Golly. I thought since marijuana was no worse than alcohol, and the kids, they smoke the ganga all the time, and socialists like the NDP’s Jack Layton love the stuff, that therefore, ipso facto, the square root of herbage times liberalism divided by gettin’ high means…. nothin’ wrong with it!
But yet in a Dutch study, some scientists have figured that marijuana may increase risk of psychosis. Well sure, that explains Jack Layton’s mindset and that of the NDP and many Liberals too, but I’m sure the liberal-lefties will readily point out that these must be different scientists than the ones they constantly point to who say global warming is caused by humans—mostly Americans—and their evil free market economy ways.
Teenagers and young adults who frequently use cannabis are increasing their risk of suffering from psychotic symptoms such as bizarre behavior and delusions later in life, Dutch scientists said on Wednesday.
Young people with a family history, or pre-existing susceptibility to mental instability, are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of the drug.
“Cannabis does not act in the same fashion on psychosis risk for everybody. There is a group that is particularly susceptible,” Professor Jim van Os, of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, told a news conference.
He and his colleagues studied 2,437 young people aged 14-24 and identified those with a predisposition for psychosis. They also questioned them about their cannabis use and followed them up for four years.
“The results show that in the group without vulnerability to psychosis, there was a small effect of cannabis on the onset of psychotic symptoms four years later,” Van Os said.
“But this risk was four times bigger in individuals who had a personal vulnerability to psychosis.”
Van Os said the study also showed the odds of experiencing symptoms of psychosis were higher for people who smoked cannabis more frequently.
The findings, which are reported online by the British Medical Journal, are consistent with the results of other studies.
Doctors do not understand how cannabis increases the risk of mental illness but they suspect it affects the dopamine system in the brain which is associated with pleasure.
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