How Marijuana May Drive the Brain into Psychosis
 

and so it begins...or continues as the tirade against Ron Paul and his stance on issues steadily increases-
"How Marijuana May Drive the Brain into Psychosis"
http://news.yahoo.com/marijuana-may-...144302935.html

apparently this will be followed up by a new article entitled
"How Not Liking War Makes You A Drug Addicted Communist"

keep an eye out for these "news items" coming from all sides of the MSM over the next few months.
if a story seems fishy, it probably is.

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Ron Paul 2012!

"How Marijuana May Drive The Brain into Psychosis"

[insert propaganda here]

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i know a few people whose heavy mj use probably contributed to their eventual mental issues. i'm sure most smokers do if they were being honest. don't be a sheep and true believer and keep an open and critical mind.

rofl

"One chemical, called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), increases the brain processes that can lead to symptoms of psychosis, while another compound, called cannabidiol, may negate such symptoms, according to the study."

marijuana can cause psychosis while preventing it at the same time

if you have an underlying mental illness that you aren't aware of, smoking A LOT of weed could make you more aware of it. i've seen some people bug out but they were always kinda crazy anyways.

fear the reefer ...

Here's the kind of shit I think about when I'm really high...

What the fuck am I? I'm a bag of meat wrapped around some bones and a shitpipe, sitting on a couch, watching some electronic box, on a floating rock that could be swallowed by a black hole at any second. This will all end at any moment, and I'm wasting my time watching some bullshit and eating crackers. I should be running naked in the rain forest of Brazil, fucking jungle bitches, cliff diving and killing wild boars for dinner with my bare hands. Where's the fucking remote?

Is that at least mildly psychotic?

I have to agree with this statement because marijuana opens up your eyes and windows to the world and how it really works. This will make you a fucking nuts.

psychotic? I'm sure no matter what they find that will be debatable.. but I know as much as everyone else that it makes you exceedingly lazy and impairs ambition... That alone should be feared more than anything else that 'scientists' claim...

More like "Look if you have issues in your life, then weed is going to make you confront them and deal with it"

This is nothing new. There's been hundreds of articles released over the years asserting that Weed can exacerbate mental and behavioral disorders. If you're insinuating that this is some kind of veiled attempt to poison the well of public opinion because the powers that be are afraid of the Ron Paul message than i'd have to disagree with you. The majority of rational voting Americans recognize Ron Paul for what he is: a quack. And why do people think that if Ron Paul were elected weed would all of the sudden become legalized?

Just imagine what you would be thinking about if you were schizophrenic or bipolar.

Study seems inconclusive. Not sure why it was even published.

I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but I think the government would like to keep illegal anything that will get people thinking too much. Look at booze. Arguably worse for your body than marijuana, takes up more space, can make you throw up, gives you a hangover and allows you to be the asshole that you suppress most of the time.

It's alcohol. You can make firebombs with it. People put it in their body and that's legal, yet smoking a medicinal herb that expands your mind is not legal.

LOL, we aren't talking about panic attack or anxiety because you're too high.

People who are predisposed to schizophrenia and psychotic episodes are WAYYYYY more likely to experience them if they abuse Marijuana. We aren't talking about a panic attack just when high either, a serious sometimes permanent mental condition.

yes i know 2-3 personally. pretty much schizo now and living on disability. also couple close friends who got into weed and conspiracy theories who are extremely paranoid to the point it`s boring and pointless to talk to them. they see everything through a super-paranoid prison planet lens.

i am pro-pot and legalization but not naive that there can`t be downsides to it.

If alcohol was just created today it would be a schedule 1 narcotic. If it hadn't played such a critical role in society, more specifically European society, for thousands of years it would be illegal.

I do know if I smoke to much, I feel like this.
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Unless you consider domestication natural, insanity is normal.

They're just trying to drum up more "reefer madness" style bullshit like they did in the 1930's.
Same old crap, trot out some "expert" to make claims etc.

Let me put it this way- if you have a party of 20 "normal" people drinking heavily and a party of 20 "normal" people smoking a lot of pot, where will you see the psychotic behaviour?

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Water has some adverse health effects too (given the right circumstances) lol

Legalize Freedom

What you're describing are right wing religious fanatics, has nothing to do with weed.

i dont smoke, but every heavy weed smoker I know is fucking batshit crazy. must be coincidence.

Same with shrooms, lsd, mescaline, etc.

I call bullshit.

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Obvious propaganda is obvious...

it does

that's why we need to legalize it and only sell weak strains of it instead of this crazy 20% stuff that's all over the place now

Thats what you should also do when you are starting to freak out on shrooms!

:helpme :warning :helpme

Same here. For the life of me i'll never really understand the infantile relationship people build around pot. The constant need to defend it from any and all criticism.. The need to believe it's pure and innocent and plucked from Jesus's G-Spot for their personal consumption... The constant crying about alcohol as though it absolves pot's sins. Seriously grow the fuck up. It has benefits as well as negatives like pretty much everything else on the planet. If you don't think it has a causal link to psychosis you are naive or willfully ignorant.
Think of it this way, using alcohol again. There are almost monthly reports as to all the bad things booze does to you, gives you a dozen different kinds of cancer.. dementia, liver and kidney failure etc etc. When one of these comes out it isn't propaganda put out by the medical marijuana industry to take market share away from pot or (jesus skullfuck this is retarded) propaganda to push Romney ahead of Paul in the polls (seriously, back off to once a month cali/chuckle, you have proven yourself delusionally paranoid). It's just the constant background scientific inquiry. Your precious herb causes some level of harm. Deal with it. Pretty much everything in life does. Push for legalisation but don't be moronically blind. If you've been able to wake and bake every day for the last 5 years without developing any serious issues (besides the delusional thinking displayed in this thread), congratulations, you're not one of the people at risk of developing schizophrenia or drug psychosis. That doesn't mean there aren't millions of normal people out there at risk of triggering something they have no possible way of knowing about beforehand that should get some level of real information. Usage guidelines - amounts, frequencies, least harmful methods of use and warning signs to look out for before psychosis becomes more serious and semi-permanent.
Legalise it but minimise harm. It's not a hard concept to grasp. Same with pretty much every other drug and at the very least better mind openers like mescaline.

I was not talking about panic attacks, etc. fact is not only marijuana can bring out mental illness in people.

QFT!!! How many "slower than the speed limit cuz paranoid" stoned driving accidents have there been this year where some idiot plows through a crowd of people? In fact... have there been any deaths associated with Marijuana? I don't smoke pot or drink alcohol but I'm leaning toward slower stoned driving being much, much, much safer.

I have 14 mental illnesses and a big bag of dope

False dichotomy much? You are a fuckhead if you drive drunk OR stoned and should be punished with the full weight of the law.

States That Legalized Medical Marijuana Saw Fewer Traffic Deaths, Study Says


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1176856.html