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By Lizzie Parry, Dec 03, 2015 Daily Mail
Dr Deepak D'Souza, a professor of psychiatry at Yale, said: 'At doses roughly equivalent to half or a single joint, delta-9-THC produced psychosis-like effects and increased neural noise in humans.'
First author of the study, Dr Jose Cortes-Briones, a postdoctoral associate in psychiatry at Yale, added: 'The dose-dependent and strong positive relationship between these two findings suggest that the psychosis-like effects of cannabis may be related to neural noise which disrupts the brain's normal information processing.'
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Good thing I read my Szasz in order to understand the nothingness said in the above statements. Words like suggest and maybe are weasel words that are not found in pathology wherein literal diseases are found.
ReplyDeleteLarry, when you start seeing words or sentences like ...Here it is proof positive using cannabis causes ......then you can publish them as useful information the public needs to know. Otherwise you are just publishing psychiatric propaganda and as lead libertarian thinker Dr. Thomas Szasz teaches in his writings, those diagnosis benefit the psychiatric profession a lot more than they benefit anybody on the receiving end of a psychotic diagnosis,
I remember when the latest push for the legalization of pot started, and just like abortion, it began with the most extreme types of uses they could devise.
ReplyDeleteFor abortion, it was the life of the mother, incest, and rape. However, it quickly moved to abortion on demand, the right to kill the unborn child for sheer convenience.
With pot, the doorway was using it for patients with glaucoma, which was a very limited ailment, affecting a very small minority. Then it became "pain management", as if it were the best painkiller around. Now it has moved to recreational use, and the fiction is that, "Hey, it completely harmless! It's just pot, after all...".
My patience with the naivette of the public is wearing pretty thin by now, and no, it's not harmless in the least.
We hear much of the dangers of smoking tobacco, and everything is being done to influence people to quit, which is fine and dandy. However, pretending that there are no health conseqences to smoking cannabis instead (a mind-altering drug that you actually inhale and HOLD in you lungs) is blatantly hypocritical and false.
In additon, the pot of today is nothing like the much milder drug from the 60's and 70's. It is much more potent, containing high levels of substances that affect brain functions, including the creation of a form of Schizoprenia.
The push to increase drug dependence by current "adults", willingly moving to a more drug-induced "dumbing down" state reveals where current society is headed.
I used marks around the word adults, for many such are not choosing to be adults in the least. Drug use is rampant (and getting worse, with legalization efforts), young people in college whine about needing "safe spaces" so that their fragile egos aren't damaged, and many don't consider themselves to be really adult until their 30's or 40's.
Long gone is the willingness and ability in many to understand that adulthood begins at 18, that your over-sensitivity is your own problem to deal with, that college is not a career, and that the refusal to step up and take responsibility and accountability for yourself and the real challenges you face puts off taking adult responsibilities due to holding onto a juvenile mindset of a 13 year old.
The self-drugging of people is a form of escapism, only feeding the already irresponsible attitudes of the users. It promotes the false idea that using mind-altering drugs like pot (and worse) will somehow be a positive way to address life.
No, pot isn't "harmless", and increasing personal dependence on a very addictive substance (and yes, it absolutely is addictive, as is any drug that alters the perception of reality) is a very, very bad way to go.
From my perspective, pot use is one more idiotic choice that people are making, and sorry, my patience with this particulary form of idiocy is simply wearing thin.
Excellent response. I agree with every single word. Too bad it will go unheeded, but it needs to be said often.
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