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   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   5trfg6h7 wrote:   
   > "Dr John Watson"  wrote in message   
   > news:7d7f6nF29dd6gU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >   
   >> 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. :-(   
      
   	Ah but there are spontaneous remission of every illness.   
   But since there are reasons to think that brain damage may be   
   involved with some schizophrenias some never get well, ever.   
      
   >   
   > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1202583/How-just-joi   
   t-wreck-mental-health.html   
   >   
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   	later   
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