Minimal Relationship Between Cannabis and Schizophrenia, Says New UK Study

by Rajshri on  October 24, 2009 at 8:20 PM General Health News
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Matt Hickman, one of the authors of the report published last week in the scholarly journal Addiction, said that "preventing cannabis use is important for many reasons – including reducing tobacco and drug dependence and improving school performance. But our evidence suggests that focusing on schizophrenia may have been misguided. Our research cannot resolve the question whether cannabis causes schizophrenia, but does show that many people need to give up cannabis in order to have an impact on the number of people with schizophrenia. The likely impact of re-classifying cannabis in the UK on schizophrenia or psychosis incidence is very uncertain."



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10/27/2009

Given the evidence of the medical efficacy of Cannabis, the fact that it is the only known cure for cancers, alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, the only real effective treatment for glaucoma, the safest medicine or pain management, not to mention the aid for depression and many mental ailments, why would anyone want to keep this medicine from sick people?

It is time the war on cannabis and its users ended, it is time to allow people to be cured instead of simply kept alive with addictive and damaging drugs that cure nothing.

When is the medical profession going to stand up for genuine cures against government religious beliefs that oppose science and kills.

When are medical professionals going to live up to the promise of 'First do no harm'?

It is time for truth in both medicine and government and the media need to step up to the plate and expose the lies that come from both.




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