Posted by linkadge on December 28, 2006, at 18:51:08
In reply to Re: Marijuana, the Anti-Drug » linkadge, posted by Quintal on December 28, 2006, at 18:19:14
>The schizophrenia risk allegedly comes from the >fact that marijuana alters perception in a way >that tobacco doesn't - it's supposedly a >hallucinogen (as is tobacco at high doses). The >increased paranoia is a high trigger risk in >people who have paranoid schizophrenia and it >may also accelerate the decline in somebody >already half way there.
Schizophrenia is more than a temporary alteration of biochemical functioning. There are real, structural differences in the brain's of schizohrenic patients. Such abnormalities have never been linked to marajuanna use.
I don't think it can cause schizophrenia, but yes it is a risk to use in somebody with a mood disorder or schizophrenia.
I don't recomend getting stoned or even high. For me, a few puffs is more than enough to kill anxiety and insomnia, without getting high at all.
>It's had a definite effect on me - I now >have 'seeing in' and 'seeing as' hallucinations >quite often. I 'see' faces or and hidden >messages in the most common unassuming objects >and it's not all hallucination because there are >hidden shapes in these things.Do you have any relatives with schizophrenia or schizophrenic like illnesses? I have had residual effects from prescription drugs. For instance, lithium + SSRI's was very trippy. I thought the railway crossing barriers were swords of giant soldiers.
>I get very paranoid and afraid of people when >I'm stoned - conversation is not exactly >scintillating either.
I'm not trying to dismiss your case at all. I guess I am just saying that different people have different experiences. Was your source clean? My friend smoked for years and had a single psychotic break when he unwittingly smoked some laced with PCP.
Thats kinda why I encourage the medicinal use of it. At least people know then what they are getting.
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