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   From: jygffv568@jogrtyhf456v.com   
      
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   > How just one joint could wreck your mental health   
   >   
   > By Steve Doughty   
   > Last updated at 12:13 AM on 28th July 2009   
      
   > Their report, published in the Psychological Medicine   
   > journal, said: 'The findings confirm that THC can induce   
   > a transient, acute psychotic reaction in psychiatrically   
   > well individuals.'   
      
   An acute psychotic reaction that is transient?   
      
   They mean being high, don't they?   
      
   > The sentiments most commonly felt by the subjects   
   > included 'people seem to be dropping hints about   
   > you or saying things with a double meaning' and   
   > 'you hear your own thoughts being echoed back to you'.   
      
   My guess shooting THC into a vein has a different   
   effect than smoking weed. Certainly even eating   
   weed has a different effect than smoking it - it is   
   much more psychedelic.   
      
   > They noted that after the THC injections, the subjects   
   > showed 'marked deficits in working memory and   
   > executive functioning and a trend towards impaired   
   > episodic memory'. All three are associated with   
   > schizophrenia.   
      
   > As the results were seized on by campaigners for   
   > tougher drug laws, a Home Office spokesman said:   
   > 'We have always said that cannabis is a harmful drug.'   
      
   I guess they just never had the evidence... and still don't.   
      
   But who shoots up pure THC? Cannabis consists   
   of over 50 cannabinoids, only one of which is THC,   
   and they all interact in some way.   
      
   There has been no correlation found in the real world,   
   between cannabis and any disease, mental or physical.   
      
   And lastly, there is no such thing as transient schizophrenia. :-(   
      
   http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1202583/How-just-joint   
   wreck-mental-health.html   
      
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