Posted by linkadge on December 28, 2006, at 19:36:19
In reply to Re: Marijuana, the Anti-Drug, posted by laima on December 28, 2006, at 19:09:26
>schizophrenia.com lists an awful lot of articles >about studies which beg to differ about >marijuana never causing any brain abnormalities.
I'll take a look. It depends on what you call brain abnormalities. It also depends on who you talk to. Its clear that the brain functions differently while on it, but I've never seen anything conclusive saying that marajuanna use is associated with any particular kind of dammage. There is a *lot* of polydrug use too. So a meth/marajuanna user might have his brain dammage unjustly attributed to marajuanna. Some might also argue that people who use marajuanna might have other lifestyle factors that might negatively influence brain health. (Ie my pot smoking friend only eats Kraft Dinner, and drinks Jolt). Animal studies havn't conclusevly shown anything, except when very high doses are used.
Certain constiuents are actully supposedly neuroprotective. The university I am going to is studying one constiuent for neuroprotection in alzheimers. (Now I know that the substance needs to be studied as a whole)
>But I do know, coincidence
>or not, that a few people who I've known for a >long time have become quite "off" with their >reasoning after being chronic smokers for a very >long time. A little paranoid about government >plots, sure they are about to become wildly >famous and rich, that occupants of UFOs, >logically, are amongst us...stuff like that.
Are these people smoking when they display this behavior, or do they display it after a fair time of abstainance?>Whether or not that counts as schizophrenia, I >can't say, but it's pretty sad. There's heavy >evidence for an association, though yes, to >say "marijuana will cause schizophrenia" is a >little oversimplistic. And definately, plenty of >people smoke tons, essentially unscathed.
There are a number of other drugs that can cause psychosis. I had a mild break on high doses of TCA's. My roomate also heard voices when the school doctors prescribed ritalin. Psychosis is a documented side effect of ritalin, but its not taken off the marked for this side effect.
Linkadge
poster:linkadge
thread:716869
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20061224/msgs/717099.html