The problem with these studies is that they fail to explore all possibilities... Did you know that close to 80-90% of all schizophrenics attempt to self-medicate themselves with cigarettes and marijuanna? Perhaps, instead, schizophrenics are more prone and open to using drugs.Zark wrote: "The increased risk applies to people who inherit variants of a gene named COMT and who smoked cannabis as teenagers. About a quarter of the population have this genetic make-up and up to 15 per cent of the group are likely to develop psychotic conditions if exposed to the drug early in life. Neither the drug nor the gene raises the risk of psychosis by itself."
quote from: http://www.schizophrenia.com/prevention ... drugs.html
"Results indicated that the hippocampus of marijuana users was 12 percent smaller, and that the amygdala of marijuana users was 7.1 percent smaller than among nonusers. Cannabis use also was associated with sub-threshold symptoms of psychotic disorders. "
Quote from: http://addictionrecoverybasics.com/2008 ... h-summary/
It's also interesting to note that Ayahuasca, the most hallucinogenic and powerful drug on this planet, is well-documented in curing everything from chronic depression to cocaine addiction to even malignant cancers. No one knows how it works these miracles, but after even just one ingestion most people walk away with their lives permanently changed - and oddly enough, always for the better. It makes more sense when you understand what the drug actually consists of... Ayahuasca is a combination of the chemicals harmaline and 5-MeO-DMT, both of which are naturally released from the pineal gland into the bloodstream upon physical death. In a sense, Ayahuasca allows you to have a Near-Death Experience without actually being in physical danger of dying. 5-MeO-DMT is a very powerful hallucinogen by nature, so is it truly harmful when you read a story such as this?