Cannabis Study - ITV News 27/7/2007

It would seem that we are slipping back 70 years in attitudes towards cannabis use. The UK newspapers are full of headlines just like those in the 1936 anti cannabis film 'REFFER MADNESS' -- it would be funny but for the uneducated and ignorant and hysterical knee-jerk reaction to this wonderful herb. I was a psychiatric nurse working on an addiction unit and a general admissions ward for 22 years. Not once in that time did I meet or treat a patient who had 'gone mad' or become schizophrenic by using cannabis -- I did meet a number of schizophrenic and other psychotic patients, all of whom said that they did not use cannabis as it made them feel worse.

All psychiatrists that I worked for agreed that cannabis would compound symptoms and cause psychotic episodes in patients with a major psychotic illness -- and they all agreed that cannabis was NOT the cause of their illness. They all also agreed that cannabis is a relatively harmless substance for those who did not have a history of psychotic illness.

The numbers of schizophrenic patients, per head of population HAS NOT RISEN in the last 30 years. The numbers of schizophrenic patients in countries such as Holland, where cannabis laws are relaxed, is no higher than in countries where the laws are strict, such as France -- these topographical figures prove beyond a doubt that cannabis, while making an existing and sometimes latent psychotic illnesses worse, it is not and has never been the CAUSE of schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses.

The motivations for re-grading cannabis are political and yet another example of how the people of Britain are being pressurised to conform to a set of puritanical rules -- we cannot smoke in public yet our nation drops bombs on innocent people -- we are told that we drink too much -- take too many drugs -- we eat too much, or we eat the wrong things - our children are all yobs - paedophiles lurk in every shadow, and to top it all they are convincing us that global warming is our fault, not the fault of the big corporations [have a look at coca cola's or the oil and plastic industries environmental track record, ]

A nation in fear, a nation weighed down with guilt is a good place for the drug companies to make a lot of money, I wonder how much money is made from Prozac and similar products. Hmmmm, I wonder how much will be made from a drug to treat an imaginary cannabis psychosis. It has been shown that people under stress will consume more, will get deeper into debt, become more violent, will display more racist tendencies. Take a look around you, then light up a spliff!

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[b6makavelithugz]

I smoke 3 fukin spliffs everyday, and nothing ever happen 2 me. These people just chat too much bullshit!! Like this comment if u think this i true

[GaryNewmann0709]

suck my balls i love weed !

[maarkryaan]

0:40 smoking paper?!

[singmetocreation]

@scateordie so because you fucked up and smoked laced shit you want everyone else who have successful lives based on cannabis to stop? because of people like you and retards who don't know how to buy/grow homegrown shit that is not laced with anything. I'm not saying your a retard but i am saying just because very few people have a bad situation with weed it doesn't mean it should be banned from everyone, some people have bad reaction to bacon or cologne but those are still legal.

[Aeolus14]

So if u r normal with no mental illness u r ok to smoke cannabis. But if u do u can make it worse with cannabis. Just like if u suffer from heart attacks tobacco and alcohol can make it worse.

[ZONE6666]

utter bollocks!!!...period!!! 

[spursfan112]

Don't believe this crap the reporters saying its harmless!

[scateordie]

I think its true i smoked weed for 15 years all day every day and then one day went crazy and havnt been the same since and every time i smoke weed again it triggers my crazyness.i wish i could just smoke and relax like i used to be able to do but now i cant even explain how weed makes me feel.

[BekBud1]

wait what thats right shut the fuck up,

[intercannabis]

Assessing the impact of cannabis use on trends in diagnosed schizophrenia in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005. This was a HUGE study the largest ever completed with 600,000 people,there conclusion:

The incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia & pychoses were either stable or declining.In conclusion, this study did not find any evidence of increasing schizophrenia or pychoses in the general UK population from 1996 to 2005.

GOOGLE- keele university cannabis schizophrenia

OMG UK Reefer Madness

[dickie4thepeople]

@faris2k6

sources?

[nickkcinable]

crazy, a purple frog just told me im awsome weed has no side effects dumb docters