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Rahz
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Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40%
#7232295 - 07/27/07 10:53 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Daily Mail
This was linked from Drudgereport. Millions and millions of people will be reading this.
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There are great risks in smoking cannabis, a new report has revealed A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing study warns.
The Government-commissioned report has also found that taking the drug regularly more than doubles the risk of serious mental illness.
Overall, cannabis could be to blame for one in seven cases of schizophrenia and other life-shattering mental illness, the Lancet reports.
The grim statistics - the latest to link teenage cannabis use with mental illness in later life - come only days after Gordon Brown ordered a review of the decision to downgrade cannabis to class C, the least serious category.
The Prime Minister is said to have a 'personal instinct' that the change should be reversed, with more arrests and stiffer penalties for users.
Cannabis has been implicated in a string of vicious killings, including the recent stabbing of fashion designer Lucy Braham.
The authors of the latest study, the most comprehensive of its kind and commissioned by the Department of Health, said: 'Policymakers need to provide the public with advice about this widely-used drug.
'We believe there is now enough evidence to inform people that using cannabis could increase their risk of developing a psychotic illness later in life.'
The analysis does not look at the age at which schizophrenia is likely to develop. However, previous studies have shown that smoking the drug as a teenager raises the risk of developing schizophrenia in one's twenties or thirties.
The researchers, from four British universities, analysed the results of 35 studies into cannabis use from around the world. This suggested that trying cannabis only once was enough to raise the risk of schizophrenia by 41 per cent.
At greatest risk, however, were heavy users, with those who took cannabis over 100 times having more than double the risk of those who never touched the drug.
With up to 40 per cent of teenagers and young adults in the UK believed to have tried cannabis, the researchers estimate that the drug could be behind 14 per cent of cases of schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses.
'Although individual lifetime risk of chronic psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, even in people who use cannabis regularly, is likely to be low - less than three per cent - cannabis use can be expected to have a substantial effect on psychotic disorders at a population level because exposure to this drug is so common.'
Cardiff University researcher Dr Stanley Zammit added: 'Even if cannabis does cause an increased risk of developing psychosis, most people who use cannabis will not develop such an illness.
'Nevertheless, we would still advise people to avoid or limit their use of this drug, especially if they start to develop any mental health symptoms, or if they have relatives with psychotic illnesses.'
In an accompanying editorial in the Lancet, Dutch psychiatrists said the focus on heroin, cocaine and other Class A drugs meant the dangers of cannabis had been overlooked.
'In the public debate, cannabis has been considered a more or less harmless drug compared with alcohol, central stimulants and opioids.
'However, the potential long-term hazardous effects of cannabis with regard to psychosis seem to have been overlooked, and there is a need to warn the public of these dangers, as well as to establish a treatment to help young frequent cannabis users.'
Previous studies have shown a clear link between cannabis use in the teenage years and mental illness in later life.
Research completed by leading psychiatrist Professor Robin Murray in 2005 showed that those who smoked the drug regularly at 18 were 1.6 times more likely to suffer serious psychiatric problems, including schizophrenia, by their mid-20s.
For those who were regular users at 15, the stakes were even higher, with their risk of mental illness by the age of 26 being 4.5 times greater than normal.
It is thought that, used during teenage years, the drug can cause permanent damage to the developing brain.
Professor Robin Murray, of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, warned yesterday that the risks were likely to be heightened by the increasing use of powerful skunk cannabis.
'My own experience suggest to me that the risk with skunk is higher. Therefore their estimate that 14 per cent of cases of schizophrenia in the UK are due to cannabis is now probably an understatement.'
Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, said: 'This analysis should act as a serious warning of the dangers of regular or heavy cannabis use, doubling the risk of developing schizophrenia - a condition in which a person may hear voices and experience strange thoughts and paranoid delusions.
'The debate about classification should not founder on statistics but take into account the potential damage to hundreds of people who without cannabis would not develop mental illness.
'While the majority can take the drug with no mind-altering effects, it is estimated that 10 per cent are at risk.
