Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds

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[–]DaijoubuYabai 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I smoked weed for around 15 years. In the mid-1980's, I wanted to stop, and I did so immediately, and without any difficulty. I haven't touched it since then.

I represent a sample space with an N of 1, so of course, no generalizations can be made about my case. However, my situation is still a counterexample to the above generalization.

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I smoked weed for one year as an adult. It relaxed me. I stopped taking care of the nagging problems of life and career, and I went from making $200k /year to making $6k /year. Also a n=1 anecdote. I know many with a similar one though.

Did you start as a youth? That changes things drastically, as you form your personality around being a weedtoker instead of adding it to an already formed personality, in which case the very insidious harm of weed is much more easily identified.

Wait, are you a Jew?