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Medicinal use of mary jane 3-Dec-2010 At 8:53:21 PM climberman

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I had dinner with a couple of senior NSW health folsk recently, who work in the mental health area. They figure in that recentish general consideration in their professional peers was about 12% of regular long term potsmokers get a level of mental health problems. About 50% of those (so 6% overall) are cases of serious psychosis of the kind that sees you hospitalised, generally involuntarily.

On a more anecdotal level every one I know who's gone mad to the level requiring hospitalisations (around half a dozen) has had chronic pot use as a common abuse problem. They did vary their other intakes though (mushrooms - induced psychosis and successful suicide; speed - paranoid psychosis; acid - just went mad, is still a loose unit 20 years on; and others). The alchoholics really just have been involved in major physical trauma (car accidents or general falls and whatnot), as serious liver damage seems to require long term dedication. Or maybe I got over hanging with alco's.