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	<title>Comments on: New study casts doubt on &#8220;cannabis-induced psychosis&#8221; claims, pot doesn&#8217;t cause schizophrenia</title>
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		<title>By: Drug vs herb - Page 2 - Grasscity.com Forums</title>
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		<dc:creator>Drug vs herb - Page 2 - Grasscity.com Forums</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Originally Posted by AlexanderT   Weed is a drug. A drug that can cause cancer,  bring out Schitzophrenia in people who may have avoided it had they not smoked, maybe induce depression, cause anxiety in some.  Weed even ruined peoples lives. Some people haven&#039;t been raised with a good foundation of self control and become ADDICTED, and can&#039;t quit. Some people become more and more anti social and develope social anxiety disorder or things like that.  I really cant stand when people act like its flawless.    For me, Cannabis is a sacrament. For others its a big problem.    What I bolded is absolutely false. Using cannabis, if you are predisposed to getting schizophrenia (meaning that you would get it regardless) may accelerate the onset and exacerbate the symptoms. Those predisposed to it would still get it whether they ever smoked or not.  New study casts doubt on [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Originally Posted by AlexanderT   Weed is a drug. A drug that can cause cancer,  bring out Schitzophrenia in people who may have avoided it had they not smoked, maybe induce depression, cause anxiety in some.  Weed even ruined peoples lives. Some people haven&#039;t been raised with a good foundation of self control and become ADDICTED, and can&#039;t quit. Some people become more and more anti social and develope social anxiety disorder or things like that.  I really cant stand when people act like its flawless.    For me, Cannabis is a sacrament. For others its a big problem.    What I bolded is absolutely false. Using cannabis, if you are predisposed to getting schizophrenia (meaning that you would get it regardless) may accelerate the onset and exacerbate the symptoms. Those predisposed to it would still get it whether they ever smoked or not.  New study casts doubt on [...]</p>
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		<title>By: coltov mocktail</title>
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		<dc:creator>coltov mocktail</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am I am petrified of marijuana&#039;s inevitable legality.  

Tax base control rests on instilling the notion that an oppressive hierarchy is a social necessity due to humanity&#039;s unrelenting greed, jealousy and possessiveness.  Many of the world&#039;s natural resources have been overrun and poisoned by the rapaciousness of this paradigm.  Once invested, it is satisfied with nothing less than total domination and complete homogeneity.  However, because there are still diverse belief systems that stand against it in isolated geographic pockets, only the propaganda of peer pressure and media imagery can prevent widespread social mutiny.  This mental campaign that imprisons modern society in misery is threatened by marijuana.  The use of marijuana firstly is a stand for personal freedom and secondly effects to question basic participation in the cruelty that masquerades as mainstream success.

So why be frightened if it&#039;s legalized?  Because if those controlling  demonic evil no longer fear marijuana, it is because they have managed to physically eliminate alternatives and find mental control quaint, but unessential.  Real bars will be erected before mental freedom will be encouraged.

Legalization may come, but not before the freedom that marijuana represents is no longer a threat.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am I am petrified of marijuana&#8217;s inevitable legality.  </p>
<p>Tax base control rests on instilling the notion that an oppressive hierarchy is a social necessity due to humanity&#8217;s unrelenting greed, jealousy and possessiveness.  Many of the world&#8217;s natural resources have been overrun and poisoned by the rapaciousness of this paradigm.  Once invested, it is satisfied with nothing less than total domination and complete homogeneity.  However, because there are still diverse belief systems that stand against it in isolated geographic pockets, only the propaganda of peer pressure and media imagery can prevent widespread social mutiny.  This mental campaign that imprisons modern society in misery is threatened by marijuana.  The use of marijuana firstly is a stand for personal freedom and secondly effects to question basic participation in the cruelty that masquerades as mainstream success.</p>
<p>So why be frightened if it&#8217;s legalized?  Because if those controlling  demonic evil no longer fear marijuana, it is because they have managed to physically eliminate alternatives and find mental control quaint, but unessential.  Real bars will be erected before mental freedom will be encouraged.</p>
<p>Legalization may come, but not before the freedom that marijuana represents is no longer a threat.</p>
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		<title>By: Poppastrano</title>
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		<dc:creator>Poppastrano</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey men,no offense or anyting,but I dont think your at the position whether you can determine if Marijuana should be legal or not.I mean you have already have a mentall illness.Dont think im a supporter of Canabis,but Marijuana has difrent afects in diffrent people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey men,no offense or anyting,but I dont think your at the position whether you can determine if Marijuana should be legal or not.I mean you have already have a mentall illness.Dont think im a supporter of Canabis,but Marijuana has difrent afects in diffrent people.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Kerr</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Kerr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Funny some schizophrenics are helped with the use of Cannabis, some it has no effect and some it has a negitave effect.

