Pot-Smoking Teens Hear Secret Television Messages
-TWR- TWR // August 9, 2011 // Sport/Health // 2 Comments
“Teenagers and young adults who use marijuana may be messing with their heads in ways they don’t intend,” reports Harvard Health Publications. Also:
Evidence is mounting that regular marijuana use increases the chance that a teenager will develop psychosis, a pattern of unusual thoughts or perceptions, such as believing the television is transmitting secret messages. It also increases the risk of developing schizophrenia, a disabling brain disorder that not only causes psychosis, but also problems concentrating and loss of emotional expression.
In one recent study that followed nearly 2,000 teenagers as they became young adults, young people who smoked marijuana at least five times were twice as likely to have developed psychosis over the next 10 years as those who didn’t smoke pot.
The so-called health benefits of “medical marijuana” could offset any positives, costing taxpayers billions. But the social cost is immeasurable.
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2 Comments on "Pot-Smoking Teens Hear Secret Television Messages"
It’s about time the truth is getting out about pot. The individual also becomes very unmotivated,ie lazy, emotions become dull. They also start to loose their memory. It’s hard to get people off of it and has an elivated rate of postrate cancer and long cancer.
“Postrate” cancer AND “long” cancer? Those sound pretty serious. And you say pot use “elivates” one’s risk of these fearsome diseases? And I would hate to “loose” my memory. If that happened, I might even forget how to spell simple English words!
Ok, that was admittedly a cheap shot. Seriously the proof that pot use is a significant causal factor in schizophrenia is pretty tenuous. There is some CORRELATION between marijuana use and schizophrenia but correlation does not equal causation. People with certain mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, tend to use ALL intoxicants in greater percentages than the general public. Also there’s a fair bit of anecdotal data that cannabis (particularly cannabis with a high CBD to THC ratio) provides symptom relief. So the odds are good that many schizophrenics (and pre-schizophrenics) who use cannabis are essentially self-medicating. One of the most convincing pieces of evidence that cannabis is not a significant cause of schizophrenia is the fact that there does not appear to be any correlation over time between the incidence of schizophrenia and the rate of cannabis use.
http://blog.norml.org/2009/07/01/study-debunks-claims-that-pot-smoking-causes-mental-illness/
And finally, even if cannabis did increase one’s risk for developing schizophrenia, that’s not a particularly compelling reason to lock people who choose to take that risk in a government cage.