XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Sla#s wrote:   
   > Dr John Watson wrote:   
   >> How just one joint could wreck your mental health   
   >>   
   >> By Steve Doughty   
   >> Last updated at 12:13 AM on 28th July 2009   
   >>   
   >> Cannabis causes mental illness and even one-off users show signs of   
   >> behaviour linked to schizophrenia, pioneering research showed   
   >> yesterday.   
   >>   
   >> It found in tests on 22 healthy students and academics that half   
   >> showed an 'acute psychotic reaction' when injected with the main   
   >> active ingredient of the drug.   
   >    
   >    
   > All that this “research” has shown is that cannabis gets you stoned!   
   >    
   > The effects of any drug could be described as those of a mental illness    
   > – just look at how people act after a couple of drinks.   
   >    
   > The research would be a bit more valid if they tested them after the    
   > cannabis wore off.   
   >    
   > Imagine what the results of injecting someone with alcohol would be! It    
   > would be far worse than anything mentioned in this nonsense.   
      
   	Actually injected alcohol is a therapeutic agent in certain    
   conditions.  Such as bony fractures penetrating a fatty layer of    
   tissue.  But maybe they have better treatments for such now than we   
   had in the 1950s.   
      
      
   >    
   > This unfortunately looks like the typical propaganda sponsored research    
   > where the required conclusions were found before the research was    
   > carried out.   
      
   	Absolutely!   
   >    
   > Slatts   
      
   	later   
   	bliss   
      
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