Pot may hike risk of psychosis, research finds

[SadieMae]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..................... I wonder??????

I'm in Texas...would a horse trailer do?

 

[JBean]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNV5c6UEFNk

 

[j2mirish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNV5c6UEFNk

toooooooo funny------------
dumb a**

 

[JBean]

toooooooo funny------------
dumb a**

I think we're dead.

 

[narlacat]

Even limited use could up chance of serious mental illness by 40 percent

Updated: 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

LONDON - Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous.
The new review suggests that even infrequent use could raise the small but real risk of this serious mental illness by 40 percent.
Doctors have long suspected a connection and say the latest findings underline the need to highlight marijuana’s long-term risks. The research, paid for by the British Health Department, is being published Friday in the medical journal The Lancet.

“The available evidence now suggests that cannabis is not as harmless as many people think,” said Dr. Stanley Zammit, one of the study’s authors and a lecturer in the department of psychological medicine at Cardiff University.
The researchers said they couldn’t prove that marijuana use itself increases the risk of psychosis, a category of several disorders with schizophrenia being the most commonly known.
There could be something else about marijuana users, “like their tendency to use other drugs or certain personality traits, that could be causing the psychoses,” Zammit said.
Thousands tracked
Marijuana is the most frequently used illegal substance in many countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States. About 20 percent of young adults report using it at least once a week, according to government statistics.
Zammit and colleagues from the University of Bristol, Imperial College and Cambridge University examined 35 studies that tracked tens of thousands of people for periods ranging from one year to 27 years to examine the effect of marijuana on mental health.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19980923/

I actually know two people who were diagnosed with drug induced schizophrenia. Both of those people never did any other drugs besides smoking pot.

I've never heard of anyone who smoked pot to get psychotic- but will agree it can be a trigger for Schizophrenia- those people were always going to get Schizophrenia though- if not the pot it would be something else that triggers it-

Speed Psychosis is alot more common- and having experienced that first hand, I would advise anyone who is considering taking speed- not to- not nice.
( doubt many WS'ers would be considering that but hey ya never know lol)

 

[OneLostGrl]

I've never heard of anyone who smoked pot to get psychotic- but will agree it can be a trigger for Schizophrenia- those people were always going to get Schizophrenia though- if not the pot it would be something else that triggers it-

Speed Psychosis is alot more common- and having experienced that first hand, I would advise anyone who is considering taking speed- not to- not nice.
( doubt many WS'ers would be considering that but hey ya never know lol)

I think if one takes enough of anything it can make 'em Psychotic. I have gotten Psychotic off of Benadryl before- I had taken about 25 of them. (At the time I was a pill junkie and couldn't get my hands on anything better so that's what I took, sad, I know LOL)

 

[narlacat]

I think if one takes enough of anything it can make 'em Psychotic. I have gotten Psychotic off of Benadryl before- I had taken about 25 of them. (At the time I was a pill junkie and couldn't get my hands on anything better so that's what I took, sad, I know LOL)

Yeah things are crook when pills are your main high LOL

 

[Buzz Mills]

Big Ben's bongs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070811/ap_on_fe_st/britain_big_ben_s_bongs

 

[JBean]

Big Ben's bongs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070811/ap_on_fe_st/britain_big_ben_s_bongs

Oh now that was good BUzz.
Did you watch the youtube I posted? I thought you might get a kick out of it.

 

[Buzz Mills]

Oh now that was good BUzz.
Did you watch the youtube I posted? I thought you might get a kick out of it.

I didn't notice it JBeanya. I'll have to look for your post.

 

[JBean]

I didn't notice it JBeanya. I'll have to look for your post.

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1622671&postcount=102

 

[Buzz Mills]

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1622671&postcount=102

I saw that on the news when it happened. That's a really funny incident. Those must have been great brownies.

 

[JBean]

I saw that on the news when it happened. That's a really funny incident. Those must have been great brownies.

Did you really? That is hilarious Buzz. I bet you got a good laugh out of that.

