Scans "reveal brain damage from cannabis is like schizophrenia"

[rm-rf]

i was actually going to take this article seriously untill i got this far

Last year the drug was downgraded from class B to class C, which means the police no longer routinely arrest people caught with small amounts.

and then realized it was from the UK - which, of course, destroys any inkling of credibility it once almost had. Anything from the isles is just a joke, I mean their sensationalist yellow journalism would probably try to convince the public that the Wicked Witch of the East survived the encounter with Dorothy's house, and that she was running rampant through the streets of London.

Im sorry, i dont think id believe a damn thing that came out of England, even if they tried to tell me the sky was blue.

 

[BilZ0r]

and then realized it was from the UK - which, of course, destroys any inkling of credibility it once almost had. Anything from the isles is just a joke, I mean their sensationalist yellow journalism would probably try to convince the public that the Wicked Witch of the East survived the encounter with Dorothy's house, and that she was running rampant through the streets of London.

Im sorry, i dont think id believe a damn thing that came out of England, even if they tried to tell me the sky was blue.

What the fuck kind of racist crap is that? America has it's fair share of sensationalist news too. The original study was an American one anyway, presented in Chicago, to an American Society. And seriously, everything from the UK is a joke? You better ignore anything published on DNA... Watson and Crick did their work at Cambridge.. the list of scientific discoveries from the UK is so long it's not every worth mentioning.

I mean what the fuck...

 

[nick44]

In patients, abnormalities of FA in the SMA region were significantly associated (r=0.55, p=0.00 with worse performance of working memory."

r = 0.55 Only 20% of the variance? When they already assumed some things?

Why not run a Prinicipal Components Analysis first and then start looking at standardized correlations rather than covariances?

 

[BilZ0r]

^ Their radiologists not statasticians.

 

[Slay]

I think most people would stop if they started hearing voices^^

This article is lacking in a good amount of test subjects and explains the theory so lackluster/vaguely that it is not even believable.

Well, when I'm alone, I sometimes hear someone whisperin my name, fucking scary shit. I believe it is cannabinol related8).

 

[Bare_head]

just in time before they discuss whether it should be reclassified to class b 8)

 

[dragon_sail]

oh really

I just nthought it was old age.......... been soing it for 40 years..must talk to the other voices and see if they agree

 

[5-HT2]

What I want to know is whether they controlled for polydrug use (including alcohol) in the 'stoner' group. This tends to be a big problem with many studies where investigators are trying to tease out the long-term effects of a single drug.

Edit: didn't read any of the posts on the second page before initially making this post, but I agree with what Bilz0r said.