On: U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and...

[yhoneycomb]

It’s not even anecdotal. The relative risk for developing schizophrenia for cannabis smokers vs non cannabis smokers is 2.3. This means that you are 2.3 times more likely to develop schizophrenia if you smoke cannabis.

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4988731/

With that said, I think it should be legal. I just think people shouldn’t downplay the risks.

[bigfudge → yhoneycomb]

Reporting relative odds or risks without a baseline is very misleading. The absolute risk in either case is still very low. People aren't downplaying risks.. they are setting them in a proper context (where other legal recreational drugs cause substantially more harm).

[cma → yhoneycomb]

> This means that you are 2.3 times more likely to develop schizophrenia if you smoke cannabis.

Unless unless causation goes wholly or partially the opposite way (more likely to smoke cannabis if you are already predisposed to schizophrenia).

[mirimir → cma]

Or you smoke it because it ameliorates your symptoms.

[yhoneycomb → cma]

That's a huge stretch, but whatever.

[sitkack → yhoneycomb]

Schizophrenia is an imbalance in the polyphony of minds occupying our heads. Our minds and bodies take training to pilot properly. If we want to have agency, we need to be methodical and purposeful in what we do and don't vastly surpass our current limits. You can't go squat 400 lbs w/o training. The same goes for mind altering substances.

[adrianN → sitkack]

I don't think anybody knows what Schizophrenia is exactly.