POSTED MARCH 07, 2011, 11:03 AM , UPDATED NOVEMBER 30, 2011, 2:28 PM

Ann MacDonald Contributor, Harvard Health
Teenagers and young adults who use marijuana may be messing with their heads in ways they don’t intend. Evidence is mounting that regular marijuana use increases the chance that a teenager will develop psychosis, a pattern of unusual thoughts or perceptions, such as believing the television is transmitting secret messages. It also increases the risk of developing schizophrenia, a disabling brain disorder that not only causes psychosis, but also problems concentrating and loss of emotional expression. In one recent study that followed nearly 2,000 teenagers as they became young adults, young people who smoked marijuana at least five times were twice as likely to have developed psychosis over the next 10 years as those who didn’t smoke pot. Another new paper concluded that early marijuana use could actually hasten the onset of psychosis by three years. Those most at risk are youths who already have a mother, father, or sibling with schizophrenia or some other psychotic disorder. Young people with a parent or sibling affected by psychosis have a roughly one in 10 chance of developing the condition themselves—even if they never smoke pot. Regular marijuana use, however, doubles their risk—to a one in five chance of becoming psychotic. In comparison, youths in families unaffected by psychosis have a 7 in 1,000 chance of developing it. If they smoke pot regularly, the risk doubles, to 14 in 1,000. For years, now, experts have been sounding the alarm about a possible link between marijuana use and psychosis. One of the best-known studies followed nearly 50,000 young Swedish soldiers for 15 years. Those who had smoked marijuana at least once were more than twice as likely to develop schizophrenia as those who had never smoked pot. The heaviest users (who said they used marijuana more than 50 times) were six times as likely to develop schizophrenia as the nonsmokers. So far, this research shows only an association between smoking pot and developing psychosis or schizophrenia later on. That’s not the same thing as saying that marijuana causes psychosis. This is how research works. Years ago, scientists first noted an association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Only later were they able to figure out exactly how cigarette smoke damaged the lungs and other parts of the body, causing cancer and other diseases. The research on marijuana and the brain is at a much earlier stage. We do know that THC, one of the active compounds in marijuana, stimulates the brain and triggers other chemical reactions that contribute to the drug’s psychological and physical effects. But it’s not clear how marijuana use might lead to psychosis. One theory is that marijuana may interfere with normal brain development during the teenage years and young adulthood. The teenage brain is still a work in progress. Between the teen years and the mid-20s, areas of the brain responsible for judgment and problem solving are still making connections with the emotional centers of the brain. Smoking marijuana may derail this process and so increase a young person’s vulnerability to psychotic thinking. (You can read more about how the adolescent brain develops in this article from the Harvard Mental Health Letter.) While the research on marijuana and the mind has not yet connected all the dots, these new studies provide one more reason to caution young people against using marijuana—especially if they have a family member affected by schizophrenia or some other psychotic disorder. Although it may be a tough concept to explain to a teenager, the reward of a short-time high isn’t worth the long-term risk of psychosis or a disabling disorder like schizophrenia.
I do not want any of this tracing every seed to seedling with a rf tag . That is overkill . No government can afford this heavy-handed, top down , you stoners are sick attitude. No one has died from cannabis ever !
Weed actually tastes and smells goooooooddddd. Wine taste nasty and smell not as good either. Cannabis is just super safe. No hangover no dehydration. No anger. Calms your mind. Levels hormones. And reduces body temperature making it a very affective medicine for a fever For children and adults.
We are suppliers and distributors of different varieties of hash, oil, vaporizer, and medical marijuana strains that is good for cancer, others illness. we sell top shelf marijuana????half oz $150 oz $250 QP $600 HP $1200 Pound $2500 dm if interested????ship world wide???? ????no medical card required EMAIL jerryrgalloway2@gmail.com
There are 3 main things that will take a hit…1 cotton industry..2 oil companys…3 pharmaceutical industries…this is why it was made illegal in the first place..and one more…paper industries.
