[chris-h]

Big huge business that will not be affected by the peak oil.

http://www.medicalmarihuana.ca/bcc.html


Find out how to:

* Fill out a form and become a marijuana grower
* Choose a strain, grow, package and ship your marijuana
* Start your legal marijuana business
* Access hard to find government information
* Become part of a billion dollar industry

Join the new legal marijuana industry!


For canadians only it seems.

[americandream]

I am not sure about posting media links in these forums but the 8 Feb edition of The Montreal Gazette has an article on this.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ou forgot the link?

You must be stoned

[Ludi]

"The researchers did not look at whether family history of psychosis played a role in determining who was most vulnerable to marijuana's apparent early-triggering effect."

That seems like a significant oversight. Genetics appears to play a role in some mental illnesses. Perhaps vulnerability to bad side effects of pot-smoking has a genetic link also.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I') don't know how old your are AD (does that stand for Attention Deficit Disorder?) but that same crap story has been floating around for generations. The science behind sucks, the studies are garbage, and the agenda is obvious. Who's side are you on? The giant pharmaceuticals?

My state, the great state of California, the state that feeds and entertains you (we actually did invent the movie industry and the internet) has all but legalized pot because it is the right thing to do, your acetic post-communist drivel notwithstanding.

[vision-master]

lsol - Smoking pot is good treatment for mental illness.

Mental Marijuana
Can reefers cure madness? There is some evidence that cannabis – or 'green Prozac' – has potential in the treatment of some psychiatric disorders, principally depression and bipolar disorder.


"I think cannabis has a lot of potential in the treatment of mental illness," says Lester Grinspoon, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the Harvard School of Medicine. He says that it can be an effective treatment for bipolar disorder and depression. Like any medicine, he cautions, it won't work for everyone.

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/19687/

[Ludi]

Maybe a lot of mentally ill folks try to self-medicate with pot. Seems to me they would be more likely to try to find help in plant chemicals and other chemicals such as alcohol than people who are mentally healthy. So the fact that a lot of pot smokers are mentally ill might be because a lot of mentally ill people smoke pot and not because pot causes mental illness.

<<<< doesn't smoke pot

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', ' ')Genetics appears to play a role in some mental illnesses. Perhaps vulnerability to bad side effects of pot-smoking has a genetic link also.

[vision-master]

Creative enlightened ppl like to smoke pot - what a wonderful 'erb it tis.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', ' ')Genetics appears to play a role in some mental illnesses. Perhaps vulnerability to bad side effects of pot-smoking has a genetic link also.

[americandream]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'l')sol - Smoking pot is good treatment for mental illness.

Mental Marijuana
Can reefers cure madness? There is some evidence that cannabis – or 'green Prozac' – has potential in the treatment of some psychiatric disorders, principally depression and bipolar disorder.


"I think cannabis has a lot of potential in the treatment of mental illness," says Lester Grinspoon, emeritus professor of psychiatry at the Harvard School of Medicine. He says that it can be an effective treatment for bipolar disorder and depression. Like any medicine, he cautions, it won't work for everyone.

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/19687/

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'C')reative enlightened ppl like to smoke pot - what a wonderful 'erb it tis.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'L')ike I said, only those of us who aren't dependent on this substance should really be deciding on its legality.

[Cid_Yama]

Oh, please.

Psychotic disorders have a genetic link, and onset is often linked to major childhood stressors.

For such a study to have any validity, it would need to control for family history of psychosis, which it did not.

I do not smoke myself, but know people who have for 50 years who are well functioning members of society.

You obviously have members of your family with a history of psychosis. Any drug with psychoactive effects can trigger symptoms in those prone to mental disorders in the first place.

Sorry your brother has mental problems but your connecting it with his marijuana use sounds like a bias that allows you not to look for other possible precursors.

Also, Marijuana is not a narcotic. You sound like Jack Webb on Dragnet.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'C')reative enlightened ppl like to smoke pot - what a wonderful 'erb it tis.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('americandream', 'M')y brother had no underlying mental illness generating issues. If anything, his circumstances were anything but arduous.

[vision-master]

Many times it's just a chemical imbalance in the brain.