Marijuana linked to Schizophrenia

@tigerturban, What, exactly are you calling bullshit man? Can you even point out what you disagree with? Are you saying that my ability to find these research articles is bullshit, or are you claiming the correlation bullshit? Do you know what a correlation is? Will you answer these questions, or will you resort to some kind of personal attack, again?

What exactly are you trying to prove?

What, exactly, is your disagreement?

Do you even know or are you just pissed off that marijuana is correlated with something negative?

@tigerturban, A character flaw is something like what your presenting here… “using fuck off” and calling me a “fucking geek” is enough for me to realize that.

So I should rather not report the correlation, and hide that? You would rather dismiss all (possible) negative effects of the thing, in face of only the positive?

That isn’t very intelligent.

i already told you, you’re argument is one-sided…you’ve already tried to dismiss my point that cannibus is prescribed (SUCCESSFULLY) for a wide variety of psychological and physical ailments. That makes you a goof. (for lack of a better word)

@ijesuschrist,

“Nearly all of them stemmed only from smoking weed.”

Was it the weed that led to the break, or was it the circumstances of their reality, combined with the demotivating/slowing effects of weed, that led to it?

I say this because of a generalization I have observed, I find the frequent use of weed is correlated to emotional damage, as the individual has a conscious/subconscious need to leave the reality they are in for a better one.

So, in what you read, did they describe the circumstances surrounding their reality?

@tine, I don’t know, but generally they become hyper-paranoid, they think they have become “poisoned” or something, that the batch was laced, they become ultra-aware and nervous. An overall negative feeling prevails…

Then it lasts for days, a month… sometimes they are changed, radically, from there on out… I think that weed can allow it to happen, probably, as you said – given life circumstances. I think its a very complicated issue, but that marijuana can play a role, somehow, just as the other entheogens in psychotic breaks.

For the most part, however, I think these psychotic breaks aren’t some kind of illness, I think they are extreme stress, and given the nature of weed – one simply doesn’t expect it to happen. It can be extremely confronting to “wake up” on weed – 1) you are high 2) you are not expecting it and 3) many people don’t understand what’s really going on.

@chemicalspike, The UK is also full of child molesters which might account for all the diddleheads..

The articles are right, although cannabis does not only trigger schizophrenia. It can also trigger psychosis associated with other disorders such as Bipolar. The reason is the many generations we have now been growing cannabis and modifying it. Cannabis has two mind-alerting chemicals, one whose name I cannot remember at the moment and the other being the well known chemical THC. THC is the hallucinogenic chemical in cannabis while the other chemical is responsible for the anti-anxiety effect. Through selecting strains that have a higher THC content and a lower content of the other chemical we have begun to produce cannabis that is vastly different from the cannabis we were growing in the 60′s and 70′s. Older people will firmly confirm this when asked on a empirical level. Now cannabis is much more hallucinogenic, while much more likely to make you paranoid and/or anxious. This combination of factors (i.e. it being highly hallucinogenic without any anxiety calming element) has lead to it starting to trigger episodes of psychosis to those who are predisposed to it.

I have no idea. But from personal experience I have had definite paranoid, schizophrenic like breakdowns while incredibly stoned before. One time I hit a homemade Gravity Bong for the first time and thought the entire world was out to get me. The entire thing was deja vu and I thought I knew what was going to happen. What’s crazy is that I actually predicted a few things. This only made me think I could predict things and then I started to think the cops were out to get me. I ended up flushing my weed in a McDonalds bathroom…

What comes first: The chicken, or the egg?

@aidenblair,
You can access all of my videos on my YouTube channel, bipolarORwakingUP.
Here’s a link to a popular video on mine on hallucinations:

Also, to help you clarify your research, here’s a few points to consider:

1. While drugs are a trigger, they usually are part of a bigger series of traumas and triggers which all work together to cause a psychotic break. So, for example, its common for people with very diffcult family situations to resort to using marijuana as a coping strategy. So, in truth, for some people, the psychotic break is caused by both the family difficulties and the marijuana. The scenario surrounding a person’s mental disorder is usually quite complex and multi-faceted, but can be understood.

2. While it is generall accepted that people with mental disorders tend to be more emotionally sensitive and often creative by nature, no clear link to any genetic malfunction has every been found. The theory of chemical imbalance related to people having too much (or too little) seratonin or dopamine (or whatever) is a complete myth still promoted by the pharmaceutical industry. There are no biological or genetic tests to prove anyone has a mental illness listed in the DSM.

See:

http://chriskresser.com/the-chemical-imbalance-myth

3. Much is made about the confusion related to misdiagnosis, but in truth, all of these labels you just mentioned are just that – labels helping doctors to categorize a certain group of symptoms, and that categorization changes over time. For example, 20 years ago, most people with an acute psychosis ( ie: a serious break with reality often involving profound spiritual experiences as well as delusions, paranoia and even hallucinations.) would be labeled as having schizophrenia. Today, most people with acute psychosis are labeled with Bipolar 1. Bipolar 2 is reserved for people with the more classic manic-depression or hypomania. FYI, Bipolar 3 is for psychosis which is directly caused by marijuana or other mind altering substances, and Bipolar 4 is psychosis caused by coming off anti-depressants too quickly. So yes, psychiatric medications can cause psychosis (ie schizoprenia) as well! (as can extended meditation!). So its a complex subject. I hope my videos can help you sort things out!

4. Even thought they can be frightening and are almost always powerful, these non-ordinary experiences can be very transformative, even leading to spiritual breakthroughs. That’s what happened to me, and that’s why I do this work online. So a psychotic break may not be the end of the world. In fact, it may be a whole new beginning!

Sean Blackwell

http://www.bipolarorwakingup.com