!!!ENDTHEDRUGWAR!!! (famous quotes) “…marijuana [in its natural form] is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.” –Francis Young (DEA’s own Judge)
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use…” – Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)
“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.” -Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)
"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could." “The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.” – William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author and commentator)
"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." – Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobilologist, author & science communicator)
“You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it.” ….when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana. – Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)
Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use." -Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)
"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?" “Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?” “…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit … unnatural?” -Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)
– – My Personal Favorite – –
"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on." – Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)
While Obama was amused entertainment gaiety, North Korea was building up its nuclear potential. Trump loses the cold war of North Korea. The US is losing its superpower status. Liberal Obama led the US to a decline in leadership, in the economy, and confidence in the future. Addiction increases.
Go for the sour d. She can’t find pickers, we can’t find trimmers, we trim our own. You can’t grow without a cultivator card. Wine is fine but weed is way better……. happy New year Cali 🙂 woot
Listen to the talking heads – seriously, who do they think they are? Oh wait, isn't that guy in the middle a baby molester & the woman on the right used to work at Mitchell Bros. in SF.
Do you like prison. The feds gonna get ya!
Maybe you should pay your workers a little more if you don't want to lose them to marijuana harvesting.
psychosis
POSTED MARCH 07, 2011, 11:03 AM , UPDATED NOVEMBER 30, 2011, 2:28 PM

Ann MacDonald
Contributor, Harvard Health
Teenagers and young adults who use marijuana may be messing with their heads in ways they don’t intend.
Evidence is mounting that regular marijuana use increases the chance that a teenager will develop psychosis, a pattern of unusual thoughts or perceptions, such as believing the television is transmitting secret messages. It also increases the risk of developing schizophrenia, a disabling brain disorder that not only causes psychosis, but also problems concentrating and loss of emotional expression.
In one recent study that followed nearly 2,000 teenagers as they became young adults, young people who smoked marijuana at least five times were twice as likely to have developed psychosis over the next 10 years as those who didn’t smoke pot.
Another new paper concluded that early marijuana use could actually hasten the onset of psychosis by three years. Those most at risk are youths who already have a mother, father, or sibling with schizophrenia or some other psychotic disorder.
Young people with a parent or sibling affected by psychosis have a roughly one in 10 chance of developing the condition themselves—even if they never smoke pot. Regular marijuana use, however, doubles their risk—to a one in five chance of becoming psychotic.
In comparison, youths in families unaffected by psychosis have a 7 in 1,000 chance of developing it. If they smoke pot regularly, the risk doubles, to 14 in 1,000.
For years, now, experts have been sounding the alarm about a possible link between marijuana use and psychosis. One of the best-known studies followed nearly 50,000 young Swedish soldiers for 15 years. Those who had smoked marijuana at least once were more than twice as likely to develop schizophrenia as those who had never smoked pot. The heaviest users (who said they used marijuana more than 50 times) were six times as likely to develop schizophrenia as the nonsmokers.
So far, this research shows only an association between smoking pot and developing psychosis or schizophrenia later on. That’s not the same thing as saying that marijuana causes psychosis.
This is how research works. Years ago, scientists first noted an association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Only later were they able to figure out exactly how cigarette smoke damaged the lungs and other parts of the body, causing cancer and other diseases.
The research on marijuana and the brain is at a much earlier stage. We do know that THC, one of the active compounds in marijuana, stimulates the brain and triggers other chemical reactions that contribute to the drug’s psychological and physical effects.
But it’s not clear how marijuana use might lead to psychosis. One theory is that marijuana may interfere with normal brain development during the teenage years and young adulthood.
The teenage brain is still a work in progress. Between the teen years and the mid-20s, areas of the brain responsible for judgment and problem solving are still making connections with the emotional centers of the brain. Smoking marijuana may derail this process and so increase a young person’s vulnerability to psychotic thinking. (You can read more about how the adolescent brain develops in this article from the Harvard Mental Health Letter.)
While the research on marijuana and the mind has not yet connected all the dots, these new studies provide one more reason to caution young people against using marijuana—especially if they have a family member affected by schizophrenia or some other psychotic disorder. Although it may be a tough concept to explain to a teenager, the reward of a short-time high isn’t worth the long-term risk of psychosis or a disabling disorder like schizophrenia.
