The closer marijuana becomes to being legal the more dangerous it becomes!
Once again members of the mainstream media are running wild with the notion that marijuana use causes schizophrenia and psychosis.
To add insult to injury, this latest dose of reefer rhetoric comes only days after investigators in the United Kingdom reported in the prestigious scientific journal Addiction that the available evidence in support of this theory is â??neither very new, nor by normal criteria, particularly compelling.â?? (Predictably, the conclusions of that study went all together unnoticed by the mainstream press.)
[quote]cryptik wrote:
I smoke 2 joints in the morning
I smoke 2 joints at night
I smoke 2 joints in the afternoon, it makes me feel alright
I smoke 2 joints in time of peace and 2 in times of war
I smoke 2 joints before I smoke 2 joints then I smoke 2 more.[/quote]
you get a high five for that one
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I’m schizophrenic
And I am too
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The disorder that should go into that poem is multiple personality disorder, aka dissociative disorder (if I remember correctly). Schizophrenics see and/or hear things that aren’t there or twist things that are there into something completely different and also think everyone is out to get them or have other similar delusions whereas mpd is pretty self-explanatory.
The movie, A Beautiful Mind does a great job of exhibiting Schizophrenia imo, if anyone is wondering what it’s like. Sorry for the psych class, one of the few times my BA is good for something (yo momma, I’m sure you already knew all that anyway)
Everything in moderation, I always say. Weed is no different. I’ve met people who basically live to smoke weed, when it gets to that point, you need to stop. The thing is that could be said about anything, for the most part. People who live to ____________ need to stop, just fill in the blank and you’ll most likely make a good point (not that there aren’t plenty of exceptions that could go in that blank, such as build muscle or help others).
But for the rest, it is fun/social and they don’t do it too often or are at least responsible about it. In that case, I don’t feel that it hurts anything. Doing some study with so many factors not being controlled won’t change my opinion about anything. It’s funny how weed is so taboo to some people, I think that’s just ignorance, mostly, and I try not to be mad at ingorant people, since it usually isn’t their fault.
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[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
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Spoken like a true warrior.
A warrior doesn’t want to use something that makes him lethargic and stupid. Once in a while, in celebration, warriors cut loose. But that state of mind on a regular basis is only for the cattle.
Great post!!
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im a proud medical marijuana patient under amendment 20 in colorado. i smoke all day long, from dawn til dusk, and im still one of the most hardcharging people i know. ill smoke a blunt of granddaddy purps and still outlift you any day of the week mista warrior man!!
wow, people who dont smoke weed cant understand people who smoke weed. kinda like how people who dont drink dont understand why people drink? maybe being labeled as a scizo is worse than the weed?
plus hallucinating is not limited to drug users. intense meditating can lead to hallucinations, food deprivations etc. so are people who meditate crazy? well, they can’t be “normal” cause “normal” just wanna serve the “society” that they depend on. god forbid you see something no one else could ever see
[quote]A Ninny Mouse wrote:
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
[quote]Beowolf wrote:
Bad science.
Really, really bad science.
Do. Not. Feed.[/quote]
R2D2 knows the difference between good science and bad. Do you?
Why don’t u 'splain it to uz?
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I’ll splain it to you.
The study is a longitudinal study of young adults comparing marijuana smokers against non-smokers. It could be argued that young adults who partake in marijuana smoking might be predisposed to psychosis or emotional problems more generally, thus leading them to smoke marijuana in the first place.
This, compounded by various environmental factors, socio-economic status, protective factors (family relationships), peer relations, all play a role in the behavior young adults. So the study is already problematic, simply because they are using young adults as their test cohort and because they would need to control for all these possible intervening factors in order to isolate marijuana as the single variable leading to psychosis.
HH, without citing the original study with all the measures that were used, as well as the significance tests that prove any kind of statistical significance, it is very difficult to state as a matter of fact that this study proves that marijuana use leads to psychosis.
I also highly doubt that Bloomberg.com truly examined the clinical study and any of these possible problematic assertions, but rather pulled out the minute talking points that make it a sexy topic that garners page views. Nevermind the researchers themselves, who are just happy enough to data-thump and get themselves published and consequently cited.
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Wow that was awesome. Analysis done for the lazy! You rock![/quote]
You must be unemployed, or unemployable. Put down the bong, Junior.
[quote]1000yardstare wrote:
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
[quote]Rohnyn wrote:
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Spoken like a true warrior.
A warrior doesn’t want to use something that makes him lethargic and stupid. Once in a while, in celebration, warriors cut loose. But that state of mind on a regular basis is only for the cattle.
Great post!!
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im a proud medical marijuana patient under amendment 20 in colorado. i smoke all day long, from dawn til dusk, and im still one of the most hardcharging people i know. ill smoke a blunt of granddaddy purps and still outlift you any day of the week mista warrior man!!
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I think someone put weedkiller in your bong.