Comments on: Doctors: Marijuana Triggers Psychosis

Study Used Brain Scans For First Time To Show Link Between Pot And Paranoia

[zendigity]

Oddly, I find that the most paranoid people out there are the stock brokers and investors.

If the president of Iran farts without excusing himself the price of oil increases by 25%...

Clearly we need to do something about this menace...what we need is a war on money.

[mandylou4u]

It's so hard to control what everyone does. I know there's certain people who shouldn't drink because they have "phycosis" but booze is legal. Also, how many people smoke cigarettes? Those are also legal. And I know alot of people who smoke, don't have insurance, and when they get sick the tax payers pick up the tab. I think pot is the least of our worries here. More people drink and drive than the ones who smoke and drive. Have any of you ever heard of a pot overdose? My own father passed away of alcohol abuse just this year. Tell me if we need a "study" to find out why he died? I wish he had been smoking pot this whole time, instead of drinking his life away legally.

[pancb1111]

That prohibition fuels crime is the only reasonable argument against the illegalization of pot. All the rest of you are just pissed off that you have to sneak around to take your favorite drug. Grow up. Move to Canada or the Netherlands.

And please don't tell me that pot has no ill effects. 90% of my friends that use pot are essentially loafers...no ambition whatsoever. Getting high is their life. Their conversations consist only of the varieties of weed they have smoked, how much they've smoked so far, and where they plan to smoke tomorrow. College..."I'll go someday."

[dogsoul]

"World views tend to cause people to reject scientific conclusions, because their lifestyles are heavily invested in these views. Some might say religiously invested to maintaining the status quo."

Maybe... but I find a greater contributor towards the rejection of many scientific findings is the erosion of science itself - or at least scientists. Science used to be considered a highly credible, uncorruptable, unbiased, rigidly policed pursuit of the truth - which is precisely WHY having "scientific backing" is so important to various interests. Nowadays, however, it's common knowledge that you can produce a study to say pretty much whatever you want... in fact, many feel that if it furthers some genuinely good cause, it's ok to present "the right conclusions" even if they're based on manipulated, misleading or otherwise inaccurate data. And you really don't have to look very hard to find scientists willing to bend the rules of scientific methodology in order to secure funding, find a voice or achieve some greater cause. Besides, who controls how this information gets disseminated to the public anyway? The media - and THEY'RE no longer expected by ANYone to be objective - on most big issues, what we see read & hear is funnelled thru the filter of those agendas.

[ivandrago]

It's all a form of escapism. Alcohol, pot, heroin, etc. Whenever scientist come up with conclusions that don't fit your world view people tend to get angry. It happens in almost every facet of life.

For example:
*Global warming
*Evolution
*Drug use (which funds a lot of bad guys)

World views tend to cause people to reject scientific conclusions, because their lifestyles are heavily invested in these views. Some might say religiously invested to maintaining the status quo.

If scientist conclusively found that masturbation caused blindness, I'm sure that I'd get my seeing eye dog, and go to the protest rally. Completely blind to the reality of the situation. Jergens rules!!!!!

[dogsoul]

Look, no matter how ya look at it - when you get high, you may very well experience paranoia from time to time... frankly, I can't imagine ANY avid pot smokers denying they've not at the very least commonly observed that effect among their smoking buddies - it's just part of the deal... who needs some expensive study for that? Now, is it a "psychosis"? Maybe technically, but then again - many studies out of this same camp refer to pounding a few beers or drinking to get drunk "binge drinking" - it seems such exaggerated verbage helps to fund studies...

My own experience is that pot isn't anywhere near as damaging as alchohol on virtually every level. Yes, for many - it does tend to make you paranoid, isolationist, and generally unmotivated - which is really why I stopped - too paranoid while I was high, and it actually started to creep in on my psyche even when I wasn't high... I think overuse was starting to train my brain in such a way that the feeling wasn't totally going away when I wasn't high.

