Marijuana Causes Mental Illness?

banana
Fri, 16 May 2008 03:57:00 +0000

Blanket statements really drive me nuts.

I’m a big fan of the term “individual variability” in terms of drug effects.

Will marijuana cause you to get a mental illness? Probably not.

Will marijuana enhance your overall health? Probably not.

Is marijuana completely harmless? No.

The idea that marijuana is “healthier” than any other drug of abuse? That kind of makes me laugh. So it’s okay because it’s the least bad? And using the words “healthy” in this context seems…odd and vague. I think of wheat grass and carrots when I think of healthy - things with proven benefits that outweigh the risks for animals across the board.
Just a strange use of language, I guess.

I agree that a lot of studies are flawed. There is also the MAJOR flaw that most of the marijuana studies going on right now are using pot with much lower THC levels than regular street level marijuana. Whoops.