2/9/10

MARIJUANA AND SCHIZOPHRENIA - - THE TRUTH

Can you handle it?

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  1. I'm not sure this is entirely accurate; the narrator speaks as if anybody in the "unlucky 0.4-0.6 percent of the population who has schizophrenia running in the family" is destined to become a schizophrenic.

    First of all, 0.4-0.6% is the percentage of people who actually become stricken with schizophrenia. Elementary logic dictates that a much larger percentage of the public has a relative somewhere in the family that is affected. So well over 0.6% of the population has schizophrenia somewhere in its heredity.

    Secondly, a family history of schizophrenia is in no way a definitive indicator. It is merely a risk factor, as heredity is with most diseases. Having a father who dies of a heart attack doesn't mean a son will undoubtedly die of a heart attack, it simply indicates a larger-than-average risk of that particular cause of death in the son. Same thing here.

    The narrator is right, of course, that smoking marijuana does not "cause" schiozophrenia. But some of the numbers and reasoning in this video are pretty suspicious. I'm not sure who "the REAL drug facts" is, but it sounds like they need to brush up on their mental illness facts.

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