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Neptune Bleeds · Oct 26, 2009

Lol isn't this interesting. If you smoked pot when you were 15, you have a 450% increased chance to become psychotic.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/jun/17/thisweekssciencequestions

tharedhead · Oct 26, 2009

Neptune Bleeds said:

Lol isn't this interesting. If you smoked pot when you were 15, you have a 450% increased chance to become psychotic.
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So that means you are psychotic 4.5 times after that?

Neptune Bleeds · Oct 26, 2009

Read the thread...I forgot to post it at first.

tharedhead · Oct 26, 2009

Oh, Robin Murray-here is a long and quite interesting interview with him...
Schizophrenia Research Forum: SRF Interviews

(as per the good doctor) Being brought up in a city increases your risk too, but I don't see anyone suggesting all children should be brought up out in the country. His theories are a good deal more complex than that propaganda article gives him credit for...

So when you ask what is the cause, I say there is no single cause. There are contributory causes or risk factors, just like for heart disease. You may inherit susceptibility genes that affect your cholesterol, your clotting times, your blood pressure, diabetes. Your genes can make you liable to heart disease, but then you may compound the genetic predisposition if you become obese, smoke cigarettes, and don't exercise. My model for the causes of schizophrenia is a similar, multifactorial one.
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It is difficult to look at the relationship between environmental and genetic factors, but we have examined that question in relation to cannabis. We now know that there is an interaction between the catechol-O-methyl transferase gene (COMT), which some regard as a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia, and cannabis consumption. People with the Val/Val variant of COMT are much more likely to develop psychosis if they abuse cannabis in their adolescence, but there is no evidence that people with the Val/Val genotype of COMT actually take more cannabis than the rest of the population. So it's not that the cannabis consumption is a manifestation of predisposition to schizophrenia. Rather, cannabis consumption interacts with genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia. The result is that the majority of the population can abuse as much cannabis as they like and don't come to much harm. But a vulnerable minority, about 25 percent of the population, is prone to psychotic reactions if they take regular cannabis (Caspi et al., 2005).

SRF: Is cannabis use a large factor?

RM: Many American psychiatrists still regard cannabis consumption as safe, but it's become a very lively issue in Europe where most psychiatrists regard cannabis consumption as a cause of schizophrenia. However, the evidence is that it accounts for only a minority of schizophrenia. We found that if no one in New Zealand smoked cannabis, then the incidence of schizophrenia would decrease by about 8 percent; the comparable figures for Germany are 10 percent, and for Holland, 13 percent
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