[gunownerdan]

If the "WAR ON TERROR" goes as good as the "WAR ON DRUGS" then we are in BIG TROUBLE.
Marijuana has been illegal for over 70 years and today it is the #1 cash crop in America. Drug gangs and drug dealers are making BILLIONS of dollars which they use to fund all the crime and violence they want. Prohibition kills.
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http://www.mpp.org

[deadjester1]

a pot smoker, including medical patients, is busted every 10 minutes somewhere in this f***ing fascist country. the jails are filled with citizens arrested for minor possession. the prohibition is the only thing making them criminals. no wonder they get paranoid.

[jetlizhan]

FoNic8GW -

party on Wayne

[fonic8gw]

it triggers good concerts sounding even better.
m/

[jetlizhan]

are they kidding? research? i learned this the fun way in 1970, 1971, 1972. . . . .

[foranc]

the good doctors should have listened to what the hippies were saying in the 60's, then all that money wouldn't have been wasted on this research all these years ...

[huskerarmy]

dogsoul,

I agree with you on this one. One can't tie this research and its findings to the Bush administration. While it is true that neocons deliberately spread misinformation, Marijuana has been a prohibition for many years... under Dems and GOPers. Surely the GOPers will fight hard and long to keep the prohibition in place, but political Dems have not stuck their necks out one bit to have it lifted.

[huskerarmy]

"I have literally know HUNDREDS of pot smokers over the years and not one of them has ever shown signs of paranoia."

And those hundreds of users know hundreds of users and so forth... And somehow never has this so-called issue of "psychosis" creeped into the lexicon of the world wide culture of pot smokers. Meanwhile, those with little or no experience, congratulates themselves for this so-called breakthrough that validates it's predisposed views. This will have the same effect as "Refer Madness." Those who actually use the substance will recognize just how proposterous, and dismiss it accordingly.

[dogsoul]

First of all... you liberals have an uncanny ability to make anything & EVERYthing stick to Bush - pot's been illegal thru many many presidencies on both side of the fence folks... whatever legitimate gripes you may have with Bush, tacking this kinda stuff on him only shows it's about partisan blood lust over anything substantive.

"I have literally know HUNDREDS of pot smokers over the years and not one of them has ever shown signs of paranoia"

Now THAT is total b.s. - I'VE know hundreds of pot smokers over the years TOO, including myself, and every single ONE of them has gotten paranoid at some point while high - like the other poster said, all you have to do is ask people who smoke pot - what does it do?

- Makes you laugh at and/or interested in stupid stuff
- Heightens creativity
- Can make you paranoid & a hermit
- Gives you munchies

[rushman71]

"Leads to temporary psychotic symptoms"--hummm, let me see, makes you forget what you were talking about a few minutes ago, causes a need to settle that sudden desire for food, makes you laugh harder at stupid subjects, and last but not least, the overdose effect--falling asleep on the couch. Those truly do sound psychotic, don't they!!!!!

[jjreding-2009]

I have literally know HUNDREDS of pot smokers over the years and not one of them has ever shown signs of paranoia (except that which you get about getting caught with something less harmful than alcohol). My friend with epilepsy swears by it because it helps keep his incidents down, and how many people have we heard about that get relief from glaucoma and chemotherapy side-effects. If this country would just legalise it like it is in Amsterdam (a country by the way with one of the lowest crime rates in the world) they could tax the hell out of it and the deficit would be erased rapidly - despite Bush's attempts at keeping it high with his illegal war.

[condumism]

Need facts about pot? You won't find any by searching Google or any other search engine in the USA, only smear controlled by the Neocon Fascists that permeate the Bush administration of smear tactics. Europe publishes all the facts about pot, both good and bad. Their take on the bad consists of warning potential users that pot may increase their appetite, thus causing unwanted weight gain.

[wisemom]

I have a 28 year old schizophrenic daughter. She has been hospitalized 4 times in the past six years after smoking pot. It may not affect all schizophrenics this way but for my daughter, it was true. She does fine on medication - go off for a weekend and smoke pot - bam! She has severe psychotic episodes and I end up having to take her to the hospital. It has caused her severe damage in her treatment.

[lochlan-2009]

CNN just did an attack article on marijuana that looked as if it was written by the DEA. Looks like they're gearing up distract us with marijuana and legalize it or not stories for a few months. Ahhh.... maybe I'm just being paranoid.