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fluidity
Joined: 04 Jul 2008 Posts: 190
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Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:47 pm Post subject: 'The Downside of High' documentary: pot cause schizophrenia? |
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The documentary 'The Downside of High' played tonight on Canada's public national TV channel, CBC.
It features such assertions as, if you smoke pot, you are twice as likely to have psychosis, and if you smoke pot before you are 16, you are four times as likely to have psychosis.
You can see more info at:
http://www.cbc.ca/documentarie.....index.html
(note the sidebars which include 'facts', 'resources', online discussions, etc)
and here is a press release announcing the showing of it:
http://www.mindyourmind.ca/inf.....wnside.pdf
and an article in a national Canadian newspaper:
http://www.nationalpost.com/ne.....id=2492142
It looks like sometime in the next week it will be available for full viewing at: http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/Show....._of_Things
Currently there is 1:50 teaser at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PP8tsmW9Z0
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a friend on facebook reposted this info after condemning the scare tactics of the broadcaster:
| Quote: | | [T]he expected rise in diagnoses of schizophrenia and psychoses did not occur over a 10 year period, authors concluded. This study does not therefore support the specific causal link between cannabis use andincidence of psychotic disorders. ... This concurs with other reports indicating that increases in population cannabis use have not been followedby increases in psychotic incidence. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19560900 |
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Nightbloom

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 6576
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Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:24 am Post subject: |
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oh i saw where pot helps trauma... a study...and trauma often triggers the situations that cause one to be diagnosed with schizophrenia studies have shown too. but pot like any medicine is not for everyone.
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