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Posted on 05.12.08 by Thomas L. Knapp
“Teenagers who use marijuana put themselves at higher risks for serious mental health problems, including worsening depression, schizophrenia, anxiety and suicide, according to a new White House report. The goal is to ‘correct the blind spot we’ve had in our society that’s caused more young people to suffer,’ Director of National Drug Control Policy John Walters said. ‘The short message is: Marijuana’s not safe.’” [editor’s note: Walters’s stormtroopers likely harm more people on any given day than marijuana itself has harmed in the history of its use. The researchers behind findings of correlation between marijuana and depression and other ills have been careful to state that the obvious conclusion — that the problems pre-exist the cannabis use and the cannabis use is a self-TREATMENT attempt — is at least as likely as the ONDCP’s non-obvious conclusion - TLK] (05/09/08) Link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/09/depression.marijuana/ Filed under: RRND News | Report Bad Link Bookmark this post in Furl or Del.icio.us | |






