Schizophrenic about Marijuana
Canada went Reefer Madness this past week:
A pair of articles in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry has resurrected the "reefer madness" argument about marijuana and its links to mental illness.
Cannabis use can trigger schizophrenia in people already vulnerable to the mental illness -- and this fact should shape marijuana policy, argue two psychiatric epidemiologists in this month's journal.
The British press has been agog with this issue for some time now, blathering on about the mental health dangers of pot.
Of course, you can't expect the press to be responsible with this kind of stuff. They don't, for the most part, know a thing about the issue they're reporting nor do they consider that worth their bother. The press will breathlessly report "New study shows eating wheat causes instant death to humans!" while blithely munching on a sandwich, blissfully oblivious to the obvious question of why they don't know anyone who died from eating wheat.
Surprisingly, there has been very little hype about this here in the states so far. But I wouldn't be surprised if we were subjected to this hysteria soon.
More here
Via 'Drug War Rant' http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/
9/7/06
"Green Light"
Schizophrenic about Marijuana
Canada went Reefer Madness this past week:
A pair of articles in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry has resurrected the "reefer madness" argument about marijuana and its links to mental illness.
Cannabis use can trigger schizophrenia in people already vulnerable to the mental illness -- and this fact should shape marijuana policy, argue two psychiatric epidemiologists in this month's journal.
The British press has been agog with this issue for some time now, blathering on about the mental health dangers of pot.
Of course, you can't expect the press to be responsible with this kind of stuff. They don't, for the most part, know a thing about the issue they're reporting nor do they consider that worth their bother. The press will breathlessly report "New study shows eating wheat causes instant death to humans!" while blithely munching on a sandwich, blissfully oblivious to the obvious question of why they don't know anyone who died from eating wheat.
Surprisingly, there has been very little hype about this here in the states so far. But I wouldn't be surprised if we were subjected to this hysteria soon.
More here
Via 'Drug War Rant' http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/
