Marijuana use may speed psychosis


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Using marijuana, or cannabis, may cause psychosis to develop sooner in patients already predisposed to developing it, and in other patients the drug may even cause psychosis, according to a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

"This finding is an important breakthrough in our understanding of the relationship between cannabis use and psychosis," according to the study. "It raises the question of whether those substance users would still have gone on to develop psychosis a few years later."

Patients with psychosis tend to lose touch with reality and are prone to hallucinations and delusions about what is happening around them. Psychosis is frequently reported among patients with diagnosed mental illness such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

"Reducing the use of cannabis could be one of the few ways of altering the outcome of the illness because earlier onset of schizophrenia is associated with a worse prognosis," according to the study. "An extra two or three years of psychosis-free functioning could allow many patients to achieve the important developmental milestones of late adolescence and early adulthood that could lower the long-term disability arising from psychotic disorders."

But experts say the complexity of interaction between genes and environment, and the possibility that cannabis is, in fact, a way to self-medicate when psychotic symptoms arise are not accounted for in this study.

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Super old news... I've known that for literally years...

Glassed Silver:ios

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I thought that the link between cannabis and psychosis was common knowledge, but I am sure that the trolls on Neowin will come out to make it absolutely clear that cannabis is completely harmless.

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I thought that the link between cannabis and psychosis was common knowledge, but I am sure that the trolls on Neowin will come out to make it absolutely clear that cannabis is completely harmless.

Yeah, it's old news. However, it does show that cannabis is not completely harmless, no matter what it's defenders may say.

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Thats the dumbest **** I've ever heard

Thats the dumbest **** I've ever heard

let me guess ,cigarettes and alcohol are harmless right? oh lets include pain pills.None of that stuff is harmfull right? I cant believe peoples ignorance.

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I know a couple people who have used Marijuana several times a week for years and they do all act pretty paranoid. But they could have been like that before they started smoking it so who knows.

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Thats the dumbest **** I've ever heard

let me guess ,cigarettes and alcohol are harmless right? oh lets include pain pills.None of that stuff is harmfull right? I cant believe peoples ignorance.

Did you just troll yourself....bravo.

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Like everything, it can be harmful if abused...

My personal opinion is that it does more good than harm.

In my life i know of 2 cases were Cannabis has helped improve the quality of life for 2 people.

1. a cancer sufferer who is now dead, but got through his last few months a lot easier buy regularly smoking cannabis out of a vaporiser.

2. an MS sufferer who relies on it to get through her days.

And in a 3rd case but not personal to me, if anyone watched that BBC3 programme on cannabis will know what i mean.. that guy with an illness (i cant remember what it was) who relied on cannabis to lead a normal life, also smoking it through a vaporiser.

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So, just smoke some more and forget about being psychotic!! :blink:

Personally,

I think it's a bunch of crap!!

I know MANY, MANY people in their late 50's and early 60's who smoke the heck out of the stuff, and they're just as normal as anyone else.

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I hear it also gives you aids, and is a gateway drug leading to people injecting heroin in to their eyes.

Hahahahh you made my day, man! :laugh:

And what can I say more than: "Source: a random CNN Blog"

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Super old news... I've known that for literally years...

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This. And if you can't glean for yourself that a psychoactive drug may lead to psychosis if you're predisposed, then its probably least of your worries.

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I am going on 30 years of use. That explains everything :rolleyes:

LOL 30 years? Impressive, but I'm 46 now and have been high since I was 13...

wait! did you hear that? no srs bsns, I heard something!!! :whistle:

PS - Reading stupid articles on Neowin will speed stupidity too...

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I am going on 30 years of use. That explains everything :rolleyes:

Did anyone in your family have a psychotic mental illness? If you're not genetically predisposed to psychosis, the chances of you ever getting it are very very close to zero. The current models of many mental illnesses, especially psychotic ones such as schizophrenia are stress-diathesis models, meaning that the chances of you coming down with an illness is dependent on how genetically predisposed you are (diathesis) in an interaction with triggers that occur during your life (stressors). Psychoactive drug use can be one of those triggers if you're predisposed.

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This sh*t's been known for years, but there will always be those that say it's a bunch of lies just to justify it's use and deny their addiction. I tried it only once and it gave me an unbearable 4 day migraine. Nasty stuff!!!

Now, for medical treatment use (i.e. as a chronic pain killer) that's another story, as long as it remains under medical control. And that is also a proven fact.

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This sh*t's been known for years, but there will always be those that say it's a bunch of lies just to justify it's use and deny their addiction. I tried it only once and it gave me an unbearable 4 day migraine. Nasty stuff!!!

Now, for medical treatment use (i.e. as a chronic pain killer) that's another story, as long as it remains under medical control. And that is also a proven fact.

Sure the pot you tried wasnt golden brown and in a needle?

But on point "Marijuana use may speed psychosis" notice the word "May"... we know Alcohol causes liver damage with excessive use.. we know that Tobacco is a major player in lung cancer... Yet every single cannabis "News breakthrough" has to use the words "Could, May, Possible", and weve only been using cannabis for hmm, thousands of years... yet we know more on Tobacco and Alchohol?.... Doesnt ring true

The day i listen to these sort of "findings" is the day the government listens to the scientists about other drugs, aka alcohol and tobbaco. Its the same reason David Nutt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt#Dismissal) was sacked in the UK, the government doesnt want to look stupid, but by funding anti pot "research" or lies as i would call it and shutting down repsected proffessors research when it goes agains what they think just proves otherwise.

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But experts say the complexity of interaction between genes and environment, and the possibility that cannabis is, in fact, a way to self-medicate when psychotic symptoms arise are not accounted for in this study.

No substance is without side effects or risk but it is not certain if marijuana causes psychosis or if it is used to self medicate for those already experiencing symptoms. I personally think it is a little bit of both

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Using marijuana, or cannabis, may cause psychosis to develop sooner in patients already predisposed to developing it,

Really? You don't say? I could of sworn I heard this years ago...

according to a new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

Oh I see. This is a new study. Because clearly the last study was flawed. But wait, this study has come to the same conclusions. What a waste of everybody's time and money.

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