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Originally Posted by ryukenden
It affects people who are using it years rather than months. Also if you are suspectible to schizophrenia, it could trigger the disorder. It will not cause everyone who use it to becomes schizophrenic. In general poppulation, the risk of developing schizophrenia is 1 percent and so if you are marijuana long term user, your risk will be about 3-5 percent chance. But if you got other risk factors like family history of schizophrenia, it could trigger the illness. Family history itself is risk factor e.g. if one of your parent is schizophrenia, your risk will be 12-15 % percent. There are some more risk data here.
http://www.mindpedia.com/schizophrenia2.htm |
Great info. I've noticed over my time enjoying buds that people who are pre-disposed to mental illness (genetically), generally flip out after long periods of puffing the magic dragon. It can happen after a little but generally it takes a while.
All joking aside, marijuana is safer than to tobacco and the effect, in my opinion, is better. Toke up!
Personally, I haven't smoked in a long while, I noticed overall I'm a lot less tense for a while when I have a few puffs.. If it calms me down but doesn't burn me out, I'm cool
