Cannabis & Schizophrenia

In this article, researchers were looking on the effects of cannabis on the memory and decision taking impacts to find a relationship between cannabis and schizophrenia. They found a relationship between the cannabis and schizophrenia effects and it was a special effect that seem to confuse the transmitter signal in the brain. This confusion is more likely to affect the memory and decision taking because the brain requires these signals to make good decision and remember the information. In fact, to have these brain problem you must consume a lot and in a certain way abuse of drugs so it doesn’t make drugs bad, but in a certain way, if consumers are not careful, it can become a serious problem.

References
Kucewicz, M. T. et al. Dysfunctional Prefrontal Cortical Network Activity and Interactions following Cannabinoid Receptor Activation. Journal of Neuroscience, published online October 25, 2011.


Zamberletti, E., Rubino, T. and Parolaro, D. The endocannabinoid system and schizophrenia: integration of evidence. Current Pharmaceutical Design, published online June 7, 2012.

Marijuana: anger, aggression and delinquency

Cannabis is related to delinquency and aggression as many studies have proved. Not only the action is illegal but cannabis increase aggression and other delinquencies in other countries where cannabis has been legalized as for example Netherlands. It has been proved that cannabis was also link with other ‘’drugs’’ as Tabaco and alcohol and young people are more likely to try it because is it kind of cool to try do something illegal. Also, the contact with black market world open their mind about delinquency and drug consumers are more likely to do illegal action when they are in interaction with people in this domain.

http://www.examiner.com/article/marijuana-anger-aggression-and-delinquency

Relationship between cannabis and other criminal activities and behaviors.

Scientists have conducted a research to analyses relationship between cannabis and other criminal activities and behaviors. Researchers wanted to establish not only the criminal activities and behaviors but also the relationship between cannabis and school achievement. Many other tests have been created before and it seems like the relationship was not existing but in this study, researcher found other results. No only they concluded that young marijuana user had trouble in school achievement later in their life. Also they found that young marijuana user were more likely to commit criminal action as for example theft, vandalism, assault and suicide later in their life. They are also more likely to have a circle of friends using drugs or doing criminal activities. They normally also have a bad vision of school, they don’t see the importance of academic results and they have an increase of risk taking, sexual behavior problem, self-deviance and violence.

J S Brook, E B Balka, and M Whiteman.  The risks for late adolescence of early adolescent marijuana use. American Journal of Public Health October 1999: Vol. 89, No. 10, pp. 1549-1554.

The constant push for medicinal help

Again we see the fight for medicinal marijuana but a recent post on Huff Politics by Robin Wilkey comes at this fight from a different angle. We see the fight from a Utah state rep. who has been supporting Hope 4 Children with Epilepsy a group fighting for the medical use of cannabis oil for children with epilepsy. The post also tells the story of a mother in Utah with a severly epileptic son who once hated the thought of giving marijuana derivatives was crazy until she saw amazing results on other children. She has even had thoughts of packing up her family and moving to Colarado where her son could have the legal medical assistance that could help him.
The full post can be found here.

A Quick Downward Spiral

Most recently on google news there was an article posted from the Daily Mail by Alison Smith Squire titled "Think Cannabis is harmless? It Drove This Grammar School Boy Insane - Then Killed Him". It brings around the negative side of marijuana and tells the story of a young boy who committed suicide. His doctors blame the suicide on his marijuana use.

The link can be found here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2463582/Effects-cannabis-drove-Matthew-Leahy-insane-killed-him.html