'You only need to see one person whose mind has been altered and life irreparably damaged, or talk to their family, to realise that the headlines are not scaremongering but reflect a daily, and preventable, tragedy.'
However, others questioned the link, pointing out there has been little change in rates of schizophrenia in recent years despite the rise in cannabis use and the increasing strength of the drug. _____________________________________________________________________
Three heavy drug users and their horrific killings:
Prolific cannabis user and killer: William Jaggs William Jaggs, a 23-year-old Oxford University student and prolific cannabis user, stabbed fashion designer Lucy Braham 66 times at her home near Harrow, the public school in North-West London.
The paranoid schizophrenic was found covered in blood beside Lucy's body, having plunged the knife into his own chest last September.
The former Harrow pupil, whose father is a teacher at the school, started using drugs when he was 14, moving on from cannabis to cocaine.
He was sent to Broadmoor secure hospital this month for an unlimited period after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Drug-crazed killer: Richard Cazaly Drug-crazed drifter Richard Cazaly is believed to have stabbed pregnant Abigail Witchalls in Surrey, in April 2005.
Cazaly, 23, who killed himself five days after the stabbing, had a history of heavy drug use dating back at least four years.
His girlfriend, Vanessa MacKenzie, told police both she and Cazaly were regular cannabis users, smoking 'a couple of joints a day'.
Surrey police said Cazaly became psychotic and violent as a result of long-term abuse of drugs and the alcohol he had consumed on the day of the random stabbing.
Miraculously, Mrs Witchalls and her unborn baby survived the attack. Her young son - who she was pushing in a pram when she was set upon by Cazaly - was unhurt.
Mind warped by smoking skunk: Thomas Palmer Son of a nurse at Broadmoor Thomas Palmer butchered two of his friends during a woodland walk after his mind was warped by smoking skunk - a particularly potent form of cannabis.
Then aged 18, he virtually beheaded 16-year-old Steven Bayliss and repeatedly stabbed Nuttawut Nadauld, 14, near their homes in Wokingham, Berkshire in September 2005.
Palmer had started using the drug at 14. He told doctors he had not been smoking on the day of the killings but admitted to using skunk regularly in the weeks before the brutal attack.
In March this year, he was given a minimum 20 years in prison for the double murder.
-------------------- rahz comfort pleasure power love truth awareness peace "The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Edited by Rahz (07/27/07 10:55 PM)
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Rahz]
#7232451 - 07/27/07 11:51 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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If they say one more thing about weed being the underlying cause of mental illness Im going to catch a case of what seems like tourettes. I will be saying nothing but shut the fuck up over and over again. Than they will say "marijuana causes tourettes, see look at this man". When your high your internal voice can have a mind of its own somewhat but once your sober if your still hearing it you were a latent schizo.
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Rahz]
#7232768 - 07/28/07 02:19 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Have these people ever even smoked pot? Fearmongering
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Rahz]
#7232776 - 07/28/07 02:23 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Flop Johnson]
#7232786 - 07/28/07 02:30 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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It is thought that, used during teenage years, the drug can cause permanent damage to the developing brain.
lols. and who could overlook their
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Drug-crazed killer: Richard Cazaly & Mind warped by smoking skunk: Thomas Palmer
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Rahz]
#7232847 - 07/28/07 03:56 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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There are great risks in smoking cannabis, a new report has revealed A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing study warns.
The Government-commissioned report...
That's as far as I read before dismissing this for what it is: Complete FUD.
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: TurricaN]
#7233040 - 07/28/07 08:19 AM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm no lawyer, but isn't there a way to sue someone or an organisation for false information/slandering? These kind of people get really annoying, and I need a new pair of shoes.
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Rahz]
#7233859 - 07/28/07 02:04 PM (16 years, 8 months ago) |
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There are great risks in smoking cannabis, a new report has revealed A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing study warns
damn guys.. i must have like a 400,000,000,000 chance of getting schizophrenia
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: crazycripple]
#7234806 - 07/28/07 07:46 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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-------------------- "One might ask why tobacco is legal and marijuana not. A possible answer is suggested by the nature of the crop. Marijuana can be grown almost anywhere, with little difficulty. It might not be easily marketable by major corporations. Tobacco is quite another story." - Noam Chomsky
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Mandark]
#7234813 - 07/28/07 07:48 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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did you know 98% of cancer patients have eaten oranges before?
