Daily or high-potency cannabis increases risk of psychotic disorder, study finds

According to this study there is a link between heavy use and psychotic disorder. I remember hearing an interview on NPR with Eric Clapton after he opened his rehab facility where he pretty much said the same. I consider myself a fairly even keel kinda person but my useage has increased quite a bit now that I have jars of the stuff. I have to admit I do feel a bit detached from people around me sometimes...moreso lately.

Anyone else find that daily use of high potency herb affects you negatively? I'm thinking of growing CBD or just quitting entirely.

And this month Eggs are bad for us again.Next month they wil be good again. I think the world won't be happy until we go back to being cave people.Then someone will bitch that your campfire is
polluting their airspace.

McStrats said:

According to this study there is a link between heavy use and psychotic disorder. I remember hearing an interview on NPR with Eric Clapton after he opened his rehab facility where he pretty much said the same. I consider myself a fairly even keel kinda person but my useage has increased quite a bit now that I have jars of the stuff. I have to admit I do feel a bit detached from people around me sometimes...moreso lately.

Anyone else find that daily use of high potency herb affects you negatively? I'm thinking of growing CBD or just quitting entirely.

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Got a link to this study?

dstroy said:

Got a link to this study?

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Click on the very first sentence...

Schwagg#12 said:

And this month Eggs are bad for us again.Next month they wil be good again. I think the world won't be happy until we go back to being cave people.Then someone will bitch that your campfire is
polluting their airspace.

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Sigh...that's the problem with discourse in 2019..."my opinion beats your data" and who are "they" ? maybe the study rings a little too true?

McStrats said:

I have to admit I do feel a bit detached from people around me sometimes...moreso lately.

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Hey, I got that detachment thing going but I'm an introvert (retired from people) so it works out quite nicely for me. It seems that "professionals" worry bout us loners.

I think part of it for me is tuning in to nature and the earth and most of our society is NOT tuned in... so yeah that then leads me to be an introvert with most of the fake bullshit people in this world (I mean just look at the idiots running the show and that is a Bi partisan bash btw lol) I would rather quit the bullshit societal rat race then give up my ganja... Like Killer Mike says "Imma smell like a pound when they put me in the coffin!" Real shit

I'm at about a 1/4 oz per day, and no - it has not made me more negative. Been using at that level for years. If anything it makes me more talkative - certainly not more negative. You've probably noticed as people age, some get mean. Maybe that's part of it.

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That’s an npr article, thanks for the link.

Here's the study:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30048-3/fulltext

"Participants were asked if they had ever used cannabis in their lifetime; if the answer was yes, they were then asked to give details on their pattern of use."

Self-reporting is inherently unreliable, people lie.

The article doesn't prove anything. They correlate heavy cannabis use with a psychotic episodes, and their test subjects also admitted to using various types of other drugs at the same time as cannabis.

The way it was setup, they waited for someone to have a psychotic episode, and then asked them what drugs they used.

Do you think that someone who is depressed might turn to cannabis to self medicate before they seek medical attention? Yes.

Sometimes, might that person be suffering from severe symptoms that can only be controlled with prescribed medications, but was a heavy cannabis user? Yes. They would still potentially have a psychotic break.


That was a good read, thanks.

dstroy said:

That’s an npr article, thanks for the link.

Here's the study:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30048-3/fulltext

"Participants were asked if they had ever used cannabis in their lifetime; if the answer was yes, they were then asked to give details on their pattern of use."

Self-reporting is inherently unreliable, people lie.

The article doesn't prove anything. They correlate heavy cannabis use with a psychotic episodes, and their test subjects also admitted to using various types of other drugs at the same time as cannabis.

The way it was setup, they waited for someone to have a psychotic episode, and then asked them what drugs they used.

Do you think that someone who is depressed might turn to cannabis to self medicate before they seek medical attention? Yes.

Sometimes, might that person be suffering from severe symptoms that can only be controlled with prescribed medications, but was a heavy cannabis user? Yes. They would still potentially have a psychotic break.


That was a good read, thanks.

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That's a very insightful take and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

deno said:

I'm at about a 1/4 oz per day, and no - it has not made me more negative. Been using at that level for years. If anything it makes me more talkative - certainly not more negative. You've probably noticed as people age, some get mean. Maybe that's part of it.

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Holy shit! are you making sandwiches out of it or something?

Just like the study for eggs those JAMA style studies are terrible. They ask ppl questions about their entire life and expect them to remember everything accurately. It would be better if the had a group of ppl and had them fill those surveys out each month for years on end thus making it an effective study.

Interesting afib study is coming out I saw on curiosity stream news. Don't worry. The FDA will take care of it.

dandyrandy said:

Interesting afib study is coming out I saw on curiosity stream news. Don't worry. The FDA will take care of it.

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Monsanto Marlboro joints inc. lol

dstroy said:

That’s an npr article, thanks for the link.

Here's the study:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30048-3/fulltext

"Participants were asked if they had ever used cannabis in their lifetime; if the answer was yes, they were then asked to give details on their pattern of use."

Self-reporting is inherently unreliable, people lie.

The article doesn't prove anything. They correlate heavy cannabis use with a psychotic episodes, and their test subjects also admitted to using various types of other drugs at the same time as cannabis.

The way it was setup, they waited for someone to have a psychotic episode, and then asked them what drugs they used.

Do you think that someone who is depressed might turn to cannabis to self medicate before they seek medical attention? Yes.

Sometimes, might that person be suffering from severe symptoms that can only be controlled with prescribed medications, but was a heavy cannabis user? Yes. They would still potentially have a psychotic break.


That was a good read, thanks.

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Once it's no longer federally illegal, you'll see more useful research enter the fray.