New study, marijuana will make you psychotic.

thats a stupid article i didnt read it. but just the quotes some of you have posted. i knew itd be bullshit.
and i agree with who ever said or quoted " it emphasizes behavior"
marijuana is not harmless though. youd be a fool for saying anything that alters your mind state is harmless. it may not have a serious threat. but its a drug damnit.
and it can fuck people up who have some mental illnesses already.
and its a drug so its different for every person. on how their body and brain works.

 

if being psychotic is laughing and mellowing out then im a raging lunatic

not everyone that smokes has shit in their brain that weed will bring out...infact most are not

its just a bunch of corporate bastards that couldn't find anything else to write about..so of course they run straight to the drugs

 

An altered mind state is harmless, unless you have underlying mental illnesses like panic or rage. I, for one, don't even consider marijuana to be a drug; it comes from a plant for crying out loud! It's a herb! It's true that the effects vary from person to person, but so do the possiblities of already possessing a mental illness.

 

lol youve said that before, and ill have to say it again. opium and cocaine are as much 'herbs' as marijuana is, but you cant possible put them in teh same category.

 

Not true; coccaine and opium require extraction methods to collect the substance. Maryjuana, you just pull off the stalks of the hemp plant.

 

opium and cocaine can be used stiafght form the plant, but theyre not as strong as proper stuff. jsut like you can get really strong hash oil, or jsut smoke the plant.

 

alright ocean byrd caught me. with a good one at that.
but i have both panic and rage being part of my problem.
but i know that marijuana which i beleive is one of the safest theraputic drug known to man ( i feel like such a duesche when i say that)

 

that explains so much about me

 

I posted this about a week back.

I think there's two things I should emphasize: By 'psychotic', they mean some psychological abnormality (or uniquity of mind in any way); and the article is more ridiculous in the way that it claims that higher THC levels even play a role in anything.

Getting stoned is getting stoned. It still takes the same amount of THC. And we're all only going to be smoking to the point where we're comfortable, right? So, if someone wants to get a nice buzz, they'll just have to smoke less weed now than they would've had to in the 60's. That's all it is. I can see naysayers argument of, "Well, one bowl will do more damage," but they're forgetting one of the biggest other things about this article: It's bullshit.

How in the word would THC damage your cannabinoid receptors? They're cannabinoid receptors, they're meant for recieving cannabinoids. That's like saying defficating is going to damage your anus.

Now, the other thing about it is that there's not really any great proof that it's stronger. They don't say how they got the results and precentages of weed from the 70's. All they do is compare it with today's weed. Now, do they pay any attention to demographic location? Nope. They could buy some mexican brick weed at the border in 1970, and then buy some nice AK47 from a cafe in Amsterdam and claim that the potency is rising. And that's basically what they're doing. Not only that, but there's speculation that they're testing this stuff from weed that's still laying around from the 60's. Weed that's been degraded.

Now, NIDA isn't that dumb, people. They don't want to do any research, they just want to make marijuana sound more menacing.

 

My mum seems to think a guy she knew became pschitzofrenic (sp?) from smokin weed but i'll bet whatever you want there was more to his illness than the use of marijuana.

(A Bit off topic sorry) In The uk (Not sure about anywhere else) its ilegal to commit suicide but its not ilegal to try lol more proof of the idiocy of the government.

 

what bullshit. I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE ACT LIKE THEY KNWO WHAT THEYRE TALKING ABOUT HOW MARIJUANA "IS BAD FOR YOU AND YOU WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE DOING IT" has anyone here seen reefer madness? is there any site that you can watch it on?

 

What they are saying is that if a child at a young age were to start smoking they might become phychotic. This is because their bodies and brains are not fully developed yet. When they say marijuana will make you psychotic they make it sound like anyone who smokes will become like this. This only happens with young kids.

PREDICT-Bullshit-She don't know shit.

 

not it doesnt, it doesnt happen at all! yea the bud is alot stronger, but theres still nothign BAD in it, unless its laced with something. People are just making that shit up.

I started smoking when I was 13, and im not psychotic. It only lasts a few hours, and is stored in FAT cells, so in this case, really does nothing to you except get you high, then stay in your fat for a few weeks.

 

I had a link to a streaming video of it; and I agree with your dislike for people who think you're setting yourself up for failure. If my parents catch me smoking after I'm off UAs, I'm going to present an essay I'm currently finishing to them, telling them that they are full of Reefer Madness. They think I'm "Going down the wrong road." Fuck that, my grades picked up after I started going to school high because I found that I could concentrate better; my only problem was staying awake (of which Concerta helped with, it didn't do shit on it's own).