Wasting Time With Alex

Can’t say I am surprised..

I have always believed that people that do drugs have to be insane, but it now looks like researches have found that marijuana - the stuff we get told by people that want to legalize it for casual use is harmless - really is not so safe:

LONDON — Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous.

The new review suggests that even infrequent use could raise the small but real risk of this serious mental illness by 40 percent.

Doctors have long suspected a connection and say the latest findings underline the need to highlight marijuana’s long-term risks. The research, paid for by the British Health Department, is being published Friday in medical journal The Lancet.

“The available evidence now suggests that cannabis is not as harmless as many people think,” said Dr. Stanley Zammit, one of the study’s authors and a lecturer in the department of psychological medicine at Cardiff University.

Now before you go accusing this study of bias, take note that it was done in England where drug use, while not legal, is not frowned upon as much as it is here. In fact it was paid for by the British Health department. It could very well be that this study is done so that the NIS does not have to pay for marijuana prescriptions - the wonders of a socialist healthcare system which usually means restricting the care you provide to cut costs comes too mind - the druggies are likely to be demanding. Who knows. But there is a tidbid more to the story.

The researchers said they couldn’t prove that marijuana use itself increases the risk of psychosis, a category of several disorders with schizophrenia being the most commonly known.

There could be something else about marijuana users, “like their tendency to use other drugs or certain personality traits, that could be causing the psychoses,” Zammit said.

Maybe I am a medical genius too as it looks like they are saying drug users tend to be psychos and engage in idiotic risk taking that could be the cause (likely consequence) of their condition. Play it safe. As Mr(s). Garrison in South Park would say “Drugs are bad.. Hmmmkay”