News (Media Awareness Project) - Canada: PUB LTE: Medical Marijuana |
Title: | Canada: PUB LTE: Medical Marijuana |
Published On: | 2010-03-11 |
Source: | National Post (Canada) |
Fetched On: | 2010-04-02 03:12:31 |
MEDICAL MARIJUANA
The assertion that marijuana "causes" mental illness simply doesn't
hold water. The math doesn't add up.
Canadians smoke the most potent pot in the world, we smoke more of it
than any other country and teen usage of pot use has increased four
times in the past 30 years. There should be a corresponding increase
in the number of schizophrenia and psychosis cases in Canadian
hospitals over that time, but the number of such cases has remained
about the same at about 1.1% of the population.
So much for that "reefer madness."
Russell Barth, federally licensed medical marijuana user, Nepean, Ont.
The assertion that marijuana "causes" mental illness simply doesn't
hold water. The math doesn't add up.
Canadians smoke the most potent pot in the world, we smoke more of it
than any other country and teen usage of pot use has increased four
times in the past 30 years. There should be a corresponding increase
in the number of schizophrenia and psychosis cases in Canadian
hospitals over that time, but the number of such cases has remained
about the same at about 1.1% of the population.
So much for that "reefer madness."
Russell Barth, federally licensed medical marijuana user, Nepean, Ont.
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