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Somebody can have a disposition for psychotic illness and live a whole lifetime without it manifesting. Drugs could be the trigger that destroys that person's l
by codebolt 6y ago
Somebody can have a disposition for psychotic illness and live a whole lifetime without it manifesting. Drugs could be the trigger that destroys that person's life. Maybe these drugs should be allowed to be used in certain clinical settings, but I wish they had a better grasp on the risk factors for psychosis, so they knew who not to give it to. Certainly they should be kept illegal for recreational use, including marijuana.
- andai 6y agoI'm against criminalization but I'm also against widespread recreational use until we have a technology to tell you if you have a predisposition or not. I've seen a lot of people's lives ruined by psychosis, and all but one were chronic cannabis users for 1-2 years prior. A causal relationship has been established. It gradually alters brain function over time. For some people (arguably 2%), this eventually pushes them over a threshold for psychosis. It seems there's no way of knowing in advance if you will be one of them.
- looper_dude 6y agoWell, if your life is fucked up and not in a stable mindset before deciding to take them, or there's a history of mental illness in your family, those would be some red flags to seriously consider before purchasing your ticket.
- andai 6y agoExactly. And yet, those are precisely the kind of people who are the most attracted to the substance. Previously it was suspected to be a mere correlation -- that there's something about underlying mental disorders that draws one to cannabis, rather than cannabis causing mental disorders. In recent years, they have established a causal relationship cannabis -> psychosis (assuming the predisposition is there, of course).