Don't mix it with alcohol
So far so good for wine. Wine drinkers and weed smokers gel well. Liquor rage dirty drunks and chill potheads do not mix well.
lol outdoor, these are the type of people to charge $35 an 1/8th for some mids
Recreational growers i frown upon. Their weed is grown like conventional foods and are of bad quality compared to organics
hey look everybody, matt lauer… how's retirement?
I do not want any of this tracing every seed to seedling with a rf tag . That is overkill . No government can afford this heavy-handed, top down , you stoners are sick attitude. No one has died from cannabis ever !
Marijuana heals your mind and body and helps let go of harsher drugs. Like alcoholism. Crystal meth use. Cocaine. Heroin. Pills. ect.
Weed actually tastes and smells goooooooddddd. Wine taste nasty and smell not as good either. Cannabis is just super safe. No hangover no dehydration. No anger. Calms your mind. Levels hormones. And reduces body temperature making it a very affective medicine for a fever For children and adults.
F alcohol. Nothing good has ever come from it. Cannibis is what got me to quit drinking 20 yrs ago.
If your drinking and not driving then while your committing to staying in one place for a while…
We are suppliers and distributors of different varieties of hash, oil, vaporizer, and medical marijuana strains that is good for cancer, others illness.
we sell top shelf marijuana????half oz $150 oz $250 QP $600 HP $1200 Pound $2500 dm if interested????ship world wide???? ????no medical card required
EMAIL jerryrgalloway2@gmail.com
I thought Alaska was the first legal state. Back in the 80's or something.
Legalize it, i will advertise it!!! the late Great "Peter Tosh" 💚💛❤️
There are 3 main things that will take a hit…1 cotton industry..2 oil companys…3 pharmaceutical industries…this is why it was made illegal in the first place..and one more…paper industries.
The wine can easily adapt to cannabis
its about time
!!!END THE DRUG WAR!!! (famous quotes)
“…marijuana [in its natural form] is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man.”
–Francis Young (DEA’s own Judge)
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use…”
– Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)
“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”
-Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)
"Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
“The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”
– William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author and commentator)
"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
– Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobilologist, author & science communicator)
“You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it.” ….when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
– Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)
Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
-Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)
"Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"
“Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?”
“…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit … unnatural?”
-Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)
– – My Personal Favorite – –
"If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
– Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)
Well weed is no drug
What about all the people that was incarcerated for this? How come are they being blocked from getting a license?
Weed red wine 🍷
BOOOOOOO! More flakes!
I wonder what is real amount of Dutch ancestry in the American people LOL
haha, Matt.
maibe pay the workers more
we hope wine tanks.
While Obama was amused entertainment gaiety, North Korea was building up its nuclear potential.
Trump loses the cold war of North Korea. The US is losing its superpower status. Liberal Obama led the US to a decline in leadership, in the economy, and confidence in the future. Addiction increases.
Weed & wine go good together.
I have BOTH FOR SALE – http://www.CaliforniaRecreationalMarijuana.com and http://www.RecreationalMarijuanaCalifornia.com , contact me and I will tell you how to use both, to boost your Cali Weed business! ty
Go for the sour d. She can’t find pickers, we can’t find trimmers, we trim our own. You can’t grow without a cultivator card. Wine is fine but weed is way better……. happy New year Cali 🙂 woot
Does Matt smoke?
Listen to the talking heads – seriously, who do they think they are? Oh wait, isn't that guy in the middle a baby molester & the woman on the right used to work at Mitchell Bros. in SF.
The cannabis industry's numbers are going take out those of the wine industry easy asf
Texas needs help
Smoke weed
Drink wine
Eat pizza
wine is so much better than weed lol obviously both should be legal tho
Grade AAA-medical marijuana,Xanax bars, roxi,.. at kreckbroadsales@gmail.com.
Cannabis is an agricultural product, just like wine grapes, and it should be treated the same.