Cannabis for me has had nothing but positive results in my life. Now that I vaporize weed, I don&#039;t have the negitive aspect of the smoke entering my lungs and I don&#039;t spit up black crap from my lungs any more and it is twice efficient to vaporize than to smoke it. So now every time I buy a bag of weed it is like buying 2 bags of weed.  My vaporizer payed fot its self with the first OZ of weed purchased.

Cannabis induced schizophrenia. Another prohibitionist argument bits the dust.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Funny some schizophrenics are helped with the use of Cannabis, some it has no effect and some it has a negitave effect.</p>
<p>Cannabis for me has had nothing but positive results in my life. Now that I vaporize weed, I don&#8217;t have the negitive aspect of the smoke entering my lungs and I don&#8217;t spit up black crap from my lungs any more and it is twice efficient to vaporize than to smoke it. So now every time I buy a bag of weed it is like buying 2 bags of weed.  My vaporizer payed fot its self with the first OZ of weed purchased.</p>
<p>Cannabis induced schizophrenia. Another prohibitionist argument bits the dust.</p>
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		<title>By: Against</title>
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		<dc:creator>Against</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I understand your point of view and it is valid. It gives me a different way to look at it. Thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I understand your point of view and it is valid. It gives me a different way to look at it. Thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: M in Oregon</title>
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		<dc:creator>M in Oregon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I should also say that I am sorry that cannabis had a deliterious effect for your psychological condition, and that in a regulated market this would have been less likely to have happened to you.  I certainly don&#039;t view you or anyone else with mental illness as any less deserving of happiness, success, and health than those who DO benefit from cannabis as a medicine, or a recreational drug.

  The unregulated market is what funds the gangs and the cartels, and keeps this multi-billion dollar subset of our economy from providing benefit to all through taxation similar to what alcohol and tobacco, whether or not they personally choose to use cannabis.

  This doesn&#039;t even count the costs of conducting a totally ineffective multi-billion dollar a year campaign against the personal, recreational/medicinal use of non-pharmaceutical, non-alcoholic, tobacco free drugs by responsible adults, or the costs of housing all of those prosecuted and convicted in our prisons, or supporting their dependents through increased ue of social services.

I hope that you continue to have success in living with your condition, and that you are someday able to see that legalization will be best for all of us, whether we use cannabis or not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I should also say that I am sorry that cannabis had a deliterious effect for your psychological condition, and that in a regulated market this would have been less likely to have happened to you.  I certainly don&#8217;t view you or anyone else with mental illness as any less deserving of happiness, success, and health than those who DO benefit from cannabis as a medicine, or a recreational drug.</p>
<p>  The unregulated market is what funds the gangs and the cartels, and keeps this multi-billion dollar subset of our economy from providing benefit to all through taxation similar to what alcohol and tobacco, whether or not they personally choose to use cannabis.</p>
<p>  This doesn&#8217;t even count the costs of conducting a totally ineffective multi-billion dollar a year campaign against the personal, recreational/medicinal use of non-pharmaceutical, non-alcoholic, tobacco free drugs by responsible adults, or the costs of housing all of those prosecuted and convicted in our prisons, or supporting their dependents through increased ue of social services.</p>
<p>I hope that you continue to have success in living with your condition, and that you are someday able to see that legalization will be best for all of us, whether we use cannabis or not.</p>
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		<title>By: Against</title>
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		<dc:creator>Against</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fair enough.  I wouldn&#039;t use it again no matter what. I was just pointing out that for some people the first time, or first few times they use marijuana that it can cause a psychotic/schitzophrenic episode and this may not occur if it wasn&#039;t so readily available. If it does become legal hopefully those people will not continue to use it.  Me being amongst that group of people, I  can&#039;t imagine they would want to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fair enough.  I wouldn&#8217;t use it again no matter what. I was just pointing out that for some people the first time, or first few times they use marijuana that it can cause a psychotic/schitzophrenic episode and this may not occur if it wasn&#8217;t so readily available. If it does become legal hopefully those people will not continue to use it.  Me being amongst that group of people, I  can&#8217;t imagine they would want to.</p>
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		<title>By: M in Oregon</title>
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		<dc:creator>M in Oregon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So what you are saying here is that YOU, should not use cannabis as an intoxicant/euphorant.  

