High potency 'skunk' cannabis leads to earlier psychotic episodes

[YankeeFan]

This is not your grandpa's weed:

Mental illnesses are triggered six years earlier in patients who have smoked high-strength cannabis every day, a study has claimed.

Mental health patients who smoked skunk daily - which has a high amount of the drug's active ingredient, THC - had their first psychotic episode at an average age of 25, compared to 31 for non-users.

Yet the damage was not limited to heavy smokers or those using powerful cannabis, according to the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London.

Mental health patients with a general history of using cannabis still had their first psychotic episodes at 28 - three years earlier than those who never tried the drug.

And those who smoked the drug before they were 15 put themselves more at risk, with their first symptoms at the age of 27 instead of 29.

Dr Marti Di Forti, who led the study, wrote: 'Daily use, especially of high-potency cannabis, drives the earlier onset of psychosis in cannabis users.'

http://dailym.ai/1aikYx4

Young people, having psychotic episodes? That can't lead to anything bad, huh?

 

[old_tony]

I'm guessing it will lead to more calls for gun control when one of these psychotic episodes leads to a shooting.

 

[Starman]

 

[Batman]

Bull****. Pot is harmless, with no lasting physical or societal effects whatsoever.

 

[YankeeFan]

Bull****. Pot is harmless, with no lasting physical or societal effects whatsoever.

It's an herb, man. It's totally natural.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Young people who drink excess coffee die at a higher rate than young people who don't drink coffee:

http://metro.co.uk/2013/09/09/caffeine-health-risks-just-a-storm-in-a-coffee-cup-3954966/

 

[LongTimeListener]

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

 

[Batman]

Bull****. Pot is harmless, with no lasting physical or societal effects whatsoever.

It's an herb, man. It's totally natural.

It's from the earth, man.
You know who smoked weed?
George. Washington.

 

[User 4332]

The notion that high THC pot is new is a myth. It's been around since at least the early 70s.

It may not have been may grandpa's weed, but it was my dad's.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Hell, yes. Today's Afghan skunk was 1978's Hawaiian, etc.

Biggest change has been pinpointing exactly what particular strains do for the user.

http://www.leafly.com/explore

 

[MisterCreosote]

 

[User 11148]

[The study] focused only on people who already had mental illnesses. It did not try to establish whether cannabis causes psychosis on its own.

Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, said that was still a key question to answer.
"The thorny question is whether they might otherwise have developed the disease or would have not had mental illness," he said. "It's a distinction we haven't figured out yet."

 

[Riptide]

Booze kills.

Booze kills others, too.

 

[Greenhorn]

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