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Originally Posted by BubbleFunker
from hwhobbs: On the other hand, cannabis HAS been proven to be a major risk factor if you have a biological history for mental disorders. If someone like your aunt or grandfather has manic depression or schitzophrenia, there is a very good likelyhood that weed will speed up the onset of the disorder if you smoke enough.
Please show me the proof. I have studied all the available research/studies, of which there are very few, and none of them are conclusive, and all of them are flawed studies. If you have proof, meaning a credible, evidence based paper of this, please show me. Most of the studies tried to demonstrate a causal relationship, but could not. Either their study group was too small, or they relied only on self report from those same small groups. You'd have to have some knowledge of scientific research protocol to know what I mean, perhaps. Most people merely see a headline, and assume they know what the study is about, but know nothing of how it was done, or how to interpret the results.
In all the studies, the words "may" "possibly" show up. There was never any definitive, absolutely positive correlation or causal relationship proven, that I saw.
I'm a scientist, prove me incorrect.
The anti-cannabis people keep trying to find some horrid thing wrong with cannabis, but have had fuck-all of a time doing so.
All the meds on the market, ones approved by the FDA, have "side-effects" and warn people of them. Cannabis need only do that as well.
Side-effects include: "possible" increase in mania, intense hunger, intense thoughtfulness, ability to be easily amused, sleepiness, distortion or augmentation of sound, intense relaxation, . . . . etc.
But never death, or any of the many heinous things I hear daily in the TV ads for supposedly benign medications.
Almost all medications on the market can kill you, or make your life crappy in some other way then the way your illness did.
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BubbleFunker, in some ways you're right... there is no written documents that state that marijuana will cause schizophrenia or any other mental disorder. what I'm saying is that it is a RISK FACTOR meaning if you abuse it and you have a family history, there is a good likelyhood you will develop a disorder. This is what happened in my case.
My only sources are multiple psychiatrists, pyscho-pharmacologists, and psychologists and Mass General Hospital and Harvard's Psychiatric Hospital called McLean hospital. I don't get my information from reading or anything, just personal experience... that's all I can say.
I love to smoke weed, I am in no way condemning it, I just want other people like me to know what's out there, and if you can, grow your own shit because its better like that.