The Marijuana-Schizophrenia Link

[Sir X]

The Marijuana-Schizophrenia Link
By PHILIP M. BOFFEY AUGUST 4, 2014 5:33 PMAugust 4, 2014 5:33 pm 22 Comments
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People who oppose legalization of marijuana routinely raise the possibility that marijuana may cause or exacerbate episodes of psychosis, including schizophrenia. This is hardly settled science, but it’s not necessarily bogus, either.

The Federal government’s most recent evaluation of the health hazards of marijuana was written by experts at the National Institute on Drug Abuse and published in the New England Journal of Medicine in June. In describing the effects of long-term or heavy use, it found an increased risk of chronic psychosis disorders, including schizophrenia, in persons with a predisposition to such disorders. It also warned that marijuana could exacerbate the course of illness in patients who have schizophrenia.

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/...ype=blogs&_r=0


Now what peeves me , is there is no mention of its therapuetic effect to inhibit said symptoms, still glad for this piece, but !

[Sir X]

Any drug can exacerbate a symptom, or illness even though it has proven therapuetic effects ,fact is medication isnt individualized e.g heparin is an anticoagualnt prescribed for patients at high risk for embolisim, though rare it can cause a condition known as HIT that increases the chance of a thombos,clot or embolism.

The studies that ganja causes schizo or mental conditions or at best inconclusive, what about studies of its therapueric effects.Reserach has shown it has compounds that can be used to treat, mental conditions and schizophrenia is one of them.

That said most antipsychotic medications have dangerous side effects.

http://www.smellthetruth.org/health/...ew-study-finds


“The results were amazing,” said Daniel Piomelli, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at the University of California-Irvine and a co-author of the study. “Not only was [CBD] as effective as standard antipsychotics, but it was also essentially free of the typical side effects seen with antipsychotic drugs.”

http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/06...nia/39803.html