Schizophrenia/Psychosis UK

[tony2wheelsgood]

this letter was in reply to an anti cannabis rant in a nurses magazine. the new research it refers to is just out as a leak from Keele Uni here in staffordshire, england. i know you'll enjoy it. syart writing to your papers with this as ammo and see if you get published!

 

"At the ACMD meeting, the 23 medical and drug experts heard a personal presentation on the possible mental health impacts of higher potency cannabis from psychologist Dr Martin Frisher, of Keele University pharmacy school. The presentation used unpublished data from a confidential report he has drawn up for the Home Office.

He and his colleague Professor Illana Crome, of Keele's academic psychiatry unit, used data from 183 GP practices across Britain between 1996 and 2005 to work out whether schizophrenia is on the rise, and whether it can be linked to the increase in cannabis use since the 1970s.

Their confidential paper found that between 1996 and 2005 there had been significant reductions in the incidence and prevalence of schizophrenia. From 2000 onwards there were also significant reductions in the prevalence of psychoses.

The authors say this data is 'not consistent with the hypothesis that increasing cannabis use in earlier decades is associated with increasing schizophrenia or psychoses from the mid-1990s onwards.'

The research was designed to test the predictions of a previous study, published last year by Dr Matthew Hickman and colleagues at Bristol University, which suggested that changes in cannabis use since the 1970s would lead to expectations that the prevalence of schizophrenia cases would increase by 10% to 20% over the next few years. The results show that not only has there been no increase but the number of new cases has dropped.

Scientists stress that the vexed question of whether cannabis causes schizophrenia remains unclear. They currently think that 8% to 10% of patients who suffer schizophrenia-like illnesses would not have had the condition had they not used cannabis."

 

source: nursinginpractice.com/default.asp?title=UnitecritcisereporteddecisionforcannabistoremainclassC&page=article.display&article.id=9817

[mullray]

Yes, scientifically speaking I think most of us here agree the wizz bang experts in the field of drug hysteria have been indulging in far too many pharmaceuticals of late Sort of doesn't add up even more so when you factor in these wild claims of massive increases in THC over the past decade and how they greatly contribute to mental illness (schiz). Geez, I guess we're back to where we began and there goes the reefer madness spin doctoring done through the UN - Hi Antonio Maria Costa!!! . A word to you lads at the UN. A lie can only be sustained for so long before you wear the egg on your face and where there is one lie it is safe to assume there are more lies. Thanks for bringing this to us. Good read.