Schizophrenia

[Plutoniummatt]

Hey guys, dunno about this but....on 29/01/05 i saw on TV that weed causes Pschosis and Schizophrenia if you smoke on a daily basis from the age of 15 or below........it is kinda freakin me out And it was from a reliable resource : BBC News 24

Plutoniummatt Reviewed by Plutoniummatt on 01-29-2005. Schizophrenia Hey guys, dunno about this but....on 29/01/05 i saw on TV that weed causes Pschosis and Schizophrenia if you smoke on a daily basis from the age of 15 or below........it is kinda freakin me out :eek: And it was from a reliable resource : BBC News 24 Rating: 5

[Jimmicrackedcorn]

Cannabis can precipitate or exacerbate latent or existing mental disorders, so you sooner or later would have succomb to schizophrenia, jus weed CAN be a catalyst, not 100% iron clad, and BBC News 24 is a terrible source man. This is the same broadcasting company that made out ecstasy killed Leah Betts, when really it was the paranoia caused by the media at the time that was the real cause, she worried she would dehydrate so drank copious amounts of water and died of brain swelling from water intoxication.

www.erowid.com is a reliable source

[Jimmicrackedcorn]

http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~streater/cannabis.html

"In the study in New Zealand, analysed in [2], 3 out of 29 patients who were heavy users of cannabis suffered long-term psychotic damage. This is more than one in ten. In [3], other studies are included in an analysis, and adjustments made, and the authors conclude that the association overall for heavy users is 3%, compared with 1% for light users and non-users. Thus 97% of heavy users might expect not to suffer ill effects ten years later. This shows that, if heavy use is a cause, it is not effective on its own. One could form the hypothesis that there is a predisposition [present in 3% of the population] for cannabis to cause schizophrenia, and for those without the predisposition, smoking pot is not going to cause long-term schizophrenia. Since we do not know how to identify this condition, each of us has a risk of being among "the chosen few". If cannabis use is a cause, then by using cannabis (fifty times a year for several teenage years) we increase our risk by a factor of about 3.

But if cannabis were not a cause of long term illness, but is merely associated with it, then if a person is among the "chosen few", and he is persuaded not to use cannabis, this decision would not do him any good; he would get ill anyway. This is the implication of the failure of direction."