[gcruse]

"We would also like to replicate our findings with different ethnic populations and more people," he added.

I'll be right over.

[zarf]

This is not possible.......BLAHHHHHLAHHHHH H!!!!

[jae471]

I'll bite. 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...

[proxy_user]

This is certainly true. There are some people who should never indulge. I well remember the case of my best college friend's brother, who smoked for about six months and then went off the deep end. He seemed pretty normal up until then, but there are subtle signs of a pre-schizophrenic personality.

It's hard to predict. I would say, when in doubt, don't. But these guys never listen to me...

[Illbay]

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

But this couldn't be, though. It would defeat the entire raison d'etre of SO MANY of our fine Libertine friends!

[null and void]

thinking of you...

[Still Using Air]

It certainly hasn't affected us.

[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!

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Hmmmmm...Japan....Thai stix perhaps? al and tipper's favorite flavor of pot...could explain alot.(just musing)

[TXFireman]

Ping.

[Madame de Winter]

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..

[afraidfortherepublic]

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.

[andyk]

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.