Smoking POT will make you go crazy!

[Chuckup]

Looks like pot has been linked to Psychosis.....!

http://www.healthtalk.ca/psychosis_12012004_7023.php

[Kikosexy2]

1. In that...

case I better score some more. For medical use of course.

[da_chimperor]

2. For more proof, just look at some of the posts in the lounge.

Hint: look for excessive usage of 'Kleeb'. :D

[Mojambo]

3. Reefer MADNESS n/t

[pipes]

4. Yes it does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

But I don't care!

[On the Road]

5. How Do They Know Cause and Effect?

One interpretation could be that personalities inclined toward psychosis are more attracted towards pot. They have to be able to determine in advance who is likely to become psychotic.

And apparently they do claim this:

On average, the study found that young people using cannabis have about a 6 percent increased risk of developing psychotic symptoms, compared with non-users. Among those vulnerable to the condition, the risk jumps to 23.8 percent.

The article just doesn't say how.

[Chuckup]

7. They don't know how...

it's in the article....they believe it as sometning to do with dopamine..

[damntexdem]

9. The study could not show C-and-E.

It shows an association between earlier pot use and later psychosis. Confounding factors could have produced a spurious association -- e.g., factors that make earlier pot use more likely also make later psychosis more likely. Such a study is useful for highlighting possible risks, not for establishing them.

[On the Road]

19. I Agree -- Howard will Tank without Robin

The authors of the study certainly know that, but the public presentation of the results tends to imply cause and effect.

[DeaconBlues]

6. And schizophrenia is associated with alcohol and tobacco use

It has to do with poor impulse control and self-medication. Which came first - the psychosis or the marijuana use?

[EC]

8. How do the know

psychosis would not have developed in them even without pot?

[Nevernose]

17. A control group?

[Radical Activist]

10. Life has that effect too

damn

[johnnie]

11. That's not correct. The squirntys in my pod said it is.

It's too much to ask for a question like that when you laid it out the way you did. So get away from my dog and take your aliens with you!

[Guy Fawkes]

12. say it with me: correlation does not equal causation!!!!!!!!!!

!

[salvorhardin]

14. Thank you!

That's the mantra everyone should repeat to themselves 10 times when reading any health related story.

"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"
"Correlation does not equal causation"

[MrSlayer]

13. Yeah, I write this from the padded room.

People will do or say anything to demonize the Kind Herb. We don't want DuPont and the beer companies hurt in any way do we?

[Chuckup]

15. Anyone care for

a nut?

[DrWeird]

16. Not smoking pot is making me crazy.

You don't like me when I'm crazy.

[elperromagico]

18. Shit! The neighbor's dog was right!

He's been telling me that for years.