Topic: ...the little voices inside your head....

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http://sympatico.msn.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2004/12/02/pot-psychosis041202.html

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Say it ain't sooo........!!!!!

Bah! I like the voices inside my head...they keep me company  

[bigbenjamin]

Say it ain't so?

"In the study, researchers used a broad definition of psychosis, ranging from occasionally hearing voices and paranoia to schizophrenia.

Jim van Os of the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands and his team found 21 per cent of cannabis users had experienced psychotic symptoms compared with 15 per cent among non-users."

Ok, sounds like it may not be so.
Everybody gets the creeps now and then, and of course if yr very baked, you may become a little "paranoid" - so what? Builds character.
And if you were already a bit unbalanced . . hey, so you kick it up a notch !
Cheers.

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ya a six % difference doesn't seem like much....I just thought the article was rather amusing....kind of a throw back to the reefer madness days......

[Witch-Ho]

A six percent difference is within the usual statistical variability for this type of subjective survey and is therefore scientifically invalid.  I know a thing or two about empirical testing and the scientific method, and with the sample size of the survey they should have a ten percent margin of error at least.  Which means their results came up NIL.  This would not have been reported at all by proper research scientists, it is propaganda.  I'm assuming it comes from the Dutch because their government is tired of their worldwide reputation as a drug haven and wants to discourage the numbers of people who visit just to sit around in hash bars (which I sort of understand, parts of Amsterdam are outrageous and it must be very taxing on the locals).