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Ursprungligen postat av HrGrand
Så ett oregelbundet rekreationellt bruk påverkar tankeverksamheten på lång sikt? Källa på det tack.
Okej, då kan jag gå till DSM-IV TR som är den samlade listan över alla psykiska sjukdomar som ges ut av auktoriteten APA (och som även är kompatibel med FN's variant ICD). Söker jag på Cannabis så finner jag följande sjukdomstillstånd som är direkt applicerbara på denna drog:
Cannabis
305.20 Abuse
304.30 Dependence
292.89 -Induced Anxiety Disorder
292.11 -Induced Psychotic Disorder, With Delusions
292.12 -Induced Psychotic Disorder, With Hallucinations
292.89 Intoxication
292.81 Intoxication Delirium
292.9 -Related Disorder NOS
Åtminstone en av dessa lämnar men som kan vara bestående, nämligen 292.89. Här är en länk till ytterligare information om denna diagnos:
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/hppd.htm
Observera att källan inte är nån random anti-drog-sida typ Föräldrar Mot Narkotika, utan ett direkt citat ur DSM-IV TR.
Det finns även effekter som inte direkt kan kallas för psykisk sjukdom. Cannabisrökning påverkar ju synapserna (mellanrummen mellan hjärncellerna) och försämrar hjärnsignalernas förmåga att fortplanta sig mellan dem.
Heavy Marijuana Use Linked to Brain Damage
News Article
March 6, 2002
Researchers report that chronic users of marijuana suffer memory loss and attention problems that can affect their work, their life, and their ability to learn. However, a medical expert not involved in the study questioned the findings and whether the alleged adverse impact of marijuana is really there, which is indicative of the controversy surrounding the drug.
The findings are published in the current Journal of the American Medical Association. The study was based on patients seeking help for marijuana dependence at clinics in Seattle, Farmington, Connecticut, and Miami, between 1997 and 2000.
Fifty-one people were examined who had been using marijuana regularly for an average of 24 years. Also, 51 short-term users and 33 nonusers were included as controls for comparison purposes in the research. "Long-term users ... performed significantly less well on tests of memory and attention than nonuser controls and shorter-term users with a mean of 10 years' use," the study said.
On a verbal learning test "long-term users recalled significantly fewer words than either shorter-term users or controls; there was no difference between shorter-term users and controls. Long-term users showed impaired learning, retention and retrieval compared with controls," the study said.
The study's authors, including Nadia Solowij at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues with the Marijuana Treatment Project Research Group said the findings confirmed and expounded upon previous findings of cognitive impairments among chronic users. "For habitual users, the kinds of impairments observed in this study have the potential to impact academic achievements, occupational proficiency, interpersonal relationships and daily functioning," said the study.
However, in an editorial in the same issue, Harrison Pope of Harvard Medical School said "a recent meta-analysis of neuropsychological studies of long-term marijuana users found no significant evidence for deficits in seven of eight ... ability areas and only a small effect size for the remaining area of learning."
He said in a separate statement that the study does not explore whether the heavy users may have been taking other drugs that could have accounted for the deficits uncovered, or whether they might have been suffering from anxiety or depression that could cause the problems noted.
"Another recent study from our laboratory ... found virtually no significant differences between 108 heavy cannabis users and 72 controls -- screened to exclude those with current psychiatric disorders, medication use, or any history of significant use of other drugs or alcohol -- on a battery of ten neuropsychological tests after 28 days of supervised abstinence from the drug," he said.
Pope, the director of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, added: "The safest thing to say at this point is that the jury is still out on the question of whether long-term marijuana use causes lasting impairment in brain function."
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Ursprungligen postat av HrGrand
Här implicerar du att jag lider av ett missbruk, vilket inte är sant och väldigt ohyfsat att påstå detta trots att jag gång på gång påpekat det felaktiga i ditt påstående.
Finns det nån mer typisk klyscha än att höra en knarkare eller nån som är på väg in i ett beroende förneka detta faktum. Som svar skickar jag för ovanlighetens skull en mycket talande låttext; Not an Addict (artist: K's choise):
Breathe it in and breathe it out
And pass it on, it's almost out
We're so creative, so much more
We're high above but on the floor
It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side
The deeper you stick it in your vein
The deeper the thoughts, there's no more pain
I'm in heaven, I'm a god
I'm everywhere, I feel so hot
It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side
I'm not an addict (maybe that's a lie)
It's over now, I'm cold, alone
I'm just a person on my own
Nothing means a thing to me
(Nothing means a thing to me)
It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side
I'm not an addict (maybe that's a lie)
Free me, leave me
Watch me as I'm going down
Free me, see me
Look at me, I'm falling and I'm falling.
It is not a habit, it is cool I feel alive I feel...
It is not a habit, it is cool I feel alive
It's not a habit, it's cool, I feel alive
If you don't have it you're on the other side
I'm not an addict (maybe that's a lie)
I'm not an addict...
