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Reefer Madness May Be Real

Posted by JacobSloan on February 3, 2010

Can smoking marijuana heavily make you psychotic?

Legitimate studies point to marijuana use as a risk factor for developing schizophrenia. Filmmaker Bruce Mohun made The Downside Of High after his pot-smoking nephew descended into severe mental illness.

A person who uses marijuana regularly is twice as likely to become schizophrenic as someone who doesn’t, with those smoking before the age of 16 being four times as likely. Acknowledgment a link between marijuana and paranoid schizophrenia does not necessarily bolster the argument for prohibition; one could argue that legalizing pot in fact help the problem, by leading to regulation, quality control, standards, and warning labels.

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  • DeepCough
    First and foremost, schizophrenia is what you call a "fake illness," because it belongs to that branch of disease known as "mental illness," which cannot be put under a microscope like AIDS, Ebola, or even swine flu. Furthermore, I agree with jerrry: the kid's probably smoking either shitty quality cannabis or it's laced with something (opium, PCP, cocaine, or adulterants to enhance weight for sale). And just as well, maybe the kid isn't predisposed to weed physiologically in the way a fat person is physiologically predisposed to alcohol, so his body just can't cope with all those cannabinoids at once. Does the doc address any of those issues, I wonder?
  • GoodDoktorBad
    All my personalities agree that pot is good....
    My cat Mario says its Da-best!!
  • deuce42
    LOL! What a bunch of hogwash! That would mean a huge percentage of the population would be schizophrenic, especially in places like Jamaica, Amsterdam, Canada, California, etc. Drug companies scared by competition from mother nature? The paranoia comes from cultural conditioning and drug laws, IMO.
  • mt4564
    This is really disinformation - does smoking marijuana make you schizophrenic or does being schizophrenic make you more inclined to use marijuana, I think we should ban schizophrenia personally. This is trash news! Lets not forget that most of the legal mood enhancing drugs really do make you crazy - we know why your really picking on the 'herb of wisdom'
  • jerrry
    First off... Marijuana is not a psychedelic, it is considered a stimulant. Second, I have known thousands of potheads...NONE had symptoms that resemble schizophrenia. However, I have known thousands of alcohol consumers and MANY developed symptoms of addiction. Some have died from alcohol related incidents. My friends liver completely crapped out on him and he's dead.

    Don't buy into this bogus BS story. There is good stuff on this site but don't take this at face value. However, do take seriously the claims that people have used cannabinoids and thc to cure various illnesses including cancer. DO THE RESEARCH FRIENDS
  • biogord
    Professor David Nutt, the ex-head of the UK government think tank on drugs stated that it would take stopping between 2000 and 5000 young men from regularly smoking weed to prevent 1 case of cannabis-induced schizophrenia. He was fired soon after publicly releasing these facts.
  • nick__nick
    I've noticed people who smoke a lot of weed are generally crankier when they're not stoned. They also get kind of selfish in a lot of ways.
  • jerrry
    they're smoking shitty weed.
  • Gabriel
    All research I've come across suggests that marijuana, as well as other psychedelics, can only bring about latent schizophrenia. Further, researchers agree that psychedelics bring about schizophrenia that would have presented itself regardless, acting only as a catalyst for it.
  • jerrry
    That is another great point. This individual could have very well been genetically predisposed to mental illness. Many use marijuana to treat mental illness. I've got a buddy who managed to come off of three prescription meds in exchange for a twice daily dose of some fine cannabis.

    This is just as big of a conspiracy as any other money making scam over the past 60 or so years.
  • jerrry
    http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE57I02Z200...

    information all around the web on people curing themselves with cannabis extract. Google "Rick Simpson" and watch his story. He's on the run because he's been curing cancer with marijuana extract. NO JOKE FRIENDS
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