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It can be dangerous to smoke it, if you have a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia. I know that there are studies indicating that autism and schizophrenia are two sides of the same genetic coin, and I know that some people with AS do go on to develop schizophrenia later in life.
It may not be very likely, but I would be cautious.
This seems to be the undead vampire of anti-cannabis propaganda! Most people are confused about this one.
1) There is a correlation between cannabis usage and psychosis / schizophrenia.
2) Correlation does not imply cause.
3) Well designed studies which compare diagnosis rates across populations where cannabis use is known to have increased dramatically have only ever shown no change or a drop in diagnosis rates.
4) Which would imply that people are self-medicating.
5) THC can be administered in high doses to produce 'psychotic symptoms' which are temporary.
6) CBD can be administered in high doses to neutralise 'THC psychosis'.
7) Psychiatric professionals recommend that the users themselves are best placed to judge whether or not to continue use of cannabis when experiencing symptoms.
There are many well documented cases of psychosis occurring as a result of abrupt cannabis use cessation. Enforced cessation can cause psychosis and medical professionals are well aware of this. FACT: Cannabis does not cause schizophrenia
I will be happy to dig out the links to all the research for this stuff if anyone really needs to see it but it's all on the facebook page anyway.
No, lol. i don't need links.
I don't follow this stuff closely but I did a lot of digging around in the past, and for *me* personally, the studies are frightening.
My dad is schizophrenic, as well as my aunt. I don't have an agenda and really don't care what anyone else does to their own well-being, but for me, I would be cautious. I've smoked a ton of the stuff in the past, and done a lot of psychedelic drugs. I can tell you that some of those drugs have definitely had lasting effects.
What I remember from reading about schizophrenia and cannabis, and seeing a documentary from the UK about Cannabis (In a series from BBC, probably easy to google), you can have schizophrenia in your genes, and lying in the dark inside you waiting to pop out. Sometimes, cannabis can help to make the schizophrenia visible in the being. Maybe they could have gone all their life without ever noticing their disease, but cannabis can cause you to start noticing it.
I hope you understand what I'm trying to say, I'm not the best person around, in english.
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I don't think it's necessarily a good thing for aspies to consume open-ended quantities of marijuana out of boredom and for no particular reason, because it's pretty well established that chronic, daily consumption of large quantities does bad things to motivation, short-term memory, ability to learn, and one's general ability to earn a living and/or succeed in life.
HOWEVER...
In moderation, and particularly as an adjunct to facilitate learning how to pretend to be social, it can be invaluable. When I started college, and for most of my first two years, I was a stubborn, hardcore, die-hard self-righteous aspie nerd who was totally off the "geek" scale. Then, somehow, a miracle occurred, and I managed to become involved with Greek (as in, fraternities) social life, and one guy in particular made teaching me how to be social his personal project. Without assistance from pot, he never would have made it to first base, let alone gotten me to let down my guard and chill enough to listen to him and take him seriously.
I'll be the first to admit there's a slippery gray line between therapeutic and recreational use, and I'm not going to act righteous and pretend that probably 40-60% of my collegiate pot use wasn't 'recreational' in nature or had higher motives at the time. Really, though, pot in the abstract never really did much for me. It served its purpose, and served it well, but the fun factor just isn't high enough to risk losing my drug-tested job over it now. If it were unambiguously legal (or I went to Amsterdam for a few days), I'd probably try it again, but I can't really imagine going out of my way to get it, or spending large amounts of money and/or risking arrest over its acquisition. It was fun, but it wasn't that fun.
Actually, thinking back, I still remember the first time I smoked pot -- I spent almost an hour watching the minute hand on a wall clock move. In complete fascination. 
That said, I think pot should be unambiguously legal, and regulated no more tightly than alcohol.
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