So, I've been pretty much inundated with nonsensical articles about marijuana causing psychosis. While many people have set the record straight on this issue in the past, it keeps coming back as some new article. Simply put, someone put together a half-assed study and somehow came to the conclusion that marijuana caused psychosis - schizophrenia, etc.
No, marijuana does not cause psychosis. This is more prohibitionist, drug war lies to keep marijuana criminalized. They purposely confuse causation and correlation. In other words, does marijuana use cause psychosis or is it the case that people who are predisposed to psychosis seek drugs most likely as a way to cope with their psychosis?
Instead, the authors of articles, most likely inspired by prohibitionists, purposely leave out many facts. For instance, what other factors in their lives may have affected the subjects mentally?
For example, you may see a 65yo man with mental problems claim he's been using marijuana for 20 years. And, that's pretty much all the study took into consideration - marijuana use. Well, what if that 65yo man was a Vietnam War veteran? Wouldn't the hardships of war contribute to a psychosis? What about potential exposure to chemicals used by the military during the Vietnam War such as Agent Orange? How do you factor the possibility that 65yo man's other habits may have included alcohol and cocaine abuse?
Yet, prohibitionists pick them up and sensationalize them to make our friends and families seem like they are crazy animals instead of decent human beings. The prohibitionists are losing the war on marijuana and they know it. So, they trot out these old, tired arguments that have been debunked time and time again because for many people, this is new information. As I know, this is not new information nor is it a "new" study.
Even before these studies came about, during prohibition's early days, marijuana was painted as causing psychosis. Documentaries developed in the 30s portrayed marijuana users as everything from out of control young girls to crazed murderers. Law enforcement tried to blame many crimes of that time on marijuana use as is the case with Victor Licata. So, there is a long history dating back to the initial days of prohibition in which law enforcement tries to connect psychosis to marijuana.
The more you educate yourself and educate one another against the misinformation campaign by prohibitionists, we find more and more that marijuana is not the dangerous killer drug that it's made out to be.
Enforcement of marijuana prohibition costs American taxpayers approximately $12,000,000,000 (billion) per year (which goes directly into the pockets of prohibitionists). With politicians interested in cutting spending, wouldn't it be nice to cut $12,000,000,000 from the budget by legalizing marijuana? Imagine the tax revenues that can be received if marijuana were legalized in the form of new businesses and jobs that can increase tax revenues across the board.
Law enforcement could also do more to solve real crime instead of wasting their time and tax payer funds on petty marijuana arrests.
Well, let's set the record straight again...
No, marijuana does not cause psychosis. This is more prohibitionist, drug war lies to keep marijuana criminalized. They purposely confuse causation and correlation. In other words, does marijuana use cause psychosis or is it the case that people who are predisposed to psychosis seek drugs most likely as a way to cope with their psychosis?
Instead, the authors of articles, most likely inspired by prohibitionists, purposely leave out many facts. For instance, what other factors in their lives may have affected the subjects mentally?
For example, you may see a 65yo man with mental problems claim he's been using marijuana for 20 years. And, that's pretty much all the study took into consideration - marijuana use. Well, what if that 65yo man was a Vietnam War veteran? Wouldn't the hardships of war contribute to a psychosis? What about potential exposure to chemicals used by the military during the Vietnam War such as Agent Orange? How do you factor the possibility that 65yo man's other habits may have included alcohol and cocaine abuse?
These factors are NOT considered in these studies. That is why, many times, these studies are debunked and ignored (yet again).
Yet, prohibitionists pick them up and sensationalize them to make our friends and families seem like they are crazy animals instead of decent human beings. The prohibitionists are losing the war on marijuana and they know it. So, they trot out these old, tired arguments that have been debunked time and time again because for many people, this is new information. As I know, this is not new information nor is it a "new" study.
Even before these studies came about, during prohibition's early days, marijuana was painted as causing psychosis. Documentaries developed in the 30s portrayed marijuana users as everything from out of control young girls to crazed murderers. Law enforcement tried to blame many crimes of that time on marijuana use as is the case with Victor Licata. So, there is a long history dating back to the initial days of prohibition in which law enforcement tries to connect psychosis to marijuana.
The more you educate yourself and educate one another against the misinformation campaign by prohibitionists, we find more and more that marijuana is not the dangerous killer drug that it's made out to be.
Education is legalization.
Enforcement of marijuana prohibition costs American taxpayers approximately $12,000,000,000 (billion) per year (which goes directly into the pockets of prohibitionists). With politicians interested in cutting spending, wouldn't it be nice to cut $12,000,000,000 from the budget by legalizing marijuana? Imagine the tax revenues that can be received if marijuana were legalized in the form of new businesses and jobs that can increase tax revenues across the board.
Law enforcement could also do more to solve real crime instead of wasting their time and tax payer funds on petty marijuana arrests.
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Don't cause psychosis, but can activate latent schizophrenia, as in my case, on the other hand, in the long run this may open the road to greater and healthier development of the psyche, this is what those folks are afraid of, cripples and cramped defenders of everyday normality. (But say what really causes psychosis - for example catholicism and similar fairytales - and you're quite deeper in problems than you might like.)
Okay, really, wtf does that even mean "activate latent schizophrenia". I dated a guy with schizophrenia, did a couple science reports on it, and it strikes me as silly that people can't connect the fact that MOST PEOPLE smoke their first joint between the ages of 15 and 18, and dang nearly 100% of schizophrenia sufferers experience their first symptoms between 15 and 18. I've NEVER read anything credible in any actual research of schizophrenia that actually has any sort of reference to "cannabis induced schizophrenia" or some sort of state of dormant schizophrenia that is triggered by cannabis. It's silly, it's not true, but it's kinda predictable that humans fall for this fallacy over n over again. "I smoked a joint for the first time. Then I experienced schizophrenia symptoms for the first time. One must have caused the other."
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Yeah I'd have to agree with you. All it ever made me want to do when I smoked it in college is to want to order something from Dominos.
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I used to use marijuana alot, as well as other psychedelics. What most people seem to forget is that marijuana is a psychedelic and in being so it does not to the same thing to every person, it is a case by case basis. Though being only a minor psychedelic/psychoactive most cases are relatively similar. I recently had a anxiety induced psychotic episode on marijuana, I have had several of these on LSD.
The psychosis thing is not fake, it is true. Psychosis is an altered state of consciousness. What does marijuana do? It brings you to altered states of awareness and consciousness.
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Anthony. next time you get all blazed start thinkin. think as much as you can about humans and the world. use marijuanas ability to increase your perception to understand the world for what it really is. once you see how fucked up everything is underneath, you will start to go crazy. happened to me
Luke, I've been where you've been. We have similar perceptions of the world.
However, the difference between us is that it didn't drive me crazy. In fact, what I realized was that I was crazy to NOT realize that this world was fucked up. And, this is was long before I smoked anything.
Instead of feeling despair at the world around me, I decided to approach the issue in a different way. Things need to change and it starts with #1 - me. It continues with you and everyone else who finally comes to realize that other people have lost their minds.
The only way we can truly smile and be happy is if we have the audacity to ignore the pain of others. No, you were not driven crazy or to psychosis. Your eyes and heart were opened and you started giving a damn.
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