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Hate to bust your buzz, but...

http://www.schizophrenia.com/prevent2.htm

Street Drugs increase risk of Schizophrenia - Use of street drugs (marijuana/hash - cannabis, etc.) have been linked with significantly increased probability of developing schizophrenia.
Psychiatrists in inner-city areas speak of cannabis being a factor in up to 80 per cent of schizophrenia cases. Researchers in New Zealand found that those who used cannabis by the age of 15 were more than three times (300%) more likely to develop illnesses such as schizophrenia.

Other research has backed this up, showing that cannabis use increases the risk of psychosis by up to 700 per cent for heavy users, and that the risk increases in proportion to the amount of cannabis used (smoked or consumed).

Additionally, the younger a person smokes/uses cannabis, the higher the risk for schizophrenia, and the worse the schizophrenia is when the person does develop it.

Hate to bust your buzz, but

ROFL!
I don't know why, but I really thought you were going to come up with one I haven't refuted here on FR yet. Excuse me if I don't put up all the links and references I have done so many times, but if you use search here on FR you can copy the dozens of sources I have used.

The Schizo page you linked gives advice to those who already have or are carrying the gene for Schizophrenia. This page references Dr. Pat McGorry at the University of Melbourne. McGorry's work has been refuted by nearly every legitimate scientist here and in Austrailia. My favorite is John P. Morgan a physician and professor of pharmacology at the CUNY Medical School. You can find a great refutation of McGorry's baloney in the book: "Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts" by professors Lynn Zimmer and John Morgan...Real scientists.

McGory can not produce any data to back up his claims. His reference to the New Zealand study turns out to be a religious school where Bible study students went around asking other kids about pot. This is not science!

If we continue with the page we find that all of the data on the website is compiled from patient records of those who have schizophrenia or whose parents have schizophrenia. According to the data on the site, for those who are already at risk of a schizophrenic episode, marijuana can increase the chance of an episode. So can alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, coffee, tea and chocolate.
Living in a dysfunctional family increases your chances of an episode. Living in the country decreases your chances over living in a city.

On the website they use baloney like "increases chances" 3X 5X and 15X, but when you go to the references they cite, you find 3% 5% and 1.5%. Marijuana is 1.5%...same as chocolate. The percentages should give you a clue. They are statiscally insignificant.

You will also find when you check their references:
"Schizophrenia can sometimes be triggered by heavy use of hallucinogenic drugs, especially LSD; but it appears that one has to have a predisposition towards developing schizophrenia for this to occur"

Every single reference they use turns out to say that you have to be predisposed to have a schizophrenic episode.

FACT: If your parents do not have schizophrenia, you will never have a schizophrenic episode no matter what drugs you use. Schizophrenia is genetic. You inherit it from your parents. There is no substance known to man that will cause schizophrenia!

You'll have to do better than this ancient piece of propaganda to bust my buzz!
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