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Hot Topic: Link Between Marijuana and Schizophrenia Surprisingly enough, this is not really all that surprising to me especially considering all the people who still smoke just as mildly today as they often did 5 -10 yrs ago combined w/ the age in that most people started smoking anyway. And besides, who are we kidding??? The mind of people is weaker than it once was so what do you expect? But leave it to science and research and they'll always come up w/ something though or a condition for it...

By Maia Szalavitz of Time:

One explanation may be that the two factors are coincidental, not causal: perhaps people who have a genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia also happen to especially enjoy marijuana. Still, some studies suggest that smoking pot can actually trigger the disease earlier in individuals who are predisposed, and yet researchers still aren't seeing increases in the overall schizophrenia rate or decreases in the average age of onset.

In recent months, new research has explored some of these issues. One study led by Dr. Serge Sevy, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, looked at 100 patients between the ages of 16 and 40 with schizophrenia, half of whom smoked marijuana. Sevy and colleagues found that among the marijuana users, 75% had begun smoking before the onset of schizophrenia and that their disease appeared about two years earlier than in those who did not use the drug. But when the researchers controlled for other factors known to influence schizophrenia risk, including gender, education and socioeconomic status, the association between disease onset and marijuana disappeared.

For the complete article go to Time...
Posted by Amtrax at 4:38 AM