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[UK] Supposed Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link 'Overstated'
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Suppose Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link 'Overstated'
February 19, 2010 - enewspf.com

Bristol, United Kingdom – Clinical evidence indicating that marijuana use may be casually linked to incidences of schizophrenia or other psychological harms is not compelling, according to a scientific review published online by the journal Addiction.

Investigators at the University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine assessed the potential health risks of cannabis, particularly whether use of the drug may be causally linked with mental illness.

Authors wrote: "We continue to take the view that the evidence that cannabis use causes schizophrenia is neither very new, nor by normal criteria, particularly compelling. ... For example, our recent modeling suggests that we would need to prevent between 3000 and 5000 cases of heavy cannabis use among young men and women to prevent one case of schizophrenia, and that four or five times more young people would need to avoid light cannabis use to prevent a single schizophrenia case. ... We conclude that the strongest evidence of a possible causal relation between cannabis use and schizophrenia emerged more than 20 years ago and that the strength of more recent evidence may have been overstated."

In 2007, an analysis in the British medical journal The Lancet estimated that experimenting with marijuana could increase one's risk of developing a psychotic illness later in life by some 40 percent. Following this report, Parliament in 2008 voted to reclassify marijuana as a Class B substance, making its possession punishable by up to five years in prison.

University of Bristol researchers also criticized Parliament's reclassification of the drug, which took effect earlier this year. They concluded: "The only important possible benefit of prohibition is prevention of cannabis use. There is little or no evidence that it effectively achieves this benefit. Patterns of cannabis use in the population appear to be independent of the policy surrounding use, and criminalizing individual cannabis users does not appear to modify their use in a healthy way."

Overall, investigators determined that marijuana's most significant health risk was its association and reinforcement with tobacco smoking.

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Re: [UK] Supposed Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link 'Overstated' [Re: veggie]
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Fucking LEGALIZE IT!  To all the undercover cops stalking the boards, your retarded policy doesn't work and is prolonging the suffering of America.


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Re: [UK] Supposed Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link 'Overstated' [Re: Newfound_wonder]
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Normal schizophrenia rates are about 1 in 200 and we are worry about something that would add 1 in 4000? Forget that is from non-stop and almost abusive smoking of marijuana that causes people to hear shit.

I hate the "pot causes schizophrenia" argument. I had to sit through my history teacher lecture about it and also how people have a genetic tendency for addiction to pot and alcohol. This "fact" needs to die. :commonsense:

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Re: [UK] Supposed Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link 'Overstated' [Re: Rabid Jelly Bean]
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Wow 1 in 4000 is statistically irrelevant. I'm really getting tired of the smart people who acknowledge the facts being ignored by the bureaucratic governments. I guess politicians think they know better than the truth :S "Well we know what your faancy study says but I got a gut feeling that pot is bad. Stoners are lazy remember??? we hate them!"

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Re: [UK] Supposed Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link 'Overstated' [Re: Rabid Jelly Bean]
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Rabid Jelly Bean said:
Normal schizophrenia rates are about 1 in 200 and we are worry about something that would add 1 in 4000? Forget that is from non-stop and almost abusive smoking of marijuana that causes people to hear shit.

I hate the "pot causes schizophrenia" argument. I had to sit through my history teacher lecture about it and also how people have a genetic tendency for addiction to pot and alcohol. This "fact" needs to die. :commonsense:


Agree, but tendency for addiction definitely has a genetic component. I know this based on my own family.


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Re: [UK] Supposed Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link 'Overstated' [Re: Sophistic Radiance]
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Does having a latent illness predispose you to experiment with drugs?


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Re: [UK] Supposed Marijuana And Schizophrenia Link 'Overstated' [Re: durian_2008]
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In a lot of cases, yes, which is why this "conclusion" is dubious.

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