Crackdown on marijuana increases rates of cannabis psychosis

[The Straight Story]

Crackdown on marijuana increases rates of cannabis psychosis

Researchers from the University of York have demonstrated that the change in cannabis declassification in 2009 has coincided with a significant increase in hospital admissions for cannabis psychosis – rather than the decrease it was intended to produce.

The UK Misuse of Drugs Act (1971) divided controlled drugs into three groups – A, B and C – with descending criminal sanctions attached to each class. Cannabis was originally assigned to Group B, but in 2004, it was transferred to the lowest risk group, Group C.

In 2009, on the basis of increasing concerns about a link between high strength cannabis and schizophrenia, it was moved back to Group B.

Researchers from the University’s Department of Health Sciences examined admissions to psychiatric hospitals in England between 1999 and 2010 to explore whether the reclassifications in 2004 and 2009 were associated with changes in the admissions rate for cannabis psychosis.

They found that there was a significantly increasing trend in admissions from 1999 to 2004, but following the reclassification of cannabis from B to C in 2004, there was a decline until 2009. Following the second reclassification back to class B in 2009, there was once again a significant increase in admissions.

http://www.psypost.org/2013/07/crackdown-on-marijuana-increases-rates-of-cannabis-psychosis-19117

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Right. I love how people go "pot is bad for people susceptible to schizophrenia!!!"

Yeah, right. And how is throwing people susceptible to schizophrenia into prison over a dime bag of weed good for them?

[Fumesucker]

2. Tobacco is bad for people susceptible to lung cancer and heart disease

A forty two year old neighbor just had quintuple bypass surgery, he's still smoking cigarettes.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. It certainly wasn't good for my Dad.

I'm always real glad I never picked up that habit.

[Politicalboi]

4. And where do we get this

High strength cannabis? I smoked pot in the 80's and today's pot is almost garbage in comparison. I'm sorry but, I don't get as high as I used to then. Some say tolerance, perhaps a little bit yes. Weed in the 80's actually smelled like weed SHOULD smell like. Not some rag weed Strawberry shit. And even doubled bagged, you could still smell it, and it was sticky. The shit today you can hardly smell if you leave it out. I know the red glazed eyes look is gone for good, and the radical cotton mouth, and the heavenly smell of Skunk bud, and the resin that would accumulate on that joint are GONE.

IMO the psychosis is the fear of being arrested at any given moment while smoking it. And just like alcohol, it's not for all people.

I was actually THERE to know the difference from weed then and now. I've been smoking for over 30 years. Until you've bought a bag of Skunk that smelled to high heaven and made the baggie stick to it too, you just bought garbage. Enjoy!

But that's all that's out there today. So sad.

[Bluenorthwest]

6. This makes me feel so badly for you! The lovey dank of your neighbors to the north is reeky

and sticky and a gram can make your house smell like a grow site. I have noticed that CA commercial dispensary medicine tends to be a sort of mid grade masquerade of excellence, this is not the case up here. Seriously not the case.
If you ever pass through, you can smell for yourself.....

[TroglodyteScholar]

8. Just because you're getting shitty weed...

...doesn't mean weed isn't as good as it used to be. It means you need to find someone else to get weed from.

[uncle ray]

9. apparantly anywhere but where you are.

no quality problems here.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Oh FFS!

[fredamae]

7. I gotta wonder

Which comes first-Cannabis use or are these people seeking Relief from Cannabis for a pre existing Psychosis?

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