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(like most schizophrenics, Viszmeg is a chain smoker),

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Schizophrenia has shown hereditary trends; perhaps there is some genetic mutation which causes the abnormal brain development during adolescence-

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Genetics help to determine how the brain uses certain chemicals. People with schizophrenia have a chemical imbalance which means they are either very sensitive to or produce too much of a brain chemical called dopamine. Dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter, allows nerve cells in the brain to send messages to each other. The imbalance of this chemical affects the way a person's brain reacts to stimuli--

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Maybe schizophrenics should also avoid chocolate, sugar, red meat and cheese since all cause your brain to produce dopamine. I doubt anyone would buy chain smoking cigs. causes schizophrenia, even though most schizophrenics chain smoke. Although I guess you could write a story linking the two like that. Which is all this is.

Oh yeah when its hot apparently alot of icecream is sold so icecream is effecting global warming More likely schizos are drawn to pot like their chainsmoking. When a schizo smokes pot it can trigger a schizo episode thats proven."The same effect has been shown at Yale Medical School, where volunteers were given THC -people with schizophrenia had a brief exacerbation of their psychosis."

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perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe schizophrenia is a genetic disorder

thus, it's either in you're genetic makeup and you can develop it, or it isn't and you won't regardless of how much pot you smoke.

surely, if you have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, psychedelic substances have the potential to bring that out. no surprise there.

according to wikipedia, roughly 0.4–0.6% (6/10ths of one percent) of the world's population is affected by the genetic disorder.

i'm real concerned... so concerned I'm gonna go pack my roor and enjoy this rainy afternoon.

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tsquad said:

Continuum said:

perhaps I am mistaken, but I believe schizophrenia is a genetic disorder

thus, it's either in you're genetic makeup and you can develop it, or it isn't and you won't regardless of how much pot you smoke.

surely, if you have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, psychedelic substances have the potential to bring that out. no surprise there.

according to wikipedia, roughly 0.4–0.6% (6/10ths of one percent) of the world's population is affected by the genetic disorder.

i'm real concerned... so concerned I'm gonna go pack my roor and enjoy this rainy afternoon.

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Unfortunately you are mistaken...anyone CAN develop schizophrenia, the genetic aspect comes into play determining how likely and/or susceptible you are to developing it. A certain experience to someone without the genetic susceptibility may not cause anything to happen, whereas it may precipitate schizophrenia in a person with that genetic problem.

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that's exactly what I said... if schizophrenia is in your genetic makeup, then there's a chance it will come to manifest itself, and certain activities or events can bring the previously latent disorder to the surface.

BUT, you need that genetic predisposition for it to surface. if you don't have it genetically, you never will have it, regardless of what happens to you.

this latter part applies to 99.4-99.6% of our population. the remainder applies to the former, and that unfortunate group should avoid the use of psychedelics

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Some studies have looked at the family background of people who were adopted at an early age and who later developed schizophrenia. One study found that 13% of the biological relatives of the adoptees with schizophrenia also had schizophrenia, but only 2% of the relatives of "normal" adoptees had schizophrenia. These studies support the role of genetics in schizophrenia.

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Diuretics prescribed after the first trimester for treatment of hypertension in pregnant women may interfere with normal plasma volume expansion and cause volume depletion. The authors hypothesized that prenatal exposure to diuretics and maternal hypertension might disrupt fetal neurodevelopment and increase the risk of schizophrenia in offspring. Since preeclampsia may impair fetal growth, it has been suggested that the etiopathogenesis of schizophrenia might involve a reduced nutritional supply to the fetus

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Theres cases of identical twins with one schizo and the other normal. So yes, schizo has some environmental factors. Probably prenatal.


This research is bull, and is more anti-marijuana propaganda than actual research. An undiagnosed schizo smoked pot and it triggered a schizo episode. Theres schizos undiagnosed that eventually might get diagnosed somehow. Like if stress is what got him diagnosed, would we say stress causes schizophrenia or its a triggering factor in genetic schizos. There`s little kids with schizophrenia and adults who have never smoked pot in their life. IF they can diagnose schizo that early in life, any environmental factors where prenatal. Probably when your brain was developing. I dont think pregnant women or little kids should smoke pot.

The victim here is science. Since there`s organizations out there willing to misinform the public to promote hidden agendas. They would love this fallacy to get published and become mainstream recognized science. Isnt the medical community still trying to clarify alot of b.s. propaganda from ages ago. Touted as "science"?

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However, the rates in the youngest age groups showed a strong increase in the second half of the 1990's. The trend reversal among the youngest age groups coincides with the increased use of cannabis among young Swiss in the 1990's.

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