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Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds

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Re: Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds

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If you look at it from a cultural perspective, many African American boys/men in extremely dangerous and poor areas use marijuana as a way to NOT develop mental issues. Considering how little mental help or even how little routine healthcare these men/boys receive, it makes sense to find SOMETHING to cope. Dependence on alcohol has clear bad-examples of the "wino", or street drunk. Same with the use of crack cocaine (the "crack" head/ the "fiend"). So many black men smoke lots of marijuana, but don't drink and don't do any other drugs.

Also, the environments they need to navigate requires understanding tattoos, colors, signs and tons of other subtle social cues in order to not become a target or deemed to be weak. There may be an under-reporting of instances of schizophrenia, but on a whole these brothers aren't showing signs of schizophrenia due to over use of marijuana.

And really, our current laws are just used to arrest someone, who might be an overall good person, besides the social stigma of "weed smoker". I really do beg anyone who is conservative on this issue due to the POSSIBILITY of someone developing schizophrenia, to maybe consider this as magnitudes less harmful than the use of marijuana policy to target black men; specifically black boys; and putting them in jail and ruining their future. You have to understand the environments they are coming from; so just saying "stay off the dope" is very callous and uninformed. Your life experience isn't the template for everyone.

I know this is a touchy topic on HN, but I really do hope we are able to open our circle of trust to people we wouldn't normally think about.

Re: Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds

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> Cannabis is more and more cut with synthetic cannabinoids which are notoriously bad for the brain and mind. Do you have a link to support that?

that's a pretty well documented trend. Google it.

I've seen products like K2 and Spice that are synthetic, sold as separate products. I haven't seen actual cannabis that had added synthetics.

Re: Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds

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You have the power to search for "cannabis iq" and find the literature. Generally I expect some basic scientific literacy on HN. But of course I should have learned by now to expect science denialism when ego is at stake. If you want a concrete source look at any of the studies that cite the twin studies, including the meta-analysis from this year. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici... Scien…

They might be right about "makes you smarter". I mean, here you are complaining that SA isn't "peer reviewed", which is pretty stupid because they're publishing the results of studies done by others, not doing or controlling them.

Ha. I honestly don't think I've ever seen such a childish response on HN.
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