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New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[โ€“] warmaster@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

From the same site:

The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is Real

Sam started high school as a fairly good student with several friends. Over time he began using cannabis daily. He took it a variety of ways, first with friends at parties and then, more and more often, alone. His parents noticed increasingly odd behavior: He blocked the camera on his laptop and placed cardboard over the windows in his room. He stopped showering. He began refusing to go to school. Against Samโ€™s will, his parents took him to a rehab facility for teens. During the three-week program he was fully abstinent from cannabis, but, disturbingly, his psychotic symptoms got worse rather than better; simply stopping wasnโ€™t enough for Sam to recover.

By the time his family came to my clinic, he had had persistent delusions for more than six months. Sam was fully convinced that the government was following him and constantly surveilling him.

[โ€“] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

This isn't news but the article is making the usual mistake of looking at THC content instead of THC/CBD/other cannabinoid ratios. Hash has always been higher-concentration than weed, yet noone ever accused it of being worse. We only have a limited number of receptors in the brain, once they're full they're full and maxing them out is not that difficult with any strain that's not bred for fibres.

CBD in particular acts as an antipsychotic, while THC serves up the main head high. Strains got optimised for "clueless teen off the streets is impressed by potency" and thus you got incredibly THC-heavy strains. Education, of course, was severely lacking because of the illegality of it all, and the sensationalist press can't really make headlines out of "in legalised markets you see plenty of CBD-rich strains because informed customers ask for it".

As to the effect themselves, I think it's important to distinguish between genuine "normie smoked too much and lost the plot" and "schizo smoked and their first episode came half a year early". Anecdotally, I wouldn't know, I was weird before and after, quoth the therapist: "Sounds more like self-medication". Cannabis as true cause, and not just flanking factor, seems to be exceedingly rare. Probably rarer than alcohol psychosis if researchers were bold enough to call some of the common delusions in alcoholics psychotic.

Wanna hear my paranoid schizo ramblings? The "Weed causes psychosis" narrative is pushed by big pharma because research on CBD being a good treatment for psychosis is getting more and more conclusive and they won't be making money off it. That, or the science journalism is just shoddy wouldn't be the first time.

[โ€“] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

This is too easy a joke, but what do expect if the content comes from a scientific American.