I wrote, with a shocking error in spelling "cannabis" (a word I chose merely to avoid having to spell "marijuana"): > > > > >And they're at it again, cause jumping from correlations. This time it > >seems to be that cannibis causes schizophrenia. See > >http://tinyurl.com/fbue5 > > > >
Rick Stevens speculated: > Is it possible that a 'vulnerable person' who has not been diagnosed > with schizophrenia is already having some symptoms and that these > symptoms cause the person to be more likely to use cannabis? > Schizophrenia is known for making people feel unhappy and cannabis is > known for making people feel happy. Good suggestion. To go even further, cannabis may help postpone the onset of schizophrenia, and the schizophrenic-prone may be taking it as a form of self-medication. It's not so far-fetched. Schizophrenics are notoriously heavy smokers (of tobacco, which inexplicably remains legal despite its known harmful effects), and a current hypothesis is that they're using it as a form of nicotine self-treatment. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
