Community | July 02, 2009 | 8 comments

After Further Review, Smoking Pot Doesn't Make You Crazy -- Blimey!

source: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2009/07/chronic_city_this_just_in_--_s.php

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The time-honored notion of reefer madness, given new life recently in the British tabloid press, has taken another hit from reality. Widespread marijuana use by the public has not been followed by a proportional rise in diagnoses of schizophrenia or psychosis, according to the findings of a forthcoming study to be published in the scientific journal Schizophrenia Research.

It stands to reason, after all: If marijuana really led to psychosis, wouldn't the streets be choked with burned-out, gibbering potheads?

Film director John Holowach, responsible for the documentary High: The True Story of American Marijuana, wasn't surprised. "I've said it for years now," Holowach told SF Weekly. "If pot and mental illness were linked, the two should rise and fall with one another, but they don't."
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8 comments // After Further Review, Smoking Pot Doesn't Make You Crazy -- Blimey!

  • theultimateend
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    • I miss the early 1900's when Texas reporters were filing news reports that Marijuana smokers were murdering their families.

      Now sure...there wasn't a single case of this actually happening and sure there wasn't a single case of a pot smoker even hurting a family member.

      But come on...Jesus and Tobacco are here to tell you that Pot is evil. Seriously...don't even look at it...it'll kill you...and your kids.

    • 2 years ago
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      Sess  

    • Ooooohh maaaan!! i'm so sick of u sqaures sayin' dumb shit like "The streets is a bad place to look for pot heads, Try seedy trailer parks and parent's basements, Oh, and gamestop..." this is why people still have this crazy idea that pot heads are lazy bums....this aint true...lots of potheads run this country!! Please, o please give it a rest. lay off the potheads, o.k.? Because i think it's far more sad to know that millions of poeple only interact with the rest of the world throught the net...how about that ? lots of you out there have no life....thats far more dangerous that a little weed.

    • 2 years ago
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