Young people with a family history of mental illness be warned.

[somebody someone]

I know, I apologize. I know you are not ignorant.

It's just that schizophrenia is really traumatic for people, and I know it would offend the schizophrenic people I know if they read that it was "another term for open-mindedness".

dont you think it would offend them twice as much?

[Satan666]

Commercially funded bullshit.

[powair]

dont you think it would offend them twice as much?

What??

[drgreenthumb1238]

Think it was meant as a joke, that it would offend "both personalities" hmmmm

[somebody someone]

yeah something like that

[vincevaper]

Multiple personality disorder is not schizophrenia. That is a common misconception. The disconnect with schizophrenia occurs between the inner and outer self, it is not a split among selves. Theories on 'what is normality' aside, people with schizophrenia suffer a great deal as do their families. Jokes are funnier when the facts they are based on aren't so... well, wrong.

[CocaCola]

Is your cousin schizophrenic or possessed?

AHAHA~!

I like it when people think schizophrenia is in anyway related to such an illness that causes people to talk to inanimate abjects. That is not the way things work but... I guess we've already established that fact. Thank you, Vince Vaper.

[BlueCat00]

there are several theories on the cause of Schizophrenia...
My step daughter has it and we think it was caused by a virus...but weed had nothing to do with it. That is just more BS propaganda...

http://www.schizophrenia.sk.ca/causes.htm

Taken in small doses, cannabis is a very safe sedative for most people, probably including some people with mental illness. But consider the "set and setting" of marijuana under marijuana prohibition. Obviously, it is difficult in California and impossible elsewhere in the world -- with the partial exception of Holland, another topic â?? for a doctor even to discuss the medical use of cannabis with anyone who is mentally ill. Patients may even be told that marijuana is a very dangerous drug. They will certainly be arrested and placed under even greater stress if caught using it. However, what if they use it, and find that it helps them? Is this good? Remember we are talking about someone who is mentally ill finding out that something that is anathematized actually helps them. That sort of thing could drive you crazy.

The point is that while some of the psychotic episodes associated with marijuana use may be caused by the marijuana and others may simply be correlated to failed self-medication, it is also worth considering that the set and setting of marijuana prohibition help create these conditions.

I agree with what Richard Cowans says: some of the marijuana related psychotic episodes might actually be iatrogenic â?? caused by the medical profession.
Many people with mental problems are on so many other drugs it would be impossible to tell what caused certain episodes...they are once again screaming reefer madness.