The Cannabis Catastrophe (Pot softens brains: Stoners don't care)

The Daily Mail [UK] ^ | January 26 2003 | Melanie Phillips

[robertpaulsen]

"Two words - "peer review"."

Two words - "cognitive dissonance".

[tacticalogic]

Ah, the article, rather than the research. Very well. And you think we should take this woman's claims at face value? It's really about a cannabis user becoming a schizo, and not a hypochondriac looking for a scapegoat?

[tacticalogic]

Two words - "cognitive dissonance".

Your level regard for objectivity is noted.

[bird4four4]

Please cite one post by a member of the 'pro-pot element' that condones the use of cannabis by adolescents.

[bird4four4]

All it shows is that people who are scitzo tend to smoke MJ. Have you ever read any data on how many scitzos smoke tabacco? It is more profound than MJ. Anyone want to say that tabacco causes scitzo, or that scitzos smoke tabacco? Why with MJ are you so quick to say that MJ cases scitzo rather than scitzos smoke MJ? Approaching a study with a disired result can cause this.

[TKDietz]

She made it up.

[TKDietz]

I agree completely.

[donh]

I'm sure you'd just love to twist this around and have us believe that this woman is a psychotic who decided to try marijuana.

As opposed to the claim, unsupported by any medical or forensic authority of any merit, that any amount of marijuana consumption, unaided by medical tools, could cause psychosis? To get psychosis from marijuana, you have to step up the concentrations of a couple of the cannabanoids in it beyond any possibility of smoking yourself into psychosis. And, incidently, under the right circumstances, a doctor is allowed to put you at that risk using a little pill called marinol, which is exactly that recipe. Pretty amusing eh? If you are poor, black and stupid, you can go to jail for something which, if you are rich, white and connected, you can get from a doctor at 100 times the dosage.