On being sane in insane places.

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It's awfully embarrassing to see so much confusion surrounding the relationship between cannabis use and psychotic illness, in any of it's many forms, from simple mania to full-blown schizophrenia.

Hopefully this web tour will help. At the end of it you might know:

a) We don't know what mental illness is or what causes it.
b) Statistically speaking, we know that cannabis use does not cause it.
c) Statistically speaking, we know that being a criminal can cause it.
d) We must separate the effects of a drug from the effects of financial and criminal pressures associated with sourcing an illegal substance.

Who's opinion matters? http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/7/1/22

Insane? Says who? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment

Cause or Correlation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlatio ... _causation

On the other hand: http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/44/6/22.full

(a third of schizophrenics are left handed, left handed people are three times more likely to use cannabis than right handed. Chicken? Egg?)

Any Science around? http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid ... izophrenia

Show me the bodies? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19560900

Feeling Crazy? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-arme ... 59543.html

What if they're right? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 101538.htm

How Schizophrenia is guessed to work: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanisms ... izophrenia

Lunch Break: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7 ... renia.html

Famine Relief: http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid ... emp+famine

(World leaders don't like Hemp because it is the only thing that stands between dependence on the state and freedom for all. Historically, mental illness has always been used as an excuse to remove political or business opponents. Remember when Homosexuality was in the DSM?).

♥ C4A ♥

Ive noticed good and bad effects from smoking weed.

Good-
Improved concentration
More motavation
More energy

Bad-
Worstened memory
Trouble thinking

It also depends on the weed. Good weed wakes me up and improves my concentration and motavation while bad weed makes me tired and dumb. Anything in the middle does both.

The memory problem is attenuated by higher CBD content (which also reduces psychotic episodes in those who are already ill)

'Trouble thinking' is what I would call 'Reduces rigid or black and white thinking'.

As an asperger, my thinking style leads to a communication style which is simply too complex for NTs to follow. With cannabis, my communication seems to dumb down to an acceptable level!

On being sane in insane places? I remember that better as D. L. Rosenhan's pseudo-patient experiment. You can find it right here.

That's the one

What do you think about the stigmatisation of schizophrenics by the media, in their attempts to demonise cannabis use?

Worst thing pot does: You pig out on a pizza while watching comedy central and then bake a marrie calenders apple pie.


Been sober for far too long this week, it needs to be legalized already. Plain and simple: It's illegal because anyone can grow it for free.