This is a chicken or egg paradox.  Which came first?  Did drug enforcement drive all the prohibs crazy?  Or is drug enforcement just a kind of magnet that attracts all the prohibitionist crazies out there?

I think it's their way of covering up their unwillingness or inability to do anything about their huge problem with an antisocial and violent youth alcohol culture. They ain't covering up nothing, de Emperor got no clothes. What a pile the law is.
It wouldn't surprise me if mental illness is caused by the stress of being treated as a criminal and stigmatized as a dope addict, and coping with black market prices, because you prefer an illegal drug to booze and pills. Getting raped in an all-American prison could do it too.
-newageblues

I think that, sometimes, culture and society (relationships) don't allow ourselves to live beyond our original "madness", the autistic state we're all born in... our (less) "crazyness" depends of an emotional, social (etc) development... not of psychoactive substances that dynamically intervene in an particular person, set and setting... we use them (drugs) to treat psychotic crisis, "personality" or to fight sickness, diseases or infections of all kinds in first world countries... some illegal drugs were once legal... some are just now allowed... it's also a complex subject because it involves politics, economics, social questions, but the only question is:why do pharmaceutical companiess... coff... sorry... society choose the drugs that I can take?

and i think that to discuss every 8 or 10 phenomenas that im seeing first sight above, would take hours of talking and sharing different ideas and perspectives... it would be nice ...

im smoking for peace.. as always...

Sol

What do you think of the study that suggests marijuana causes psychosis?

Hi Scott,

First of all, the scientists of the earlier study did not "announce that marijuana causes psychosis."

Here's one of the authors of that study, as quoted in an AP story:

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.

Secondly, in your attempt to be "non-sciencey," you are getting the science wrong. The more recent study didn't say anything about "rates of mental illness." It only looked at "diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychosis," which make up only a small portion of all mental illnesses.

One form of mental illnesses that I'm pretty sure does increase with incidence of cannabis use is defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Stastical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as "Cannabis Dependence."

Glad to here pot doesn't cause psychotic disorders. All this time I thought I was crazy?

vs. cannabis-newageblues

Paranoia the law. Perhaps after Rachel gave her comparison of alcohol vs cannabis she can explain in detail, based on her conclusions, why cannabis consumers deserve to be thrown in cages like animals while Saint Wino and Captain Sixpack get a hearty slap on the shoulder.

even more than usual. They just can't or won't control themselves, they keep killing. Happy Hypocrites Day, alcohol supremacists.
-newageblues

When was the last time you saw a prescription drug out there that did not have as much or worse side effects than marijuana? I have seen people taking prescription drugs go into depression or get addicted to them..

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