Pot-Smoking And the Schizophrenia Connection

[YankeeFan]

Heard this WSJ opinion piece by Dr. Samuel T Wilkinson, who is a resident physician in the Department of Psychiatry at The Yale School of Medicine, discussed on the radio this afternoon:

As research accumulates, the emerging picture is that marijuana precipitates schizophrenia or related psychotic disorders in people whose brains are inherently vulnerable to psychosis. All of us who do not regularly experience hallucinations or delusions reside on what may be called a "cliff of sanity." Some of us, for reasons still unclear (thought possibly to be genetic), are closer to the edge of the cliff than others.

Marijuana may push everyone a few feet closer to that cliff. For those who were already close to the cliff, the drug pushes them over the edge into the chasm of insanity, hence precipitating the development of schizophrenia.

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/article/SB10001424127887324637504578566094217815994.html

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Well, by the good doctor's theory, I've bounced down the cliff twice like Homer Simpson in the Springfield Canyon episode.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

In related news ...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/index.html

 

[Boom_70]

 

[Lugnuts]

Explains Amanda Bynes.

 

[Starman]

STOP LOOKING AT ME.