Posted on 05/15/2019 6:15:32 PM PDT by Kaslin
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I have seen it up close: siblings and co-workers.
I have never been drunk or drugged; I am a sober witness.
There are numerous studies demonstrating that marijuana causes permanent brain damage, psychosis and schizophrenia.
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Wasn’t this something copied out of Reefer Madness? Are we supposed to forget all the people killed in alcohol related car crashes,or all the people killed by cancer caused by tobacco? We are supposed to swallow this shallow attempt to demonize weed?Please...
Impossible! Pot heads have repeatedly told me that marijuana is not addictive, better for you than cigarettes, have no side effects and no worse than alcohol, not a gateway drug... and and and
My doctor and I recently kind of had this discussion. I take Tramadol for back pain and I told him....if I could smoke pot for the pain instead I would. I can’t. It makes me Exorcist sick. He said that’s because it’s not the same stuff we smoked a little of when we were young. Now half a puff would be like smoking a whole joint when we were young.
Placemark.
Varma and Sharma (3) found an increased prevalence of cannabis use disorder in the first-degree relatives of schizophrenic probands. Working from the other direction, McGuire et al (4) found that within a sample of patients admitted with acute psychosis, the morbid risk of schizophrenia was increased for the relatives of probands who had tested positive for cannabis on urinary screening. These findings are consistent with the notion of a common genetic risk factor for cannabis abuse and schizophrenia. [...]
Most anti-psychotic medications work by suppressing dopamine. Drugs (like marijuana) that increase dopamine, might well be called pro-psychotic, in that they have the opposite effect of the anti-psychotics, on dopamine levels.
So people who are borderline, are pushed over the border by the increase in dopamine from marijuana or THC.
Reefer madness may not be for everyone, but it is for some.
A plausible theory - but I'm aware of no evidence that isn't equally well explained by the alternative theories above. And I'm not aware that there is yet any epidemiological evidence demonstrating the expected increase in incidence of schizophrenia within populations exposed to high levels of cannabis.
"Link" is not "causation." The statistical connection may be simply that persons willing to break laws against violent crime have no compunction about breaking laws against marijuana.
Astounding!
Your screen shot includes no citations for these studies - and I'm not inclined to take the word of a newsletter than froths about marijuana's "destruction of civilized society itself." LOL! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
I call BS. Let's see some links.
That makes sense. Rule breaking assholes are more likely to use drugs and to engage in interpersonal violence creating a correlation between dope and violence.
Old news being presented as something new & ‘dangerous’.
People who suffer from thought disorders shouldn’t use cannabis.
That’s a VERY small population of people.
Been using cannabis daily since 2015. Every aspect of my life has improved & continues to do so. Listen at the link to learn how it all came about!
https://www.carnivorecast.com/podcast/brett
Just google “marijuana psychosis,” you’ll get hundreds of results.
I call BS. Let's see some links.
Just google “marijuana psychosis,”
I'm not doing your homework for you - when YOU make a claim the burden is on YOU to support it.
you’ll get hundreds of results.
I wouldn't expect any of them to be studies demonstrating that marijuana causes permanent brain damage, psychosis and schizophrenia - as you claimed.
“we lack the crucial epidemiological evidence”
Lack of evidence, is not evidence. Such populations (exposed to high levels of cannabis) are markedly different in many respects. Accurate diagnosis and record keeping of psychotic events are very likely to be different across such cultures and sub-cultures. Hallucinations might be viewed as a feature, rather than a bug, to people seeking them, or in shamanic cultures -therefor not diligently reported to the authorities. Violent or destructive behavior from psychotic breaks might be recorded and treated as simple crime.
An epidemiological study is a very academic and abstract method of looking for effects, full of complex confounding factors, especially when direct biological models are easily available (although possible ethically riskier or more difficult for a non-medical academic, better suited to just library research).
Dopamine modulation can very reliably be shown to produce psychotic episodes in vulnerable individuals - just get a borderline psychotic and give them a hundred doses of THC in an extract oil - predictable and repeatable results - they will be tripping.
Give a less susceptible individual a thousand or 10,000 doses. They will also hallucinate profoundly. Seeing and hearing things that are not there is the very definition of psychosis. They would not be diagnosed as psychotics for epidemiological record keeping however, because the condition was induced, and not innate. They would pass a psychological evaluation easily, after the drugs wear off.
to;Dr == “Dave’s not here.”
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