Okay... Now i'm angry.

[pass_the_dubbie]

I first seen this on a news broadcast the otherday, not sure which one it was. They were going through all the stories then they came to this one. The reporter literally read the headline out "new studies show cannabis fucks you up after one joint" and moved onto another story without stating sources or anything. Then on Friday I walk into the shop, my girlfriends at the counter and I look at the newspapers...i see the headline yet again with an article on it...It really is major bullshit but what im seeing now is more people are realising the benefits of cannabis. Even my dad was talking about the benefits when we were talking about how bad smoking cigarettes is....I think the u.k needs more positive press for cannabis instead of all this negative shit that isnt doing anybody any good. I hope a few decades later kids are being taught about the cannabis propaganda they shoved down are faces instead of what they are "learning" about it now.

[Nocturnal Stoner]

well who controls the media?...the government.

[JD1stTimer]

Chronisseur: My claim was that playing GTA and smoking a blunt at the same time would... well, yeah, what I already said. I was being deliberately ridiculous though, I was trying to exaggerate as much as the media does. Wow even in real life people think I'm serious when I'm joking. lol. And yeah, I do need a puff.

[azure]

lol JD i seen the humour in it... thought it was pretty obvious myself

[qdavid]

I posted about this in other threads but this thread is getting more play, so I guess I should post here. Our Brit friends may be unaware how this little story that originated there, has blown up into a major news story here. It's been on CNN, ABC, USA Today, and (of course) Fox. Even though a retraction/explanation was published, it didn't get any attention. The 40% increase chance of psychosis being a sensational story, does get the attention, no matter what is said later. Now the ladies on the "View" T.V. show even quoted it today. Even though it's totally untrue. My problem, is that millions of viewers see that and believe it, setting back medicinal use, or acceptance in general, back 50 years. The kid murdering his Dad is gone, but that 40% thing is gonna hang. I would think the AMA or NORML or some of the big organizations would get involved. What are they waiting for? It's not going just go away. It's just getting worse and worse.

[Markass]

Cardiff University researcher Dr Stanley Zammit added: 'Even if cannabis does cause an increased risk of developing psychosis, most people who use cannabis will not develop such an illness.

uh oh, what happened to 40%? no offense, but people in england are fucking stupid when it comes to marijuana, even the scientists...

damage done by marijuana? WTF, so dying from lung cancer from cigarettes isn't as bad? alcohol poisoning isn't as bad? fuck these fucking fucks.

There's too many people in America that know the truth..especially the younger generation..we don't believe bullshit like this...shit, look at abovetheinfluence...your dog says don't get high please..

[LIP]

Cardiff University researcher Dr Stanley Zammit added: 'Even if cannabis does cause an increased risk of developing psychosis, most people who use cannabis will not develop such an illness.

uh oh, what happened to 40%? no offense, but people in england are fucking stupid when it comes to marijuana, even the scientists...

damage done by marijuana? WTF, so dying from lung cancer from cigarettes isn't as bad? alcohol poisoning isn't as bad? fuck these fucking fucks.

There's too many people in America that know the truth..especially the younger generation..we don't believe bullshit like this...shit, look at abovetheinfluence...your dog says don't get high please..

Exactly. They make up these stupid figures that are complete lies, and then they cover themselves.

They keep saying cannabis is causing all these mental health illnesses, but it's not. It's the same chancers as everyone else. Virtually nil.

[horror business]

Thats funny, Im thinking that weed has given me the patience to AVOID choking people on a daily basis!!! Wheres MY study?:wtf:

I agree.

[Staurm]

Cardiff University researcher Dr Stanley Zammit added: 'Even if cannabis does cause an increased risk of developing psychosis, most people who use cannabis will not develop such an illness.

uh oh, what happened to 40%?

A 40% increase in already hardly anyone who develops psychosis still amounts to about the same, ie. few people will still be unaffected by mental health problems. The extra 40% on top of the non-toking psychos is still a small figure compared to the number of people who have used cannabis. The media is using this research and delivering it in a form that is deliberately misleading.

[Staurm]

BBC NEWS | Health | Cannabis harm worse than tobacco

Yeah yeah heard it. If it's so bad then just smoke it pure like I do!

But then there's still the 40% greater risk of going schitzo!

So.... 58.333333333333333333333% (140/240*100) of people who go psycho have smoked cannabis. What then causes the other 41.666666666666666666667% to go nuts then, fresh air?

I'm going to kill a fucking journalist one these days I tell ya!

"The research, published in the journal Thorax, found cannabis damaged the large airways in the lungs causing symptoms such as coughing and wheezing."

CANNABIS damages the airways they say... so it's nothing to do with the TOBACCO that is also in there I assume, or the fact there is not so much of a filter? Did they do any research on people who smoke it pure then? I guess not.