 

[Buzz Mills]

Did you really? That is hilarious Buzz. I bet you got a good laugh out of that.

I wonder how long it took for that policeman to realize he really screwed up.

Years ago, a lady friend of mine, was burning a Duraflame fire log in her fireplace, immediately after she, and a good friend (identity withheld to protect the innocent) got loaded. She became very paranoid about the fumes the log was giving off, so worried about being asphixiated, she called the fire department. When they responded, and entered her home en masse, it only took them one whiff, and then they were chuckling underneath their all-knowing grins.

 

[JBean]

I wonder how long it took for that policeman to realize he really screwed up.

Years ago, a lady friend of mine, was burning a Duraflame fire log in her fireplace, immediately after she, and a good friend (identity withheld to protect the innocent) got loaded. She became very paranoid about the fumes the log was giving off, so worried about being asphixiated, she called the fire department. When they responded, and entered her home en masse, it only took them one whiff, and then they were chuckling underneath their all-knowing grins.

okay now that is just funny.

 

[Buzz Mills]

CA redefines "Massive"

Massive marijuana garden discovered in Humboldt County

In the biggest pot bust in Humboldt County history, authorities seized more than 134,000 marijuana plants worth an estimated $469 million, law enforcement officials said.

The plants, ranging from one to three feet tall, were discovered on federal and private timberland along the county's eastern edge north of Dinsmore, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department.

The plants, which were spotted during surveillance flights, were eradicated over the past week by county, state and federal officers.

No arrests were made during the raid, but investigators believe a Mexican drug cartel was behind the massive growing operation.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/08/10/state/n160119D36.DTL&type=politics

 

[JBean]

What a dubious honor.

 

[close_enough]

August 7, 2007: A rebuttal to last week's media tumult over the supposed connection between
cannabis use and psychosis, from Paul Armentano, Senior Policy Analyst at
NORML, and Mitchell Earleywine, Ph.D, Assoc. Professor at the U. of Albany
(NY) and a NORML Advisory Board Member, Interpreting Hazy Warnings About Pot and Mental Illness

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5481

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-...eywine/interpreting-hazy-warning_b_59543.html

 

[Buzz Mills]

N.M. planning medical marijuana program

SANTA FE, N.M. - Gov. Bill Richardson ordered the state Health Department on Friday to resume planning of a medical marijuana program despite the agency's worries about possible federal prosecution. However, the governor stopped short of committing to implement a state-licensed production and distribution system for the drug if the potential for federal prosecution remains unchanged.

The department announced earlier this week that it would not implement the law's provisions for the agency to oversee the production and distribution of marijuana to eligible patients. That decision came after Attorney General Gary King warned that the department and its employees could face federal prosecution for implementing the law, which took effect in July. The distribution and use of marijuana are illegal under federal law, and King has said federal authorities have prosecuted citizens for growing medical marijuana.

On Friday, Richardson directed the department to plan for full implementation of the program, such as preparing the regulations that will permanently govern how it operates. Under the law, the department is to issue the rules by October, including for licensing marijuana producers and developing a system to distribute the drug to qualified patients.

Richardson spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said a decision would be made later whether to implement the production and distribution system if federal prosecution remained possible. Gallegos said the administration was pursuing possible legal options to allow the

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070818/ap_on_he_me/medical_marijuana

 

[JBean]

Police seized some 5,000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $10 million this morning found nestled in the Verdugo Mountains above Glendale.
A helicopter scouring the area for signs of fires on Tuesday found spotted an "unusual patch of greenery," said Glendale Police Officer John Balian. Narcotics detectives hiked up the mountain and discovered a sophisticated marijuana farm throughout the area. The operators had designed a watering system using the water from a tower that was designed to be used in case of brush fires, Balian said. Police also seized a sleeping bag, rifle scopes, and rifle bullets from nearby, but no suspects were in custody.
http://www.dailynews.com/ci_6638887?source=most_emailed