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Originally Posted by HenryDavidThoreau
Regardless of being paranoid, aggressive, anxious, or even if you are schizophrenic you are still accountable for your actions. If someone developes schizophrenia after using cannabis it was something they were going to have to deal with in the future. It could be triggered from anything such as alcohol or stress. Unfortunately schizophrenics tend to have high rates of substance abuse to deal with illness at its begining stages. Which furthers doubt in my mind about cannabis/mental illness finds, where do you find a schizoprenic that just abuses one drug? Yes cannabis can further a condition like schizophrenia but it certainly does not happen over night. It is not a single puff, then you go crazy. The truth is the legality of cannabis is not going to effect the amount of cases of mental illness, it just wont. Austrlia, UK, and other countries where cannabis use is on the rise are not seeing an increase of mental illness cases and countries with decreasing cannabis usage are also not seeing the expected decline in mental illness cases.
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There is no reason, however--no logical reason to allow that substance to be fully accessible. It doesn't make sense by any logical standard. There is enough evidence that shows the negative effects of marijuana far outweigh the positives. The negative effects are on a greater scale than the positives as well, and society will not have it. The evidence raised in studies, in lab tests, surveys, etc. is enough for society to make a decision for the greater good and discourage the use of a selfish indulgence--marijuana--that has a negative effect on law-abiding non-users.
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