We’re going back…back to the FUTURE!
Published by Kyso Kisaen July 27th, 2007 in "Science", Drugs, Filtered Propaganda, HUH!?, Politics
Lookin’ forward to seeing it in it’s proper musical form
Chasity rings and modesty fetishes aren’t the only way to bring back the ’50s - don’t forget about the scaremongering over the tawdry evils associated with the devil’s weed.
Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous.
The new review suggests that even infrequent use could raise the small but real risk of this serious mental illness by 40 percent.
If you smoke pot, even once, years later you might go keerr-aazyyy! So kids, when you’re out at the ’sock hop’ with your ’steady’ dancing to the tribal rhythms of your ‘rock and roll’ music, you must remember to Just Say No to Mary Jane and hereditary disposition to mental illness or any number of other uncontrollable variables that may affect the validity of the conclusions of this certainly-not-political review of previous scientific literature.*
“The available evidence now suggests that cannabis is not as harmless as many people think,” said Dr. Stanley Zammit, one of the study’s authors and a lecturer in the department of psychological medicine at Cardiff University.
The researchers said they couldn’t prove that marijuana use itself increases the risk of psychosis, a category of several disorders with schizophrenia being the most commonly known.
There could be something else about marijuana users, “like their tendency to use other drugs or certain personality traits, that could be causing the psychoses,” Zammit said.
…They found that people who used marijuana had roughly a 40 percent higher chance of developing a psychotic disorder later in life. The overall risk remains very low.
How shocking! How terrible! How wrong we were lo this past twenty years! Why it’s a good thing these heroically impartial doctors did this literature review now, just at the perfect moment to do something about it!
In the U.K., the government will soon reconsider how marijuana should be classified in its hierarchy of drugs. In 2004, it was downgraded and penalties for possession were reduced. Many expect marijuana will be bumped up to a class “B” category, with offenses likely to lead to arrests or longer jail sentences.
Two of the authors of the study were invited experts on the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs Cannabis Review in 2005. Several authors reported being paid to attend drug company-sponsored meetings related to marijuana, and one received consulting fees from companies that make antipsychotic medications.
*What? Like the shorter DARE slogans are any more effective.
I’d be curious to know how many of the “participants” were intitially undiagnosed, self medicated with the weed and were diagnosed once they stopped thier useage.
Does it react like stopping any other drugs used for “mental health” purposes?
(going way out of whack when stopping dead, until the body equalizes)
Post pot ergo propter pot.
I actually purchased this dvd. Only because the original reefer madness was in the extras. I was forced to watch this in my freshman health class. My teacher apologized over and over again beforehand telling us it was the most stupid thing shes ever layed eyes on.
Both of them are so corny. But funny. Like how you get so high, and get the munchies so bad, that you become cannibalistic.
Its a hoot.