Next time someone tells you weed causes schizophrenia...

[havoc]

tell them to fuck off!
The Insanity Virus

Schizophrenia has long been blamed on bad genes or even bad parents. Wrong, says a growing group of psychiatrists. The real culprit, they claim, is a virus that lives entwined in every person's DNA.

[wurst]

hm the virus theory is in discussion for a several years, for numerous diseases.
humans are just learning how this part of themselfes works.
hope they find something soon, the files are following me! Flies EVERYWHERE FLIES OMG AND BEESKILLERBEES THEY WANT MY BEER AAAAH

[natirips]

the files are following me!

I imagine this was a typo, but it was hella funny.

[havoc]

lol more like freudian slip

[Ana]

nothing against, but i wouldnt joke about weed consum and its possible effects on psychological status of a person. Not everyone reacts the same on it.

[havoc]

true. nevertheless, statements such as these (weed is a gateway drug, causes schizo, makes you kill your family with an axe etc) are the basis of certain international politics, which, in the end, get people in jail, not to mention few countries that have death penalty. and not to mention the whole "war on drugs" fail.

[Deviant]

I have absolutely nothing against weed. However, if weed was to be legalized, where would you get the funds to treat the problem users? Or think about how much traffic accidents would increase? I have a friend who smokes and he used to rant me about the subject a lot :/

[havoc]

if its legal and sold freely (like in .nl), you can tax it and get the funds.

if its legal and quietly sold only to members of the cannabis social clubs (like in .es), you wont be getting that many problem users.

[KnightINDIA]

yeah the incidents during childhood do cause problems later on but meditation helps. It is a proven fact. I lived with a sychophrenic person. Cured just by medition. Instead of taking medicines, even hypnotism helps.

[wurst]

hm, shizopfrenia is known as a "mechanical" disease:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantia ... physiology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine

Its THE case in medicine history, where it went different then they exepted.
Nomally all kinds of psychical abnormal behaviour are treated as "social" diseases.
So schizophrenia was mainly treated by psychologists.
Later, the treatment of morbus pakinson brought schizophrenia als a side effect. Thats how they found it out: by accident.

So, however, its sure that the disease aint be curable with words or meditation.
Its in one category with broken legs, torn/biten-off ears/noses etc.

the article now points on how that cells in substanzia nigra could have been damaged.
i think for at least 5 years its scientific mainstream to research the effect of certain virusses.
statistics gave them hints with slighty higher numbers for persons that were born in winter.
the effect is just seenable when u have muuuuch data, such persons have "just 1 winter more in their life" then others

about the article:
its written like a battle poem and not like a scientific work or report.
dunno, i read some part of it and clicked teh little red x.

for the case u think someone in your environment is a schizophreniac:
-Dont expect him/her to understand what u mean.
-Be sure that a doctor will see it.