Originally posted by Schecter
what, pointless things like the article being a complete fabrication from a ****ing gossip tabloid? yeah, superficial indeed. 🙄
Originally posted by KidRock
I say make it all legal. Let the retards smoke themselves retarded and to death..wouldn't be a loss.
Good point,I think they do now though and at least whilst it's illegal law enforment officers get the fun of abusing the drug taking scum with humiliating searches and the chance to beat them up in the cells.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
Fabrication?
congratulations on posting a valid source. sometimes with you its like pulling teeth.
anyway, more government scare tactics and fudging of numbers. the only bit of truth:
One doctor noted that people with a history of mental illness in their families could be at higher risk. For them, marijuana use "could unmask the underlying schizophrenia," said Dr. Deepak Cyril D'Souza, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale University, who was not involved in the study.
which everyone already knew.
I will never cease to be amazed at the capacity of people to be so enthralled and supportive of science when it confirms their already held beliefs about the world, but to then be so dismissive of it without any signifigant investigation when it creates the slightest conflict with what they already think.
But clearly work published in The Lancet is motivated by conservative government agents. Oh, but wait, they published a report last year lambasting the government drug policy and laws, saying they had no relevance to the actual dangers posed by the drugs. But clearly, CLEARLY, the Lancet, one of the world's most preeminent medical journals, is being bought by government interests to promote non scientific claims. That is how they must have done it to become as respected as they are these days.
Originally posted by debbiejo
Everyone should have their fill of dopamine. It's a a good thing. Especailly at Thanksgiving. ✅Gotta love those Neurotransmitters.
dopaminergic responses in the hippocampus are responsible for chemical addiction 😛
Its what makes coke and amphetamines so addictive, and also why people can become addicted to other things that give them that dopamine rush, ala sex, gambling ect...
I'm suprised it took this long for someone to post it.
Re: Dope 'causes schizophrenia'?
Originally posted by Bicnarok
I heard on the news today that "new evidence emerged that the drug (cannabis) could more than double the risk of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia. "Could this be just a scare tactic to stop people taking it, schizophrenic people may be actually right about things, and that cannabis heightens their senses in some way🙂
What do you lot think, ?
I think it is more likely that people who have a tendency toward psychotic illnesses to self medicate with pot, then pot causing schizophrenia.
Re: Re: Dope 'causes schizophrenia'?
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I think it is more likely that people who have a tendency toward psychotic illnesses to self medicate with pot, then pot causing schizophrenia.
great point, but controlled for though
It is a meta analysis of existing research, so there are some things to be said about its ability to make any findings that claim causality, in fact, the author says this: "I don't think you can be certain that this is a causal relationship", and goes on to highlight that there may be unknown confounding variables (though I think that what you are talking about would have been controlled for [unfortunatly I cannot find the full article 🙁])
one of the authors is interviewed in the Lancet podcast, which I am listening to now:
http://podcast.thelancet.com/audio/lancet/2007/9584_28july.mp3
hopefully the link works, if not, go to the lancet homepage (http://www.thelancet.com/home), the first article should be about this, with a "listen to The Lancet" option.
Originally posted by PiruBlood
i think people who are already schitzo will get more deadlyer if they smoke some weed. my cousin is scizo and never touched a drug in her life. marijuana can probably do alot to a persons brain function. i smoke weed and i dont get crazy. but the truth of the matter is everyone is diffrent.
What is scizo?
Originally posted by Creshosk
I'm tempted to say that's along the lines of conspiracy theory.After all we can produce other produce in our own gardens as well.
I would say it's a lot easier to grow weed than it is to produce alcohol or tobacco - tobacco needs mass refinement, tar, bonus cancer added, alcohol is a little simpler but is still hard to make.
Weed, you just put some seeds in a room with powerful lights.
Originally posted by eggmayo
I would say it's a lot easier to grow weed than it is to produce alcohol or tobacco - tobacco needs mass refinement, tar, bonus cancer added, alcohol is a little simpler but is still hard to make.Weed, you just put some seeds in a room with powerful lights.
I simply can't get any alcohol to produce, i put a couple of bottles in the room together play them soft music, but, I get nothing at all.