That is all that your case, or any other of &quot;pot induced schizophrenia&quot; says... period.

Just because it can be legalized and regulated does not mean that you, or anyone else, would be forced to use it.

 In fact, under a properly regulated distribution system, your medicinal/recreational cannabis seller would likely have to give you, as a purchaser/user, information regarding all possible primary and side effects, including contra-indications for conditions such as yours.

It&#039;s a fact, my kids, and yours, all of us, would be FAR safer under legal regulation than we are now under the unregulated free for all of the black market.

Alcohol causes plenty of psychological problems for plenty more people than cannabis, not to mention being liver toxic and generally detrimental to health in large doses, yet it is legal and regulated.

So why can&#039;t you trust adults, given valid and factual information, to make their own decisions regarding what substances they imbibe?

Could it be that under legalization you might not be able to trust YOURSELF to &quot;Stay off the GRASS&quot;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So what you are saying here is that YOU, should not use cannabis as an intoxicant/euphorant.  </p>
<p>That is all that your case, or any other of &#8220;pot induced schizophrenia&#8221; says&#8230; period.</p>
<p>Just because it can be legalized and regulated does not mean that you, or anyone else, would be forced to use it.</p>
<p> In fact, under a properly regulated distribution system, your medicinal/recreational cannabis seller would likely have to give you, as a purchaser/user, information regarding all possible primary and side effects, including contra-indications for conditions such as yours.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a fact, my kids, and yours, all of us, would be FAR safer under legal regulation than we are now under the unregulated free for all of the black market.</p>
<p>Alcohol causes plenty of psychological problems for plenty more people than cannabis, not to mention being liver toxic and generally detrimental to health in large doses, yet it is legal and regulated.</p>
<p>So why can&#8217;t you trust adults, given valid and factual information, to make their own decisions regarding what substances they imbibe?</p>
<p>Could it be that under legalization you might not be able to trust YOURSELF to &#8220;Stay off the GRASS&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>By: Against</title>
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		<dc:creator>Against</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So to try to explain to those who do not know about cannabis induced psychosis. I will explain from personal experience to anyone who will listen.  I do have a mental illness, bipolar disorder not schizophrenia, that was diagnosed BEFORE I ever experimented with marijuana.  When I was under the influence of marijuana I had a VERY sevier psychotic episode that was extremely dangerous.  It was the most horrible thing I have ever experienced.  I have never felt that way in my life and I just wanted it to be over.  Like I said it is a very dangerous state for someone to be in, it is probably a schizophrenic or psychotic state of mind.  This is the main reason it should NOT be legalized for recreational use.  The studies are done by SCIENTISTS and they are real.  Just because people want something does not mean it is safe or good for it to be easy access for everyone.  The legalization of marijuana could lead to unsatisfactory outcomes. I do lead a normal and productive life with my mental illness that was diagnosed 12 years ago.  Not everyone with mental illness just shrivels into a pile worthless matter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So to try to explain to those who do not know about cannabis induced psychosis. I will explain from personal experience to anyone who will listen.  I do have a mental illness, bipolar disorder not schizophrenia, that was diagnosed BEFORE I ever experimented with marijuana.  When I was under the influence of marijuana I had a VERY sevier psychotic episode that was extremely dangerous.  It was the most horrible thing I have ever experienced.  I have never felt that way in my life and I just wanted it to be over.  Like I said it is a very dangerous state for someone to be in, it is probably a schizophrenic or psychotic state of mind.  This is the main reason it should NOT be legalized for recreational use.  The studies are done by SCIENTISTS and they are real.  Just because people want something does not mean it is safe or good for it to be easy access for everyone.  The legalization of marijuana could lead to unsatisfactory outcomes. I do lead a normal and productive life with my mental illness that was diagnosed 12 years ago.  Not everyone with mental illness just shrivels into a pile worthless matter.</p>
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		<title>By: find me some info/a study that suggests marijuana does NOT lead to mental illness? - Grasscity.com Forums</title>
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		<dc:creator>find me some info/a study that suggests marijuana does NOT lead to mental illness? - Grasscity.com Forums</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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