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12-01-04, 03:27 PM
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| Foolish Bastard  Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Downtown
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 | "Don't smoke pot if your family is nuts", say the Dutch
LONDON (Reuters) - Teenagers and young adults who frequently use cannabis are increasing their risk of suffering from psychotic symptoms such as bizarre behavior and delusions later in life, Dutch scientists said on Wednesday. Young people with a family history, or pre-existing susceptibility to mental instability, are particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of the drug. "Cannabis does not act in the same fashion on psychosis risk for everybody. There is a group that is particularly susceptible," Professor Jim van Os, of Maastricht University in the Netherlands, told a news conference. He and his colleagues studied 2,437 young people aged 14-24 and identified those with a predisposition for psychosis. They also questioned them about their cannabis use and followed them up for four years. "The results show that in the group without vulnerability to psychosis, there was a small effect of cannabis on the onset of psychotic symptoms four years later," Van Os said. "But this risk was four times bigger in individuals who had a personal vulnerability to psychosis." Van Os said the study also showed the odds of experiencing symptoms of psychosis were higher for people who smoked cannabis more frequently. The findings, which are reported online by the British Medical Journal, are consistent with the results of other studies. Doctors do not understand how cannabis increases the risk of mental illness but they suspect it affects the dopamine system in the brain which is associated with pleasure. [taken from: YahoO News]
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12-01-04, 04:40 PM
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| Funky Spunk  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: take a left at the cow
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Insane in da membraine, INSANE IN DA BRAIN!!
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12-01-04, 04:40 PM
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| Foolish Bastard Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Downtown
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NEED TANK PICTURES NANDO! I'll get Hawk to lend me his tri-pod. It has extenda legs.
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12-01-04, 05:04 PM
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I actually think they're on to someting with this one. I have a friend with generlized anxiety disorder and he has a panic attack elmost every time he smokes.
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12-01-04, 05:09 PM
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| Funky Spunk Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: take a left at the cow
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Right on, maybe this weekend? Not sure yet, kinda loaded with extra work but I think I can manage, and good thing on the tripod cause I don't have mine at the moment. Let me know.
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12-01-04, 05:10 PM
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| Foolish Bastard Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Downtown
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*AHEM* It's my birthday this weekend. Quote:
__________________ True, without falsehood, certain and most true, that which is above is the same as that which is below, and that which is below is the same as that which is above, for the performance of miracles of the One Thing. And as all things are from the One, by the meditation of One, so all things have their birth from this One Thing by adaptation. | |
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12-01-04, 05:14 PM
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| Funky Spunk Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: take a left at the cow
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 Shows you where I have been..... and you are celebrating it where? Need the 411 mang!!
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