finger]

Two!

How many now?   [Holds up two fingers]

Two!

How many now?  [Holds up three fingers]

Two!

Nurse, take care of this man.  He sees two
of everything!
 

           (Thanx and a hat tip to Joseph Heller)

[apochromat]

SOP

It's coming "straight from the ticker", no doubt.

[Still Using Air]

It certainly hasn't affected us.

[John H K]

Ok, compare this with the cumulative total of the medical evidence of the dangers of smoking.

You want smoking to be illegal too, right?

[gcruse]

Us either. [Get OFF!!!]

[shempy]

My uncle was a pot-head in the eighties and half the nineties. He's now certifiable... Keeps telling us the government planted chips in his foot, and that evil men dressed in all black are out to get him because he knows...

I was a pot-head for half the eighties and all the nineties. I am now a Republican voter... I keep telling folks how the government steals my hard earned money through taxation, and that evil Democrats are out get even more of my money because I work...

[irv]

Remember: You're never alone with a schizophrenic.

[gracie1]

On a related note, a similar study linked households with cats and catboxes to increased rates of schizophernia. So I guess the greatest risk is potsmokers with cats!

[Tall_Texan]

My uncle was a pot-head in the eighties and half the nineties. He's now certifiable... Keeps telling us the government planted chips in his foot, and that evil men dressed in all black are out to get him because he knows...

Your uncle is Michael Rivero???

[Tall_Texan]

...or smoking cats. Particularly those who roll their own. (I hear cats are ten times more toxic than when we are abusing them).

[southern rock]

this is NOT the first evidence that genetic damage resulted from pot use.

So? Even if it were true, potential genetic damage is not a valid reason for making something illegal.

[gcruse]

 So I guess the greatest risk is potsmokers with cats!

All I know is that once I blew some pot smoke
into a paper bag and stuck the cat's head in
to breath it.  The cat acted offended and left.
For about a minute.  Then it came back in and
tried to stick its head back into the paper bag.

[gcruse]

Remember: You're never alone with a schizophrenic

I prefer Alzheimer's.  You know,
you're almost meeting new people.

[Illbay]

You want smoking to be illegal too, right?

It is, in my household.

[Illbay]

OR Pot-Smoking Cats!

[Illbay]

LOL!

[Illbay]

Decades of trying, and you just can't get your stash at discount prices, can you?

Wonder why that is? Too many folks like me, perfectly willing to KEEP it banned, AND stick idjits like you in jail, I guess.

Better keep it hidden, 'cause we're comin' for YOU next, doper!