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Post details: Quote of The Week (from Drug Policy Alliance)

08/14/07

10:15:02 pm, Categories: Announcements, Health Matters

Quote of The Week (from Drug Policy Alliance)

"Smoking pot won't make you crazy, but trying to find the truth behind the recent rash of headlines regarding a supposed link between cannabis and mental illness might."

-- Paul Armentano of NORML and Mitch Earleywine, marijuana researcher, in The Huffington Post. They responded to recent headlines suggesting that a new study shows that smoking marijuana can increase a person's risk of psychosis.

FACT: The "new study," published in the Lancet, was actually a meta-analysis of seven past studies, some of which were many years old. In addition, the investigators concluded that the small connection between marijuana and psychosis did not reflect a causal relationship.

Here's Nurse Brenda's take on this linking of cannabis use with psychosis.......

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