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altyfc Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Location: Aardvarkland Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:02 am	Post subject: Mental health charity calls for cannabis probe A British health charity has called for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of mental illness. Rethink, which campaigns on behalf of schizophrenia sufferers, said the mental health risks of using cannabis were not widely understood. More here. Aaron


Thais Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Location: UK Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:08 pm	Post subject: I do agree. Longterm use of cannabis can have strange effects on peeps who are perfectly normal. I wouldn't recommend the use of any drug to people with mental health....or those born under the sign of Aries! But how can you stop them?

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:54 pm	Post subject: Thais wrote: I do agree. Longterm use of cannabis can have strange effects on peeps who are perfectly normal. I wouldn't recommend the use of any drug to people with mental health....or those born under the sign of Aries! When you talk about long term effect, are you talking about physical damage in brain or some other part of your body or something else?

braindamaged Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:02 pm	Post subject: 1st cannabis skunk death but still living I smoked the skunk form of cannabis heavily daily for a few years and now my brain has completely turned to mush and the mental illness I suffer is intolerable. Every day is living torture and every day I wish I was dead, I can not concentrate my, memory feels non existent, I can not interact with people, intense anxiety/fear to the extent it can feel painful, social phobia, paranoia, traumatized by horrific thoughts, severe depression, suicidal urges, I could go on and on, lets just say life really is not worth living any more. When Tony Blair down graded cannabis to class C it encouraged me it was relatively safe. Now I wish he would reclassify skunk to class A as I feel it should be, cannabis is not what it used to be, skunk is at least ten times stronger, it is just too strong. I have learnt from experience the hard way and now my life is over, yet unfortunately I am still alive, I am only 26. I feel I have gone totally mad, my personality has been completely burnt away, I am like a vegetable with slurred speech, my brain is burnt out and totally damaged. I stopped a long time ago and have not recovered. Life used to be ok. Thanks to skunk it is now torture and I wish I was no more.

iRuleThisForum Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:38 am	Post subject: I suppose you wouldn't recommend any use of cannabis or you think it's ok to smoke a little?

Scolls Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:48 am	Post subject: Re: 1st cannabis skunk death but still living braindamaged wrote: I smoked the skunk form of cannabis heavily daily for a few years and now my brain has completely turned to mush and the mental illness I suffer is intolerable. Every day is living torture and every day I wish I was dead, I can not concentrate my, memory feels non existent, I can not interact with people, intense anxiety/fear to the extent it can feel painful, social phobia, paranoia, traumatized by horrific thoughts, severe depression, suicidal urges, I could go on and on, lets just say life really is not worth living any more. When Tony Blair down graded cannabis to class C it encouraged me it was relatively safe. Now I wish he would reclassify skunk to class A as I feel it should be, cannabis is not what it used to be, skunk is at least ten times stronger, it is just too strong. I have learnt from experience the hard way and now my life is over, yet unfortunately I am still alive, I am only 26. I feel I have gone totally mad, my personality has been completely burnt away, I am like a vegetable with slurred speech, my brain is burnt out and totally damaged. I stopped a long time ago and have not recovered. Life used to be ok. Thanks to skunk it is now torture and I wish I was no more. Thanks for a very eloquent post! If YOUR brain "has completely turned to mush"... and you post as well as that, then I'm afraid the rest of us have even more mushed brains by comparison! But tell me, since you've smoked such a helluva lot of cannabis: 1) Can you tell me where skunk comes from? 2) Can you describe it to me? 3) How did you smoke it? (Method of preparation)

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altyfc

Joined: 27 Jul 2004

Location: Aardvarkland

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 11:02 am

Post subject: Mental health charity calls for cannabis probe

A British health charity has called for an investigation into evidence that smoking cannabis may cause psychosis in people at risk of mental illness.

Rethink, which campaigns on behalf of schizophrenia sufferers, said the mental health risks of using cannabis were not widely understood.

More here.

Aaron

Thais

Joined: 07 Aug 2004

Location: UK

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 1:08 pm

Post subject:

I do agree. Longterm use of cannabis can have strange effects on peeps who are perfectly normal. I wouldn't recommend the use of any drug to people with mental health....or those born under the sign of Aries!

But how can you stop them?

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:54 pm

Post subject:

Thais wrote:

When you talk about long term effect, are you talking about physical damage in brain or some other part of your body or something else?

braindamaged

Joined: 07 Sep 2005

Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:02 pm

Post subject: 1st cannabis skunk death but still living

I smoked the skunk form of cannabis heavily daily for a few years and now my brain has completely turned to mush and the mental illness I suffer is intolerable. Every day is living torture and every day I wish I was dead, I can not concentrate my, memory feels non existent, I can not interact with people, intense anxiety/fear to the extent it can feel painful, social phobia, paranoia, traumatized by horrific thoughts, severe depression, suicidal urges, I could go on and on, lets just say life really is not worth living any more. When Tony Blair down graded cannabis to class C it encouraged me it was relatively safe. Now I wish he would reclassify skunk to class A as I feel it should be, cannabis is not what it used to be, skunk is at least ten times stronger, it is just too strong. I have learnt from experience the hard way and now my life is over, yet unfortunately I am still alive, I am only 26. I feel I have gone totally mad, my personality has been completely burnt away, I am like a vegetable with slurred speech, my brain is burnt out and totally damaged. I stopped a long time ago and have not recovered. Life used to be ok. Thanks to skunk it is now torture and I wish I was no more.

iRuleThisForum

Joined: 23 Jul 2004

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:38 am

Post subject:

I suppose you wouldn't recommend any use of cannabis or you think it's ok to smoke a little?

Scolls

Joined: 05 Aug 2005

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:48 am

Post subject: Re: 1st cannabis skunk death but still living

braindamaged wrote:

Thanks for a very eloquent post!
If YOUR brain "has completely turned to mush"... and you post as well as that, then I'm afraid the rest of us have even more mushed brains by comparison! Razz

But tell me, since you've smoked such a helluva lot of cannabis:
1) Can you tell me where skunk comes from?
2) Can you describe it to me?
3) How did you smoke it? (Method of preparation)

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