BBC news website: "Cannabis use 'raises psychosis risk' - study"

[soulfood]

now im scared to try marijuana because im afraid of getting psychosis

Me too... I'm also scared to try sunshine in case I get cancer.

WHAT DO I DOOOOO?!?!?!?

 

[joedirt]

now im scared to try marijuana because im afraid of getting psychosis

Me too... I'm also scared to try sunshine in case I get cancer.

WHAT DO I DOOOOO?!?!?!?

LOL

 

[polytrip]

Multiple studies have been done on this topic. Everything indicates that cannabis can function as a catalyst for psychosis in people with a predisposition for develloping such mental disorders, so that people get the psychosis at an earlier stage in life. It has never been proven that 'normal' people also have an increased chance of becoming psychotic.

Didn't you mean schizophrenia?
Anyone can have a psychosis given enough mental stress. (Which basically should make it obvious that cannabis
can be a catalyst although rarely).

Well, schizophrenia is a disorder of wich psychosis is one of the main characteristic's. It is only logical to assume that all disorders featuring psychotic episodes, from serious bipolar disorders to schizoid personality disorders, could be worsened by the use of cannabis. Or even that what aplies to psychoses, aplies to all mental disorders in general. Cannabis is also known to be a depressogenic substance for instance.

I don't see how this is anti-cannabis propaganda. It's something as saying that rock-climbing could cause panick-attacks in persons who suffer from extreme vertigo.

The main argument for legalisation is: there are all kinds of activities that could be risky for people with a certain vulnarability, but does that legitimise a total ban for everybody?
You don't want blind people to drive cars, does that mean all cars should be banned?
Some people can die from eating a single peanut, does that mean all peanut featuring products including peanuts themselves should be banned? etc.

Trying to deny the fact that there are vulnerable people out there is no way to go in the debate about cannabis' legal status, because it's a lost cause.

 

[imPsimon]

I don't see how this is anti-cannabis propaganda. It's something as saying that rock-climbing could cause panick-attacks in persons who suffer from extreme vertigo.

I think it was a good study and I dont think it's anti-cannabis propaganda. I was commenting on your remark about
people accusing it of being politically motivated which it doesn't seem to be.
Whenever anybody say or write something negative about cannabis there is very often strong
resistance to the fact that it has any negative sides.

 

[ElusiveMind]

Supposedly the risk has to do with high THC levels and lower CBD levels.

The following link has the news article and links to the sources of the studies... haven't looked into it too much but its a good read

Lack of balance in weed

 

[Rivea]

now im scared to try marijuana because im afraid of getting psychosis

Me too... I'm also scared to try sunshine in case I get cancer.

WHAT DO I DOOOOO?!?!?!?

LOL

I long ago stopped smoking MJ because it screwed with my memory so badly I would have had to drop out from my graduate program. So, the cannabis went instead.

But psychosis, come on....

 

[dreamer042]

now im scared to try marijuana because im afraid of getting psychosis

Me too... I'm also scared to try sunshine in case I get cancer.

WHAT DO I DOOOOO?!?!?!?

Just keep drinking the chlorinated fluoridated water and eating artificial colors and flavors. These things are safe :roll:

 

[yaxar]

I use hasheesh more or less on a daily basis since 3 years now. Been dry for several days. Have i become psychotic?
Yes, if psychosis means increased awareness of my surrounding, so hells yeah.. Been an AMOK!
AMOK for music, AMOK for fruits, oranges, apples and strawberries. AMOK for tiny details of life.
I do get paranoid on hasheesh but i use that moment as an opportunity to dig deeper and instantly connect to a deeper part of self.
it's the ever changing set and setting, on hasheesh, that really scares the shit out of me, but hey, m glad to be paranoid, glad to feel fear and be shocked and awed, again and again and again. Really helps me shed my identity and just become one with my breathe.