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smckean (Tosca)
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Anyone who does not believe that this is on the rise in America is a fool or blind or naïve. |
I just read this article. The author makes a very common mistake often made by folks who are not scientifically trained (yes, I am so trained).
There is a huge difference between correlation and cause/effect. In this article this distinction is not made. Given how the article describes the study, there is no way to tell which is the cause and which is the effect in the correlation found between pot and psychosis. Does the psychosis result from smoking pot; or do folks prone toward psychosis often choose to smoke pot (just as they might drink alcohol, or perhaps be obsessive about waxing their car, or a dozen or more other things that psychotics may potentially be more prone to do as psychotics). The two behaviors may be correlated, true, but that does not tell you which is the cause and which is the effect. |
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Pandion
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 3:43 pm Post subject: |
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OK, so perhaps we can all agree there hasn't been sufficient research, yet, to reach definitive conclusions about the short- and long-term health effects of cannabis use. But, as Malcolm Gladwell observes in this recent New Yorker Magazine article, there is enough info out there right now to give us lots of pause before advocating its use. _________________
Andy Ryan
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Bear in mind two facts:
1. Marijuana was illegal to possess--and thus very few real scientific studies have been done. Even the effect on seizures, pain relief, anti nausea etc have not had valid studies done.
2. There is big money behind the "success" of the business of marijuana. _________________ Bob Austin
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Pandion
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Big money indeed. Big marketing, too.
In the above-mentioned New Yorker article, the author recounts a researcher's visit to the first recreational-marijuana facility in Massachusetts. Here's what the researcher found on the menu — "each offering laced with large amounts" of THC:
—Strawberry-flavored chewy bites.
—Large, citrus gummy bears.
—Delectable Belgian dark chocolate bars.
—Assorted fruit-flavored chews.
—Assorted fruit-flavored cubes.
—Raspberry flavored confection.
—Raspberry flavored lozenges.
—Chewy, cocoa caramel bite-sized treats.
—Raspberry & watermelon flavored lozenges.
—Chocolate-chip brownies. |
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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“Drugs and drink are the two arms of the devil with which he strikes
his helpless slaves into stupefaction and intoxication.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
Aye. _________________ "I don't want any cake" - said no one ever.
If someone tells you they don't eat cake, unfriend them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life. |
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Pandion
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Foggy wrote: | “Drugs and drink are the two arms of the devil with which he strikes
his helpless slaves into stupefaction and intoxication.” |
... and gummy bears. |
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