XPost: uk.legal, uk.politics.drugs
From: Blah@hotmail.com
agnon wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:58:38 -0800, Pete nospam Zakel wrote:
>
>> In article agnon
>> writes:
>>
>>> Fair enough. I know many mentals, and many cannabis users, and I firmly
>>> think that there is a clear link.
>> The link may be that they are self-treating.
>
> For most people that is probably the case.
>
> There's a few people who have existing, known, mental health problems
> whose problems are probably made worse by cannabis
>
> There might be a few people with underlying mh problems whose condition
> is brought to the surface by cannabis use, especially heavy cannabis use.
>
> There's a possibility that people with no underlying mh problem have a mh
> problem that's caused by cannabis use, especially if that use is heavy,
> and especially if they are young when they start, but the evidence is far
> from clear about this.
>
> Note that even though I think cannabis may cause mh problems I'm still
> strongly in support of legalizing all drugs. I'm very much against piss-
> poor reporting like that in the Mail, which makes common sense harm
> reduction harder.
>
>
My gf has bipolar syndrome, and her pshycologist is quite insistant that
it was caused by her canabis abuse during her teens. There is no other
bipolar history in her extensive family.
The psychologist also tells us that a growing number of mental health
problems he sees are cannabis related.
Perhaps the Mail reporting might come across as sensationalist, but
don't shoot the messanger just because you don't like the tone,
legalising something with many outstanding questions about what it
really can do to the mind is just plain foolish.
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