The aAlleged link between cannabis and schizophrenia.

[nottyslick]

It's a documentary I did for college. I know a lot of you may disagree with the argument, but I'd appreciate any constructive critism as opposed to purely negative comments, as it is a college project. I myself am an anti-prohibitionist, but as it was for college, I couldn't exactly blurt out about how I want cannabis to be de-criminalised and eventually legalized for the good of humanity, so this is what I got.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxhah1GMb_g&feature=channel_page

 

[wojack420]

I'm almost 20 now and was diagnozed with schizophrenia bout 3 years ago and am on medication and it helps a lot..

MY mother also has shiz

the doctor said id have about a 1/4 chance of getting the mental illness and of course I did.

my parents smoke like 3 joints a day and thats prolly why i got the illness but im dealing with it and I also smoke weed.

 

[FrostyMcFailure]

my parents smoke like 3 joints a day and thats prolly why i got the illness but im dealing with it and I also smoke weed.

sounds wack as hell. They smoked so you have to do it too magically?

 

[Feroc1ty]

I'm almost 20 now and was diagnozed with schizophrenia bout 3 years ago and am on medication and it helps a lot..

MY mother also has shiz

the doctor said id have about a 1/4 chance of getting the mental illness and of course I did.

my parents smoke like 3 joints a day and thats prolly why i got the illness but im dealing with it and I also smoke weed.

Why are you blaming a mental illness on a drug... Millions of people smoke weed, yet don't have schizophrenia, it's simply a random chance in my opinion...

 

[TaoWarrior]

I am of the opinion that schizophrenia is not caused by pot but rather the association between the two is that schizophrenics try to self medicate through pot.

There is def. a link in that a far higher % of the population who smokes gets diagnosed with schizophrenia than those that do not. However the link is always studied as pot causing schizophrenia not as schizophrenia causing pot useage. Anyway thats my personal opinion. There is also data that shows on average pot smokers are smarter than other segments of the population so if pot causes schizophrenia does it also cause intellegence?

Researchers have a tendancy to find what they are looking for, not necesarily the truth.

 

[wojack420]

not blaming the drug it's just what happened
I love 2 smoke weed... just saying all the smoke may have increased my chances of getting it

 

[rsrkt]

Weed puts you more into your mind, if you get me...
Like i find that the my attention can be taken from what im watching on tv to questioning my own thoughts... Seeing every side to everything.

I think that some people could self diagnose, and then the negative thoughts on having a mental illness snowball on each other and keep getting mulled over until they truly believe they are...

Especially if they are a bit withdrawn and don't have other peoples positive perspective/ideas to help them..

Recently i had a few bad trips on LSD and a week after when i smoked i got uncomfortable around my friends and rushes of anxiety, but it was just because i would get one thought, and question it, then question that and just keep doing it... And i would come to conclusion of "your crazy"

For example, i smoked a few cones, smashed myself. It was slightly cold in the room, but since i was high i started feeling the cold heaps, and started shivering heaps, i could not stop shivering.. so i was like, am i cold, or am i crazy?
That was also combined with, why are we watching the movie, are people laughing with me or at me?

Even though i knew the right answer myself.. i would question it and become uncomfortable with my own thoughts.

I think i had these thoughts because of the bad trip a few weeks ago, and that gave me some "am i crazy" thoughts...
I was not crazy i was just in the middle of a LSD trip, nothing made sense.

But i really really enjoyed smoking before my bad trips, so i didn't like the idea that i could not smoke with out tripping out.

So what did i do? Kept smoking at least once a week, starting with a joint, then cones..
But the trick was to dismiss the negative thought as soon as it arose...
Dismiss the questioning, if it was pointless, and focus on something like music or gaming.

 

[morphinecolors]

I don't think pot causes any mental illness. I think it can bring out an already underlying mental illness or make it worse.

 

[Absynthe]

I think hallucinogens might bring out schizophrenic episodes - but I believe it may more often do it with LSD.
Now there is such a thing as Schizo-affective disorder, which is a subset of Bipolar - the wrong antidepressants brought that about in a friend of mine, and she attempted suicide, because the 'voices' were telling her to. Everyone blew that aspect off, but I could see her actually listening to them, and got her into lockdown...Cymbalta did that to her (though, it seems to help many people). Anti-psychotic drugs, and changing anti-depressants helped, and she's normal now (as long as she stays on her drugs, which include abilify now).