Marijuana Causes Mental Illness?

hewey
Sat, 10 May 2008 01:58:03 +0000

I’m not going to get involved in this overall legalisation argument because I don’t want to get slapped via the internet, so here are just my few cents on some earlier arguments:


@ alipes07: Dude, you seriously can’t be arguing that you faint when you’re high. You “pass out”, ie. fall asleep. When it comes to any kind of intoxication (of this kind) we all know that when someone reaches the end of their night, they aren’t fainting. Like you said, fainting is due to a lack of blood or oxygen being received by the brain. That isn’t what occurs when one smokes or drinks too much. They simply fall asleep due to the body’s natural shut-down system function. When talking in within this context, there is a difference.
It’s also worth it to note the effects that cannabis use has on developing brains, rather than a matured adult’s. Cannabis has been shown to be severely more detrimental to youths’ brains as the drug severely inhibits neuropsychological and neurophysiological development. I’d assume that all studies posted here are tests completed on grown adults rather than high school or college level young adults. Like very other drug the effects are far more damaging on a growing body than on a fully developed one, yet we all know that the majority of users are at the high school or college level age (or at least below 25, when the normal human brain is said to be fully matured).