THE CONCLUSION: oranges must cause cancer!
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: retrospect]
#7239263 - 07/30/07 08:25 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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retrospect said: did you know 98% of cancer patients have eaten oranges before?
THE CONCLUSION: oranges must cause cancer!
Well, only 98% of the time
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7241851 - 07/30/07 11:50 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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so just because three people killed someone and they happened to have smoked marijuana before means that it's the cause of these deaths? such bullshit. im not an expert on the subject but i know that ive never felt the urge for killing someone while im high. if anything im more mellow and would befriend an enemy before killing him. the media needs to get their facts straight and report on both sides of the story.
i recently found this link on children and ADD. this woman knows what shes talking about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj72e5q61Fs
-------------------- We had two bags of grass, pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shakerhalf-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers. Also a quart of tequila,a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, two dozen amyls. -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Debunked Marijuana Myths
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7244567 - 07/31/07 06:07 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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It'd be fascinating to replace all of the drug related words in articles with religious ones, just for a day across the whole spectrum of media.
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Mind warped by religion: Thomas Palmer Son of God at Broadmoor Thomas Palmer butchered two of his Jewish friends during a woodland walk after he had been molested by his priest at Sunday mass.
Then aged 18, he virtually beheaded 16-year-old Steven Bayliss, a follower of Islam, and repeatedly stabbed Nuttawut Nadauld, a sun-worshiper, near their homes in Wokingham, Berkshire in September 2005.
Palmer had found God at 14. He told doctors he had not worshiped on the day of the killings but admitted to regularly attending church in the weeks before the brutal attack.
All of the drug related deaths in the world could never add up to those of the countless masses who made the mistake of worshiping the wrong almighty silent invisible big guy in the sky.
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: elbisivni]
#7244635 - 07/31/07 06:33 PM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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It'd be fascinating to replace all of the drug related words in articles with religious ones, just for a day across the whole spectrum of media.
haha, thats hilarious.
-------------------- We had two bags of grass, pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shakerhalf-full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers. Also a quart of tequila,a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, two dozen amyls. -Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Debunked Marijuana Myths
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: dlepi]
#7246367 - 08/01/07 03:45 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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The grim statistics - the latest to link teenage cannabis use with mental illness in later life - come only days after Gordon Brown ordered a review of the decision to downgrade cannabis to class C, the least serious category.
Coincidence?
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Sheepish]
#7246402 - 08/01/07 04:42 AM (16 years, 7 months ago) |
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did anyone else notice how the psycopathic cannabis fueled murderer went to the second best university in britain? and went to a very good school prior to that?
the guy started snorting at 14 and he goes to oxford. if anything this is evidence to end prohibition.
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Rahz]
#7978083 - 02/04/08 03:25 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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IT'S ABOUT TIME SOME JOURNALISM WITH A SENSE OF INTEGRITY TAKES ON THIS VICIOUS JUGGERNAUT THAT IS THE SCOURGE OF POT UPON OUR SOCIETY!!!!
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Herbus]
#7980970 - 02/04/08 11:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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The Government-commissioned report
Thats all I had to read, then I stopped.
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Re: Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40% [Re: Chemy]
#7981678 - 02/05/08 08:05 AM (16 years, 1 month ago) |
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can we just have a site wide ban on publishing articles from the daily fail? This is a low class rag read by middle aged women in England who are more frightened than group of bunnies who've just seen one of their kin taken by a stoat. Their stories revolve around how illegal immigrants are destroying our country, that is if cannabis/super duper nun rapey smoking chavs (or "yobs" as the factually defunct publication likes to call teenaged town folk) aren't already at it, and the bloody muslims are raping gods kittens because of bollocks.
And worst of all, their comic selection is not funny.
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