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Gene glitches link pot with schizophrenia
UPI Science News ^
| July 1, 2002
| Charles Choi
Posted on 07/01/2002 7:10:41 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: gcruse
Hmmmmm...Japan....Thai stix perhaps? al and tipper's favorite flavor of pot...could explain alot.(just musing)
To: Jonx6
Ping.
To: TXFireman
I would like to see what brain desease manifests itself after a number of years of snorting Coke. It may explain the cokehead desease that so many Americans are so fond of. Could it be megalomaniac. Bill, do you have any insight for us little people?
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07/01/2002 10:24:40 PM PDT
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The Bolt
To: gcruse
This is bad science. If it's true for everyone then they'd have an universal sample. It's like reseach that say eggs are bad for you. No wait, there's another study: eggs are good for you.
My God our parents lived there lives w/out all this research. It's like global warming..There are latest findings and then there are real scientist..
To: Illbay
this is NOT the first evidence that genetic damage resulted from pot use.Shouldn't let the story get in the way, but it's not a genetic defect "caused" by pot use, it's genetic damage prior to pot use, that would make one suceptible to problems. Some folks shouldn't drink alcohol either for similar reasons. Blackbird.
To: Khepera
I thought men in black was a movie. That's what THEY want you to think.
To: gcruse
The only thing that surprises me about this story is that I thought that heavy duty pot smoking was more likely to push the smoker into manic depressive disease. I base that on two people I have known who were users and on what my pediatrician told me about the drug in 1964 when a friend became manic depressive and tried to kill her children, supposedly after smoking only one (1) marijauana cigarette bought on the street in Berkeley, CA.
The UC Berkeley Director of Student Health gave an interview in about 1965 or 66 stating that it was his observation that heavy pot smokers no longer could reason logically -- which is the reason I think that they all claim to be unharmed from smoking this substance while those around them can easily see how irrational they can be.
To: gcruse
Ujike stressed there is no evidence yet these genetic abnormalities can affect how the marijuana receptor actually acts in the brain. "We would also like to replicate our findings with different ethnic populations and more people," he added
No kidding. But, it's never too early for a loaded (no pun intended) headline.
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07/02/2002 4:33:44 PM PDT
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andyk
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