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smoking pot apparently causes similar brain changes as schizophrenia

and hastens the onset of the disease in those who are otherwise

susceptible. I have often dismissed such research in the past as

drug war propaganda, but this is pretty solid stuff done in the

fairly liberal socialist democracy of Denmark. It has been my

observation over the years that the vast majority of pot smokers who

came into my clinic or were my students exhibited a distinct failure

to grasp objective reality that always struck me as somewhat akin to

schizophrenia. There are certainly exceptions who make up maybe

about 1-3% of chronic users. But the tendency amongst pot smokers to

embrace mystical and pseudoscientific worldviews speaks for itself,

IMO. And I know for a fact that an extremely high percentage of the

mystically oriented crowd in the TCM community of southern CA are

users. If you can manage it, I would suggest to anyone out there who

lights up to stop for six months cold turkey with no lapses and see

if your perception changes. Potheads like to think they have opened

the doors of perception through their indulgence and the those who

don't indulge just have blinders on. While I grant this may be true

for occasional use of mind altering substance like pot and mushrooms

in an ideal set and setting (as advocated by Timothy Leary back in

the day), I now believe believe chronic daily use disturbs the mind

of almost all users. If you resist this idea, then reconcile the

fact that your brain chemistry probably looks more like someone with

mental illness than it does like an enlightened sage. Just cause a

little of something may be good doesn't mean a lot is better.

 

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Todd i think your are stretching the study findings, schizophrenia is a genetic

brain disorder with clear differences in normal drug reactions and that is not

unique to pot. I agree that very many chronic drug users tend to embrace an

alternative frame of mind regardless of what seems to be clear in terms of

" logic's " but that has nothing in common with schizophrenia, it has much more to

do with group behavior. I can tell you that stoners from other cultures do not

nessuseraly embrace the same views and would not endorse nonlogical thought.

 

 

 

 

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Saturday, December 03, 2005 1:51 PM

marijuana - schizophrenia link

 

 

smoking pot apparently causes similar brain changes as schizophrenia

and hastens the onset of the disease in those who are otherwise

susceptible. I have often dismissed such research in the past as

drug war propaganda, but this is pretty solid stuff done in the

fairly liberal socialist democracy of Denmark. It has been my

observation over the years that the vast majority of pot smokers who

came into my clinic or were my students exhibited a distinct failure

to grasp objective reality that always struck me as somewhat akin to

schizophrenia. There are certainly exceptions who make up maybe

about 1-3% of chronic users. But the tendency amongst pot smokers to

embrace mystical and pseudoscientific worldviews speaks for itself,

IMO. And I know for a fact that an extremely high percentage of the

mystically oriented crowd in the TCM community of southern CA are

users. If you can manage it, I would suggest to anyone out there who

lights up to stop for six months cold turkey with no lapses and see

if your perception changes. Potheads like to think they have opened

the doors of perception through their indulgence and the those who

don't indulge just have blinders on. While I grant this may be true

for occasional use of mind altering substance like pot and mushrooms

in an ideal set and setting (as advocated by Timothy Leary back in

the day), I now believe believe chronic daily use disturbs the mind

of almost all users. If you resist this idea, then reconcile the

fact that your brain chemistry probably looks more like someone with

mental illness than it does like an enlightened sage. Just cause a

little of something may be good doesn't mean a lot is better.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4486548.stm

 

 

 

Web/Online Coordinator

Adult Degree and Graduate Programs

Prescott College

http://www.prescott.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

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for a comprehensive review on the effects of cannabis see

http://www.stopteenuse.com/pdf/2003_effects_study_full.pdf

 

 

 

 

Oakland, CA 94609

 

 

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cha

Saturday, December 03, 2005 1:51 PM

marijuana - schizophrenia link

 

 

smoking pot apparently causes similar brain changes as schizophrenia

and hastens the onset of the disease in those who are otherwise

susceptible. I have often dismissed such research in the past as

drug war propaganda, but this is pretty solid stuff done in the

fairly liberal socialist democracy of Denmark. It has been my

observation over the years that the vast majority of pot smokers who

came into my clinic or were my students exhibited a distinct failure

to grasp objective reality that always struck me as somewhat akin to

schizophrenia. There are certainly exceptions who make up maybe

about 1-3% of chronic users. But the tendency amongst pot smokers to

embrace mystical and pseudoscientific worldviews speaks for itself,

IMO. And I know for a fact that an extremely high percentage of the

mystically oriented crowd in the TCM community of southern CA are

users. If you can manage it, I would suggest to anyone out there who

lights up to stop for six months cold turkey with no lapses and see

if your perception changes. Potheads like to think they have opened

the doors of perception through their indulgence and the those who

don't indulge just have blinders on. While I grant this may be true

for occasional use of mind altering substance like pot and mushrooms

in an ideal set and setting (as advocated by Timothy Leary back in

the day), I now believe believe chronic daily use disturbs the mind

of almost all users. If you resist this idea, then reconcile the

fact that your brain chemistry probably looks more like someone with

mental illness than it does like an enlightened sage. Just cause a

little of something may be good doesn't mean a lot is better.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4486548.stm

 

 

 

Web/Online Coordinator

Adult Degree and Graduate Programs

Prescott College

http://www.prescott.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

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