Quarter of mental health cases linked to cannabis (in one medical ward)
bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
* Cannabis is a common psychosis trigger to those with an existing disposition (even if they don’t know it yet).
* Legal access to cannabis increases the number of people using it. This sounds obvious, and it is, but the most bandwagonny drive-by harm reduction advocates will deny it.
* There is a lesser frequency of psychotic episodes in heavy users because plenty of people learn to stay away from their psychosis triggers once they know what they are. Those that continue, are somewhat less likely to present to a hospital (voluntarily).
All of these things are true, yet this article is still pearl clutching bait.
From the article:
> The report notes 94% of heavy cannabis users never experience psychosis.
Is there a number (below 100%) that would make it "fine"?
This article is really bizarre. It seems the BBC continues to spiral into a thinly veiled mouthpiece of the government/conservatives.
(checks the time of day) The BBC is unlikely to continue to be a mouthpiece of "the conservatives" much longer.
But they may continue being government mouthpieces.
“Cannabis is a common psychosis trigger to those with an existing disposition (even if they don’t know it yet).”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255842/
Some press is conservative and some press is liberal. It’s been like this since the beginning of journalism.
Read both.
Statements with a shorter self-life than a Lettice.