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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[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.
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