Newly published study concludes cannabis precipitates psychosis

Cannabis Use Precedes the Onset of Psychotic Symptoms in Young People, Study Finds

Procedure summary:
-Random sample of 1,923 adolescents and young adults aged 14 to 24 years.
-Anyone who reported cannabis use or pre-existing psychotic symptoms at the start of the study was excluded in order to examine the relation between new (incident) cannabis use and psychotic symptoms
-Assessed cannabis use and psychotic symptoms over a period of 10 years at three points

Reported findings:
-Cannabis use doubled the risk of later incident psychotic symptoms, even after accounting for factors such as age, sex, socioeconomic status, use of other drugs, and other psychiatric diagnoses
-In those with cannabis use at the start of the study, continued use of cannabis over the study period increased the risk of persistent psychotic symptoms
-No evidence for self medication effects as psychotic symptoms did not predict later cannabis use.

Rebecca Kuepper, Jim van Os, Roselind Lieb, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Michael Höfler, Cécile Henquet. Continued cannabis use and risk of incidence and persistence of psychotic symptoms: 10 year follow-up cohort study. British Medical Journal, 2011

http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d719.extract
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110301184056.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12616543

 

boo.. bad news. i wonder how accurate this study really was

 

these studies make me laugh till i pee! just who in the hell thinks they have the right to tell others what reality really is? the cultures of western civilization are predominately and inherently neurotic already (if you want to use labels)... some may argue that we need cannabis to see alternative possible realities...

 

I think they are reporting the fact not telling others what reality really is.
If the fact is reality is upto you to decide.

 

i'm referring to the alternative realities that come to mind when psychotic here... not the reality of the study.... look up the def of psychotic odor...

 

What about the first part?

I won't even go there.

 

the peeing bit?

 

Imho...
This is the first:

This is the second:

 

sorry odon i don't get what you are trying to say to me...

 

derp... young people are not suppose to use drugs til they mature....

generally people disrespect drugs til they mature and some never do..


I see more behavioral problems in young people that do not eat properly, sleep correctly .... and lack over all self discipline..:computer:


All drugs in existence are not going anywhere. I would think this so called intelligent civilization, would come to understand that by now...

Its like these stupid motherfuckers just invented the wheel and people are getting run over everywhere. Get a fucking grip on yourself society,,, You're laughable,. Age oldass argument.. THE CHILDREN THE CHILDREN WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN. Give it up already, geezeeeee.

Grow a plant and live already, are you not sick of dying yet???.......

now run to the store and get some that dxm, its all good. youll feel better........ :banghead:

 

I'm saying: the study is a fact based on a study. They are not trying to tell us what reality is. If the fact is a reality...it is upto you.

 

correction: i don't think that you understood what i was trying to say... i was saying/asking, who decides that psychosis is necessarily a bad thing? isn't psychosis diagnosed if the "psychotic one" sees and experiences a different reality? who's to say that the "psychotic's" reality isn't real? what i'm saying is, i laugh till i pee bcos it looks like the general consensus of reality is challenged and that is why psychotics are labelled such... fear based delusions of grandeur imho...

 

Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή "psyche", for mind/soul, and -ωσις "-osis", for abnormal condition) means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality".

I think most of us know when a person has lost touch with reality.

 

and who defines all this? the ones who go with the consensus? LOL

 

I think arithmetic is a good place to start in finding what would be 'reality'.

 

All of us. Ok, most of us. We all know when a person is acting out of the ordinary. Well most of us do. Perhaps you are suffering from a Psychosis

 

isn't it up to each of us to define our own?

 

Yes. But the majority of us get to define what is and is not..

 

no, a minority get to spout what they believe reality to be and sheep follow... maybe you are a sheep...

 

It's a majority, trust me. I'm not a sheep. Ask everybody here what they think...you will see most of us agree.